On Thursday, Michelle was out with her son to celebrate his birthday, so she gave me the task of taking over her class and teaching them without any help from any teacher. I led them in a warm-up and stretch, and then taught them a combo I learned from YouTube to "Runaway" by Aurora. She told me to give them a hard combo to challenge them, but they still kept up pretty well. Below is a video of us doing the combo during class.
On Saturday, I helped Nina teach her 3-5 year old tap and ballet combined class. She told me I had to put on my Disneyland face and be super energetic and cheerful for the children, even if it was early in the morning and I was tired. Honestly, it was a lot more fun than I thought it was going to be. 3-5 is a very entertaining age group to teach, and some of the kids were very friendly to me. I helped lead the warm-up next to Nina, and then we ran their recital dance. I didn't do much during this part, since I didn't know the choreography and therefore couldn't help do it with them on the side, but I did help guide them to the right dots to stand on and tried to help them form a circle, even when one of the kids refused to move at all. (It was actually one of Michelle's sons, which is hilarious to me because she breathes dance but her son won't dance when he's supposed to). After tap, we taught them ballet and then finished the class with freeze dance.
One of the main projects I worked on this week was the backstage binders for the recital. For the show, we need one binder on each side of the stage that includes the show order for dress rehearsal, show 1, and show 2, as well as the lineup of each dancer for each dance in order. It was a tedious task but it was necessary for the rehearsals and shows to run smoothly.
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