Dancin' Through the Pages

Last, last weekend (well Friday and Saturday actually) my ballet studio held its spring recital. This year, instead of doing a full length ballet, we did a themed recital with lots of different dances all based on the theme "Dancin' Through the Pages." So, each dance represented a book, like Don Quixote, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Little Miss. Muffet, or Guess How Much I Love You. The only exception was our "big girl" piece, which was called "The Classics Revisited" and not really based on anything.

"The Classics Revisited" was actually really cool. It was an almost 15 minute, three movement piece, done to Pachelbel's Canon, the third movement to Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, and Black Violin's Brandenburg (a crazy hip-hopized version of Brandenburg No. 3's second movement). See the videos below for the soundtrack. I apologize in advance for Brandenburg's crazy music video. 

  Pachelbel's Canon                                   Brandenburg No. 3 Mvt. 3

 

Brandenburg

Anyway, it was really cool. And we got to wear pretty costumes.

My other role in the recital was as Little Miss. Muffet. I got to wear a killer wig. (literally killer... I (and everyone else who got to witness the epic event) almost died from laughter the first time I tried to wear that thing. It was crazy. And it almost flew off my head while I was turning. But a slight haircut and several (hundred) well placed bobby pins later and it was much more wearable.

My spider was pretty darn adorable too.