And That Is That

Beach Week with Occasional Breaks for a Dance Thing came to an end and turned out to be the best one yet. I mean, thanks to the pandemic, we've only had two of them and one of them was in Full Pandemic Mode (as opposed to this thing where we pretend there isn't still a pandemic), so of course it was the best one, but WHATEVER.

It was a good week.

There was much beaching and much dancing. For the sake of not forgetting how all that dancing turned out, here's Alexis' results:

• Solo - 4th
• Jazz - 6th
• Contemporary - 4th
• Line Jazz - 1st
• Acro - 3rd
• Tap - 8th (highest scoring tap group of the week)
• Hip Hop - ::sad trombone::
• Contemporary - Judge's Award, 5th
• Lyrical - 7th

For all of those group dances, they basically compete against themselves and the other teams from their studio, so yeah. They done good.

Except for that Acro thing. The studio is a studio that is very good at Acro, so that should generally land at the very top of the heap. Every time Alexis' team has done that dance this season, it's been flawless. AND THEN THERE WAS NATIONALS. If it could go wrong? It did. There was a person who fell out of her handstand, for example. That particular person could probably play a game of checkers while in a handstand, so it was very shocking. There was also a couple of people who completely blew a tumbling pass that was supposed to be synchronized and then they fought about it off to the side AND WE COULD ALL HEAR THEM and woooooweeeeee were they an unusual level of chaotic.

Alexis is bitter about the whole thing. She's especially bitter because even with a long list of mistakes, they took third. That means the difficulty was high enough to win all sorts of things, if only they had executed.

I will be hearing about that whole thing for months. Yay?

The other weird thing that happened was that Line Jazz thing. It wasn't weird for being oddly performed, though. It was actually REALLY good (... obviously. It did get 1st place.) It was weird because it's the dance that has basically the whole competitive team in it and we do that again? Large groups? I'm talking 89 kids on stage together. After 2+ years of avoiding large groups, it was weird seeing it again. We're two weeks out now, so it's safe to say we didn't end up with a COVID outbreak as a result, but it is still a bit disconcerting.

Also disconcerting is the fact that my child is not a Janet Jackson fan. The Line Jazz thing was a Janet compilation and I was all, "RESPECT YOUR ELDERS" and made Alexis watch a few videos. To say she was unimpressed would be an understatement and WHERE DID I GO WRONG? Seriously, how do you not love Rythym Nation? I know the answer to that because Alexis has explained it to me 15 times, but that doesn't make any of it any more acceptable.

And with that, we shall be holding a week-long Janet appreciation camp at my house. It will be all Janet all the time. Either the girls will learn to show a little respect or I'm going to have a great week of bopping while they look at me annoyed. I win regardless.

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[Christine]

And I just went down a Janet Jackson rabbit hole...Miss Jackson if you're nasty!