ballet

Jan 16 2012

Nutcracker

Catching up on some December posts….here is another event from last month.

We went to the San Francisco Nutcracker this year, and had a wonderful time!

This was our little one’s first time at the SF Ballet, she saw the San Jose version of the Nutcracker last year, after her first ballet last summer.

Here are some pics from our adventure.

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After the performance, madame felt like dancing…as did other kids we saw twirling out of the Opera House.

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We weren’t allowed to take pics during the performance of course, but you can watch it online or on dvd.

By jill • by Jill, The Kid, Time Capsule • 0 • Tags: , , , , ,

Dec 27 2010

The Nutcracker Ballet


“I was very fast, like a butterfly with his wings flapping trying to catch a necklace blowing in the wind!”
— Lucy, describing how fast she can run (I thought this description was awesome!)

Jill and I accompanied Lucy to her second ballet yesterday. (She attended her first ballet in May.) We were in the very first row, so Lucy had to sit in her mom’s lap in order to see over a partition that separated the audience from the the orchestra pit.

Despite this minor inconvenience, Lucy has a great time. Though she had to bury her eyes in her mom’s shoulder whenever the Mouse King appeared, she laughed at the little mice underlings and oohed and awed when she saw the dancers and various sets.

After the show, we walked across the street to the Christmas in the Park and Lucy got to play some games and ride a cat she dubbed “Wubie” on the merry-go-round.

Afterwards, we ended our day by hitting a Safeway for groceries. Check out our groovy shopping cart in the above pics.

Below are some pics from the San Jose Ballet website:

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By mike • by Mike, The Kid • 4 • Tags: , , , , , ,

May 31 2010

First Ballet

Our little girl went to her first ballet this weekend. I loved ballet when I was a kid, so this was a special moment for me. I was a bit teary-eyed when it started. It just hit me…I am with my baby…at her first ballet!

Lucy has recently started liking ballet, dancing around wearing her tutu, pretending she is Angelina Ballerina. So when the chance came to see a kid-centered ballet we took it.

The ballet we saw was the Ugly Duckling, featuring as many students as possible from the local ballet school, costumed as ducks, swans, flowers, cats, dogs, and chickens. The baby swan stole the show.

Madame behaved very well, applauding in all the right places, staying in her seat the whole time, and watching enraptured for much of it. Not bad for a 3 year old.

When I was a little girl I was obsessed with ballet, and remember asking my mom for ballet lessons…and her saying, ‘not ’til you’re 5′ (or was it 7? either way it seemed a long ways away.) And boy I held her to it!

I remember changing into my ballet clothes in the station wagon as my mom drove me to ballet from school. I remember watching the older girls in the advanced class taking pointe lessons, and dreaming of the day that would be me. I remember the wonder of seeing some of those same girls performing in the LA Ballet’s Nutcracker.

I don’t want or hope for madame to become a professional ballerina, that would be a hard life (low pay, constant aches and bruises and little time for anything else).

But I am happy that she likes ballet, and will be happy to see her studying it, and to take her to many more performances. And I can’t wait for the day when she will be the student up on stage for the first time taking her bows.

By jill • by Jill, The Kid, Time Capsule • 5 • Tags: , , , , , , ,