Ballet Recital

A few weeks ago I had a ballet recital at The Civic Arts Plaza.   Ballet started a long time ago in Italy in the late fifteenth-century. However, ballet became popular in France and the first school for ballet started in France by King Louis XIV.  Therefore, all the ballet steps, moves, and jumps are in French. I have learned many of the steps, but not all of them.  In ballet, a female dancer is called a ballerina and a male dancer is called a ballet dancer. In our dance class we had 9 ballerinas and 1 ballet dancer.  Ballerinas usually wear a short tutus, tights, and have there hair neatly pinned up in a bun. 

The dance we did for the recital was to the Fire Ball Polka (Feurfest) by Josef Strauss. To make sure that everyone knew where to go on stage, we had a dress rehearsal before the recital.  During the rehearsal I got my costume.  My costume was blue, with white lace, puffy sleeves and a flower attached to the waist.  My hair piece was a crown with flowers and blue and white ribbons on the side. 

During the recital I had to sit in the dressing room until it was my turn to dance.  In the dressing room there were a lot of yellow lights and mirrors.  There were also many other dancers also waiting their turn to dance, fixing their hair, putting on makeup and getting into their costumes.

Here is some photos from the rehearsal.



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Do you do Ballet?

Have you been in any recitals?