Big Bee's ballet school conducted an open house on Saturday morning, which means that parents were invited into the ballet class to watch an exclusive performance by the little ballerinas. Having learned ballet since she was 4, Big Bee can now perform a dance with a little storyline on her own. Today's solo performance consisted of a 3-minute segment where all the girls had to perform an umbrella dance on their own, with the ballerina pirouetting in the rain, shivering gracefully with cold (yes, that is possible in the dance!) and then with facial features and body expression lighting up considerably when she saw the umbrella. Facial and body expressions are now an integral part of their progress. I am so proud to see Big Bee smiling sweetly and performing confidently in front of the audience, remembering all her actions, although I know that the perfectionist her was probably overly anxious to ensure everything from her smile, expression and dance steps were flawless. 
Turning on her ballerina stage smile
The ballerinas in the "pink" group. There are 4 colour groups of girls: blue, pink, white and purple
Foundation of en pointe, or "tippy toes", in kiddy ballet terminology
Little Bee had to skip her Saturday school to be part of jie-jie's cheerleading team. And true enough, after Big Bee's solo performance, she clapped heartily with us and kept calling "Jie jie! Jie jie!". When Big Bee skipped back to the group of ballerinas sitting on the floor after her performance, Little Bee was so proud of her sister that she kept calling her, despite us hushing her, and then slowly inched towards her to pat her jie-jie's tulle skirt, stroking her jie-jie's leotard, quietly uttering "Jie-jie, jie-jie" repeatedly with her signature giant beaming grin, her big eyes glowing with utmost adoration for her sister! Eventually, she laid her head on Jie-jie's lap, then shoulder, and Big Bee finally gave in to her little sister's idolation with a soft proud grin and a few tight hugs for Little Bee. How heartwarming to see both sisters hugging on the wooden dance floor!
Jie-jie's enthusiastic cheerleader!
Big Bee with her ballet buddies, Phoebe and Jessica
5 comments:
i like the black & white & sepia toned pictures. v well taken!
Next time, don't forget to invite us! We want to see big bee's performance.
She look great in the pic! :-)
viv: Thanks! Amazing what a bit of photo editing can do huh!
Fio: Heh, ok, will tell you guys next time, then Big Bee will be really stressed leh. Will show you video when you come my house instead la! Hmm...I do think Big Bee is putting on a wee bit of weight recently!! Like mummy, like daughter!!
I love the first pic - so artistic!
So heartwarming to see the 2 girls being so close to each other! :)
ym: Thanks!! I had to crop the first pic and edit it a bit ;) Yeah, it's fun when they grow up loving each other...although they do have their fair share of catfights too *headache*
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