Spare Floor & Poster

This past Sunday the dance teams performed in the annual street fair.

Then they went to hang out at the studio's street booth.

In front of the booth were 2 spare bits of floor from the studio so the kids could show off, do dance stuff, and hand out flyers.

Daya enjoyed handing out flyers:

I left her there to do her thing, and she had rehearsal after.

When Daya got home I opened the door to see this:

Ms. Rysa gave Daya one of the spare floor bits.  Daya asked if she could have it...and she got it!

There has never been a child so excited about a piece of spare floor.

Daya carried it home on the subway by herself, (it is big and weighs around 30lbs!)  so now she has a good story about Carrying Weird Things on the train and getting really strange looks from everyone.

She is very proud of this.

As soon as she got home she scrubbed that floor front and back, put her jazz shoes on, and practiced turns.

WHY DID SHE WANT THE FLOOR?

This is a good question since we have wood floors and that's what is in dance studios right?

The spare floor is made of something called marley and is (apparently) better for practicing turns because it is less slick than wood.  The studio doesn't use rosin on shoes because it messes up the floor.  One of the floors there is wood but the other floor is this marley stuff which is apparently special dance floor material or something.

Now Daya has a marley floor from the studio to practice turns.

*****

I have been on painting break since May was so crazy.  I did 2 paintings and a poster for the studio.  It was ;printed on metal and was presented by the teachers to the owner as a 10th anniversary gift.

The image was a collaboration.   I added some design input and put the whole thing together in photoshop.  It was a lot of work but it came out nice and they love it.