Ballet Petite Storyboxes

What a fun day of production at Ballet Petite! We spent the afternoon bringing boxes and costumes to our Production Warehouse to be refreshed for the start of the new school year. The company car was fully loaded with stories, stuffed animals, and costumes up to wazoo!

Its always interesting to walk down the street carrying an armful of tutus and other frilly costumes-- people don't know quite what to make of it!

Keep Dancing,
Sophie

American Girl Beauties

This week at Ballet Petite McLean our American Girl Camp is focused on the character Molly! The ballerinas are having a lot of fun dancing to period music, and are really getting into the excitement of Molly’s world. Today the girls painted their set and it looks absolutely beautiful! I knew we had wonderful ballerinas, but who knew we had such wonderful graphic artists as well!!

Happy painting!

Elizabeth

Broadway Babies

Our Broadway Baby Camp is doing - every little girl's favorite - Annie! They look so sweet in their red satin dresses with the white collars. I know from experience that this camp can be particularly difficult to teach-- the students are expected to learn the music, lyrics, and choreography for THREE songs! At age 3, if they get 4-8 bars/song, I consider it a success!

It truly is a joy to watch them learn, though. They go home singing the songs and come back the next day dancing the steps!

Keep Dancing,
Sophie

Fairy Fun

Yesterday afternoon we had a fairy dust spill in our petite boutique! It wasn’t anyone’s fault, of course! The lid wasn’t on very well, and so when it was lifted from the top it opened and spilled! There was fairy dust everywhere!!! It was in ballerina’s hair, and on ballerina shoes, and it was all over Miss Leslie! As she tried to clean it up she begin to look more and more like the Tin Man from the Wizard of Oz (it was silver fairy dust, of course!).

I have since taken the faulty bottle of fairy dust off of display and am keeping it at the front desk. It’s never a bad idea to have some extra fairy dust at the front desk (this way ballerina’s who miss their mom can get an extra fairy kiss, just in case they need it!).

Have a fairy-filled day!
Elizabeth

Welcome Neighbors!

Ballet Petite McLean would like to officially welcome our new next-door neighbors! The library! Welcome to McLean Square Dolley Madison Public Library! I am sure all the parents of our ballerinas are thankful to have you so close by! In addition, I’m sure all of our ballerinas will begin to look forward to going to the library after class. What a special treat; now all of our ballerinas can check out their own copy of the story they hear in ballet class each day!

Happy Reading!

Elizabeth

Week 2- Off to a Great Start!

Week 2 of summer camps have just begun, and we're off to a terrific start! This week introduces our newest camp, Got Hip Hop?, and BOY is it popular! This camp runs from 9-3 each day for our 5-7 year olds, and it is nearly filled even though we've never run it before!

Additionally, this week we're running our "Broadway Baby" camp for 3-5 years for the first time this summer. The kids are doing "Annie"-- ALWAYS a huge hit!

Keep Dancing,
Sophie

End of First Week of Summer Camps!

Well, the first week of summer camps at Ballet Petite is drawing to a close. I can hear "A Whole New World" drifting through the walls as our Happily Ever After Princess Camp performs their ballet version of "Aladdin." What fun! We are all relaxed and excited and looking forward to week 2!

Our summer classes in Bethesda start tomorrow. Boy, are they popular this year! Almost all of our Session A classes are booked!

Keep Dancing,
Sophie