First Dance

My poor baby toes hurt. I think the seams on my tights were in the wrong place or something. So anyway, today we started dancing! I wore my leotard and tights under normal clothes so I wouldn't have to wrestle into my tights in front of the other girls. Everyone else did the same thing, and for the same reason, which I thought was funny. Basically squeezing into tights we bought that were already a size too big was pretty traumatic for all of us. Maybe since it happened to all of us, it's normal? We'll say yes.

I was a little nervous about my tattoo being out in the open-I don't much like it anymore, so I usually hide it with my clothes or my hair, but nobody mentioned it. I was right up front, too, so I know they saw it. I'm just glad nobody commented.

First, we did some posture exercises on the floor. It seemed like that went on for a long time. Then we did some Pilates (also to help with posture--Rene doesn't want any slumpy dancers).

After that, we started barre work! Our instructor got all mixed up a few times, so it was confusing figuring out the order in which we were supposed to do the exercises. I just slyly watched the girls on either side of me...if I was wrong, at least I wouldn't be wrong alone!

Then, we got in front of the mirrors for some "court dance". Only after we did court dance did we learn the basic ballet positions (feet only, though she says there are arm ones too). We learned to bow, which was quite elaborate and ridiculous, and thankfully ran out of time before she could make us do it to music! Now my poor baby toes hurt, just in case you forgot.