The Furse Family: recital

Thursday, May 27, 2010

Dance is over for the season!

I have been really horrible on keeping up with Allison’s dancing, so I am going to make up now by doing one really big post about it! :)

Allison is a WONDERFUL dancer! She has been taking dance from Misty (at Ultimate Dance Etc in Saratoga Springs) for 4 years. We started her dancing to improve her coordination – she used to walk into walls – and she has blossomed beautifully! Allison definitely has a natural talent and a love of dancing and I hope she never stops dancing.

This year she was on the Extreme Team for the competition season. They competed in both a jazz and lyrical routine and won lots of trophies including two 3rd place, one 2nd place, SEVEN 1st places and an Overall Jr. Amateur 1st Place Grand Champion! What an awesome season!

Allison also had the opportunity this year to do a solo for competition. She competed in 3 of the 5 different competitions. For solos, the trophies are given out kind of like a beauty pageant – with attendants instead of places and the highest place being literally crowned Queen. In Allison’s first competition, she won 2nd attendant (or 3rd place), in her second competition, she won 1st attendant, and in her final competition she was crowned a Queen, with tiara and all! We are so proud of her!!

Catie turned 5 this fall and the rule in our house is that once you turn 5 you can start dance. Of course, Catie couldn’t wait to start dancing like her big sister. She has gone to her ballet/jazz class all year long and was able to be a part of the big recital at the end of the year. She looked so cute!! Everyone in the house (even Allison) agreed that Catie’s costume was the cutest one we have EVER seen!

Here are some pictures from the competition season and some videos from the year end recital.

I hope you like it as much as we did!!

My Beautiful Catie!