Dance Blathering

A post in which I blather on yet more about boring dance stuff but there are pictures and a video this time.

1. Ailey refunded us.  They are very nice and I want Daya to go back next year.

2. SAI.  Summer Arts Institute.  NYC DOE offers a REALLY GREAT 5 week summer intensive for the arts, including dance... it's like a gifted program for the arts.  Actually it's kind of like the Governor's Honors program I attended one summer when I was in high school for art. 4 kids from the studio went last year and loved it.

It is free.
5 weeks of all-day dance wonderfulness FOR FREE.
It isn't for beginners, it is for students who are accomplished in their art form.
We already submitted the application and the audition is end of next month.
Also, it is FREE.

3. Steps.  I refuse to pay for 2 3-week sessions of Steps because it is stupid-expensive but one session is ok, I guess, if Daya doesn't go to SAI.  Audition is in a couple of weeks.

4.  Ballet Acedemy East:  It would be AWESOME if Daya got into SAI and BAE because... she can do BOTH.  The schedules don't overlap.  So that's 7 weeks of summer dance taken care of, she just has to get into both programs.

5. We couldn't audition for SAB again this year even though I paid for an audition because it was on the Philly weekend.  That would have been nice but she can audition for that again next year too.

As part of the audition process for a few of these programs, we have to submit pictures.
Here they are!

ALSO AND THIS IS IMPORTANT  this past Tuesday right before Jazz I was in the studio with Daya and she tried to teach me how to do some kind of turn, which I did... and she said, "Actually that was pretty good!"

I did a good spinny-turn!! I will brag about this forever.