I really like the costumes for the Wade In The Water dance. They look amazing and I think they'll look great when we perform the dance. I love the flowiness of the skirts and I love the leotards!! I really like twirling and leaping in the costume. :) They look very professional and performance-ready. :) We all look like a very professional dance company. :P :D

This is the only picture I could find that looked like the costume

Recently, I've had a dance performance with my dance program out of school called B.A.X. We performed at L.I.U, in the Kumble Theatre. The stage was very big and there was seating for 300 people. It was extremely fun and I enjoyed it a lot!! I really loved performing in front of everyone, showing them what we've learned. It was the 25th anniversary for B.A.X, called the B.A.X Gala. I'm in DPW 1, Dance Performance Workshop 1. There are 3 DPW's and we got to choreograph duets/trios with the other DPW's in between the group dances. B.A.X also has a program called AcroBax, which is acrobatics and I really loved their performance and I was thinking of maybe joining AcroBax because I love tumbling and gymnastics and thats included in that class. :)

This is the front of the Kumble Theatre at L.I.U

Broadway show

Recently I went to see the Broadway show Matilda. It was really good if you ever want to see it. Anyway, the show was mostly made up of acting and singing, although there was dancing in it too while they sung. Their movements were mostly made up of hand gestures and smaller movements than we do in class. They were in costume even though it was just normal school clothes, and their performance skills were incredibly good and dancers have those performing skills too while performing onstage.

Winter Arts Festival

In the Winter Arts festival in february we performed "I see fire." I kind of liked this dance because I liked the partner work and some of the repetition. Something that bothered me (this isn't about the dance itself) is the fact that we had to do it onstage with the other 7th grade class and with the 8th graders. I felt very squished and that I didn't have enough space to fully extend some of the movements. Comment what you thought about the winter arts festival, if you would have maybe liked it better with just our class, instead of with the other classes. :)

dance and gymnastics

Dance and gymnastics are similar and different in different ways.I do gymnastics and a lot of the time in gymnastics we work on perfecting form. This is similar to dance because in dance i also have to work on my form and technique. both gymnastics and some dances include pointed toes and a straight body. however dance and gymnastics are also different in some ways. in gymnastics there is mostly only one way to do a specific trick, and in some dance, like modern dance there are multiple ways to interpret something.Dance and gymnastics have many more similarities and differences too!

in this example you can see pointed toes

here too you see pointed toes. both this image and the image above are of similar tricks so this shows how they are similar, but you can see a slight difference in their form.

which dance did you like better the joint dance or muscle dance?

In dance so far we have done two dances. The joint dance and muscle dance. The joint dance was a lot faster and had sharper movements. In addition the music we used for the joint dance had screaming in the background, which i personally liked. However the muscle dance is slower and a little more flowy, if you know what i mean when i say 'flowy'. Personally i liked the muscle dance better beacause i like the beginning where our arms go up on our shoulders and out to each side and then we straighten our arms up into the air. But i would love to know what dance you liked better! so you can comment which one you liked.

BAX

In maybe 1st grade i started doing ballet with my best friend until i was about 7 or 8. I then found this place called BAX and started with a modern dance. Then i got invited to a slightly more advanced and bigger commitment class called DPW 1, which stands for dance performance workshop 1. There are three DPW's and you have to get invited to them, most people stay in each DPW for 1-3 years. This is my second year in DPW 1. I hope that after this semester i get invited to DPW 2.
Personally I think BAX has a great community and a awesome place to dance. :)