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My kid is a pro; the show must go on
Topic Started: May 12 2007, 03:23 PM (350 Views)
DivaDeb
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I'm spent.

This is spring ballet time for my daughter's company. Last night, right before the finale, barefoot for a modern piece, she ran her toe into a stage weight and broke it. It hurts. We iced all night, and taped it splinted to the toe next to it, and she danced 7 numbers, two of them in pointe shoes.

She jumped, she turned, she lept. She was a graceful, smiling luminous thing on the stage. I was truly the only one who could tell what agony she was in, and for that, I am so proud of her.

She's only 12. I am so impressed by her courage. Now I'm going to go pamper her to pieces...she's earned some slave labour.

Oh...she just got a letter of acceptance for the Tulsa Ballet summer intensive program, which is very special for her, it is three weeks in July of full day instruction from very fine teachers. Here is her audition...it's 14 minutes long, but it's very pretty ^_^

Ballet Audition Tape

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Piano*Dad
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That was a remarkable video. You must be so proud of her. That takes so much dedication, skill, concentration and plain hard work. She must be thrilled to get into the program.
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Congratulations to her and may she heal quickly. :)

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That's beautiful! Thanks for sharing :)

(love walking the line on the toes around 12:30----I'm happy if I can walk down a hallway without bumping into anything expensive :whome: )

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Deb --

How beautiful. Loved the pointe work.

R2 :smile:
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Wow, what a graceful, and strong! daughter you have!

I hope her toe heals quickly, to go on with the show, in pain, at age 12? She deserves a standing ovation!!

How long has she been doing pointe work? A British friend who lived here for awhile told me that she thought Japanese children were put into toe shoes at much too early of an age (I'm afriad now I don't remember what ages she told me about seeing.) Just curious.
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Optimistic
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Great performance, Merry!! My roommate, who was a dancer pretty much all of her life until graduate school, agrees! Unbelievable that it was done with a broken toe.
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DivaDeb
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thank you all!

ShiroKuro, her teachers are pretty conservative about when they let the dancers get their pointe shoes. It is more dependent on physical development and years of ballet training than age, of course, because there's quite a difference in physical development between kids these days, and they don't all start dancing at the same time.

Merry got her shoes when she was 10. She had been a serious student for five years at the time. They start them out very slowly, one relatively short pointe class a week in the beginning. It takes time to build strength and learn how to take care of the shoes and the feet inside them. The other thing that her teacher insists upon is that a dancer must be able to sew on her own ribbons, or she's not mature enough to be in pointe shoes yet. I think that is such a smart way to teach the kids responsibility, in an age where many of them get things handed to them on a silver platter from the time they're born. She sat down with Meredith, and showed her exactly how to find the right place for the ribbons to be, and the angle to sew, how to turn under the edges so they won't fray, how to glue the ends etc. Then she patiently sat there while Merry sewed them. That was the moment I knew we had chosen the right studio for her dance training. It was very clear to me then, that this woman, formerly a prima ballerina, was also a real teacher. I love that.
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Dewey
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Wow, that's the greatest Mother's Day gift I could ever imagine.

:thumb:
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Fantastic, Deb. Thanks for sharing.
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DivaDeb
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heh...I just realized a mistake I made, and it makes me feel like the Old Woman in the Shoe! Merry turned 13 two months ago. She would be horrified if she knew I had accused her of still being 12. Of course, I still occasionally write a check and, when dating it, start with "19"

:wacko:



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apple
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loved the story of the teacher and the ribbons..

how nice Deb

happy Mother's day
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MAGNIFICENT!!! My daughter is a ballerina, too. How wonderfully proud you must be!!

Last night was her gymnastics recital. She did a balance beam routine that incorporated a lot of moves and postures from her ballet studies. I was so proud, I was about to BURST!!! :)

Beautiful, Deb. Just beautiful! :clap: :clap: :clap:
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DivaDeb
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thanks apple, Happy mommy's day to you too!

Frank, that's so cool, wish I could have seen that.
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:) :) :)

Happy Mother's Day to you, and to all of the other great mothers, here. :)
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Mark
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Wonderful Deb!

Tell her congratulations from us!

Happy Mother's Day!

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