6/14/09

Thing of Beauty

Posted by Kat at 6:33 PM

This year's ballet performance of Deliver Us, depicting the life of Moses, was truly beautiful. Of course my favorite part were the lambs but that's a personal bias since my little lamb was part of the dance. She did wonderful and had so much fun dancing. My favorite part was the finale when she and her class came out to bow and she put her hand over her eyes trying so hard to find us over and over again.

This company amazes me with the quality of all the dances and how they are able to pull you in to their story. At one point, I thought I might have to leave due to their excellent storytelling but for that I will have to take you back in time. It was sometime after I had my miscarriage and we were watching the movie Prince of Egypt. I was enjoying the movie thoroughly until we got to the scene where the mother must let her baby go and she is singing her sadly sweet song. I began to cryat this point because I had to let my baby go as well. This is a wonderful movie that I avoid for this reason along with a couple of others. Back to the ballet. The dancers began to dance as slaves with giant men carrying whips pretending to beat them and I realized that the music was familiar but I couldn't place it. Until they began the song the mother sang in Prince of Egypt and the mother came out giving up her baby in the most beautiful dance that showed her pain of giving up her son. Out came the tears but with my pregnancy hormones raging through my body, I could barely contain myself. I was thankful when the song ended and the ballet moved on. I enjoyed it immensely even with the tears but I may skip over that part when I get my copy of the performance. Now let's get on with the photos.

Getting ready!


Just before the show!

Look closely to find her looking for us.
Her wonderful teacher


Aunt and soon to be Uncle


Me and my lamb


Us and our lamb


Grandma and Grandpa


Close ups with her lamb


Poor Grandpa


Wearing Grandma's glasses


The family


My sister in law and fiance


Playing games


Sweet couple


Reading with Grandma


The Deep Thinker

Grandpa sitting with his lamb

 

1 Comment:

  1. WWJ said...
    June 17, 2009 at 3:07 PM  
    Great pics! And you look adorable in your mommy dress. I wish we had gone. It sounds like they go all out with this dance company. I know the song from the Prince of Egypt made you a little sad, but did it also feel like a nudge? Like, don't forget about me, mom? I've experienced something like that recently and it actually made me feel good. I could be way off. Hope I'm not making you feel bad. The pics of your family were great and I love the one of Tiffany scanning the crowd for you guys.

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