Ballet Memories

Ballet

My older daughter and I both share a love for dance, so we spent spare moments watching ballet movies like Billy Elliot and Turning Point while I was at her house for a week.  She has Netflix so she had quite a few dance movies available, both the fictitious ones and the documentary ones. We’ve both taken ballet in our past. I didn’t even start ballet classes until I was 21 so I didn’t get to take it for more than a few years. Then my daughter took ballet in San Luis Obispo, CA for a while, but college became her priority after a point. The documentary about the Joffrey Ballet also included some modern dance segments with Twyla Tharp and other choreographers. I took modern dance in college. My college only offered modern, jazz and folk dancing and I took all of them. I took belly dancing on the side, but nowadays some colleges offer that as well.

Here she is with baby, hubby and son.



My daughter only a month and a half after giving birth to her second child.



Dance Shop

Yesterday I took a walk down memory lane when we visiting the local dance shop. The owner didn't recognize me until I jogged her memory. Then again she probably hasn't seen me in 10 years. I started going there before I got married, so it was about 30 years ago. It's really something that a small business in a small town can hang in there in this economy. But I also felt bad that I never made a name for myself there. One of my students went on to open a world dance studio. One of my ballet teachers went back to college and became a psychologist and moved back east. Seems everyone has done something with their lives except me.