Kallsen started dance class today. All the girls are required to wear pink leotards and the boys have to wear black sweat pants and white t-shirts.They began with tap...in this picture you can see the white tap shoes that Kallsen is wearing. They worked on tap for about 15 minutes and then spent a half an hour working on ballet.
There are nine kids in the class. Eight girls and Kallsen is the only boy. He was fine with it and I think he really enjoyed the class.
This dance school is not a competitive dance school like most but a classical dance school. The owners and instructors are all former professional dancers. Foothills Dance Conservatory is a client of mine, that's how I met the folks that run the conservatory.
Most dance classes for kids are very competitive. This training is to teach kids to dance...the only competitiveness (according to other parents) comes when they do shows. All students are invited to audition. Several parents, who have older children that attend Foothills Dance, said that Kallsen is likely to get decent roles in productions because so few boys take dance.
I do hope he enjoys dance enough as he grows older to continue with taking these classes.
6 comments:
oh me too ad.......this is wonderful...I can hardly wait to hear about how he likes it and where it goes......I think it is just great!
I think it is cool that Kallsen is taking dance class!
That's great!! I'm interested in how you decided to put him in dance. I've thought about it for Davey. Let me know how it goes!
Absolutely wonderful. Good job Kallsen. My nephew enjoyed dance class quite a bit - and he was older when taking the classes. It was an activity that he truly enjoyed doing and was good at - and you could see the esteem grow as he was taking the class (he has/had always been a bit shy).
Sarah,
We decided because he is an active boy and he like to dance. The Dance Conservatory is a client of mine through the radio station. They promote their Christmas production with the station and we line it up during August for the promotions.
When I was talking with them a couple of weeks ago I thought I need to check into this for Kallsen.
After day one he liked it and this morning he asked if he could dance after school again today.
One thing we worry about as parents is will are son be made fun of because he is taking dance?
At this age, I don't think it matters as much as when boys get older. Hopefully Kallsen will enjoy it enough to want to stay with it and will have the esteem to not be bothered if others make fun.
If after this class is complete he is no longer interested, that's fine too.
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