Esther has been a member of the Boom Boom Dance Academy for the past 10 months. You may reasonably assume, if you have ever met Esther, that girlfriend loves herself a little bit of centre-stage. She is no wallflower. So I was surprised that she got so nervous before her performance. There were nerves to the point of feeling sick.
I watched her walk onto the stage for the first time with the rest of the coven for her 'little witch dance', I watched as she walked straight over to her dance teacher with a worried face and then I watched as her dance teacher ushered her immediately off the stage.
My first instinct was tears, my second fury (there have been several hundreds of $$$, yup hundreds, and a whole bucket of parental hours invested in the Boom Boom Dance Academy, not to mention how disappointed I knew Esther would be when she realised what she'd missed out on); but I have not spent my most recent night shifts watching Toddlers and Tiaras for nothing. I know what a stage-mother must do when her offspring baulks...yes reader, I dashed backstage and shoved Esther back on*.
She did me proud, and once she realised there was a buzz to be got from dancing in front of an audience there was no stopping her.
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| Make-up application, possibly Esther's favourite part of the show |
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| With her witchy BFF |
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The show Esther must go on! Taken from the wings. Stupid blogger randomly refusing to rotate my photos again, grrr. |
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| Talented little witch! |
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| Mermaid, far left |
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| Curtsey after being presented with her participation award <3 |
I have super cute film clips of Esther as witch and mermaid in her matinee performance but I'm jiggered if I can work out how to make them play on blogger. I am rather going off blogger...
*Esther was cajoled rather than threatened: true story!
So sorry I missed all this - was living it up in Perth. However, as Esther's underground stylist can I say the eco shirt for the makeup photo shoot is so - en trend! Mx
ReplyDeleteOh this made me laugh! Though I am saddened to hear that Toddlers and Tiaras has made it past North America and onto Aus. I swear Canadians aren't as crazy (unless it comes to hockey -- then the parents are insane). Sarah.
ReplyDeleteM-M, that shirt is getting a workout since its resurrection, she also wore it to her cowgirl assembly! Sarah, next winter she wants to play soccer, so I will shelve stage-mother and bring on soccer-mom...be afraid!
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