Concert

We brought Zerlynde to a concert organized by her dance school Acts Dance last Sunday. It was a two hour concert featuring various dances (ballet, tap, hip-hop, ballroom, groove) as well as violin and piano recitals performed by toddlers as young as 4 and adults as old as 60. The concert was held at the hours coinciding with Zerlynde’s usual naptime but she amazingly sat through the whole 2 hours wide awake! And each time the curtain went down, she would ask us the same question, “Where is chie chie?” [referring to the dancers] Both hubby and I were so wearied towards the end having had to reply her every 3 minute, telling her to wait and to be patient for the next act! Zuwern slept a little and was awake a little. He too seemed to enjoy the performances. Good thing the environment was “baby-friendly” we weren’t embarrassed when he occasionally shrieked in excitement.

Rachel the principal of the school is a really amazing woman, having single-handedly organized such a grand event involving so many performers, and towards a charitable cause too. It was no easy task indeed! Simply getting 20 toddlers to stand in line, in my opinion, is a real huge challenge, let alone getting them to dress up as fairies and swan princesses, at the same time dance in tip-toes and all in sync.

Albeit the performances are a bit amateurish, I am glad we took the afternoon off for this occasion. I sure hope the performances will inspire our little ballerina to continue dancing and will arouse enough curiosity in her to try out the piano and the violin quite soon.

Oh! I must add I was pleasantly surprised to hear the Latin version of Secret Garden’s Heartstrings which the Rhumba dancers used for their dance, and the rendition of Chopin’s Fantasie Impromptu by a 12 fingered pianist! Those were my treats.