Recital Round Two

Tonight was the second night of dress rehearsal for Saturday's recital. Just like last night I had to find a balance in my time between getting myself prepared to dance, as well as, getting my students prepared to dance. This is easily the most difficult issue I have encountered throughout this entire season. While being an assistant teacher of a competition level class is an important job, I also have to prepare myself for the dances that I preform in. I have learned that if I get myself ready to go ahead of time I then have more time to work with the 8 and under tap classes before their performance. Although I knew that this would most likely happen yet again, all of my little kids wanted me to play with them in the dressing room backstage in between their dances. Tonight's performance was very similar to last night in that the spacing of the girls was off. Even though tonight we marked the center of the stage for them as a reference to where they should stand, my younger kids still started off the dance standing too close to the left. Due to them starting too close to the left of the stage, spacing was off the entire dance. The older kids did better on spacing; however, still failed to begin the dance in the center of the stage. Hopefully through spending time working on this at practice over the next few they will nail their performance at recital on Saturday.