My School Dance

Okay, so I just had my school dance on Friday & it was really fun (especially because Rebekkah, one of my good friends from school came).
Anyway, Rylie got some good pictures. (Mom didn't get any good pictures - she got bad ones. lol)
I'll post as many as I can, but you know what happens when I try to put pictures on here. :) lol - again
I uploaded one - yay for me! :) This is Nick, slow dancing with himself...it was pretty funny. Many thanks to Rylie for getting this picture (she was our photography queen that night).

All right, on to picture #2...this is a picture of Whitney telling me (and Rebekkah, whom you can't see) about how we should protest...they were playing a Miley Cyrus song. :P

Whitney is in 8th grade and she hosts a Bible study at school. She's really nice, and everybody likes her! :)




Can I do a third picture? Let me see...yes, I can! :D
This is one of those bad pictures Mom got.

This is Soren...rather, half Soren.

What's with the tie, dude?

Okay, so I'm pretty pictured out. Enjoy! :D

I Have Not Written For the Longest Time...

Wow - I haven't written since the 1st of September!! WOW!! Sorry I've neglected it. During that time, I had my school dance, got an A+ on a really big English assignment, and so on and so forth. Anyway, let's start with my dance.

Rylie, Dad, Mom, and I arrived early so we could set up the decorations. Then Dad and Rylie left, but Mom stayed to chaperon. After 7:00, people started trickling in, and then all of a sudden - POOF! - tons of people showed up!
Mr. Harris, our principal, was playing songs for group dances. (Nope, no slow dances yet) Everyone was having a blast! I was jumping up and down with my friends.
Then Mr. Harris said, "I need a volunteer." So this guy named Nick volunteered. Then Mr. Harris taught everybody the salsa! It was fun, and girls danced with girls and boys danced with boys. I enjoyed dancing with my friend Leah - but she couldn't get the hang of the salsa to save her life! :-)
Later, Mr. Harris announced, "Let's see if you can beat your old man in a 7 minute pogo dance!" So he played Rock Lobster and we (the kids AND Mr. Harris) jumped for the whole dance. Well, at least some did. I did, for one! And boy, was I exhausted by the end of that dance! :-)
I had heard Thriller was going to be played, so I was waiting anxiously for it. We saw the whole 12 minute music video. I'd seen it before, so it didn't creep me out. Some of my friends really didn't like it though. It was so hilarious to watch the boys - whenever something scary came onto the screen, they jokingly screamed at the top of their lungs in "fear". One boy named Soren mockingly grabbed his friend, crying, "Save me!" And the girls? They looked at each other with very puzzled expressions on their faces! :-)
Then, when the school dance was almost over, everybody starting chanting, "Slow dance! Slow dance! Slow dance!" So Mr. Harris put on some slow music & most of the kids coupled up. I didn't dance with anybody. Well, I almost danced with somebody, but a girl named Angie intervened. Angie is in 10th grade and was trying to couple the people who weren't dancing. But I have to rewind a little bit for you to get this...
Mom saw Nick stand up from his chair and walk over to my direction, like he was going to ask me to dance. But then Angie steps in. She grabs Nick by the arm and then grabs me and pulls us to each other and says, "Dance." Then she walks away. That was really awkward. So Nick said, "Bye!" and walked away. Angie was trying to help, but she was being rude, even though she didn't mean to.

So that was my school dance story. I will try to write more often from now own!
Porkchops,
Jordan Reyha Coble

The Nutcracker...Pure Torture!

Oh, boy. Do you guys know how hard it is for me to see the emails regarding CDT (Children's Dance Theater) auditions and not be able to go to them???? Pure, pure, pure torture. I am dying, dying, DYING to be in The Nutcracker again. (I keep, keep, keep repeating things three, three, three times. Help, help, help! I can't stop, stop, stop!)

I miss everything: the beautiful costumes, the fun rehearsals with friends...even staying up until 11:00 p.m. to practice the night before the show. AAUUGHHH!!!!!!! I might go INSANE if I don't somehow get to perform in The Nutcracker again!!!!!!

Okay. Now that I've got that off my chest, I can act like a more reasonable and sane person. Sorry about all that, people. I loved being in CDT every year. Here are some fond memories about it:

In 2006 (the last year I was ever in The Nutcracker *sniff*), I was a wind-up doll. I wore a red tutu that stuck out in the back and was droopy in the front. Katie Low's tutu was the exact opposite. Anyway, we had these red felt stickers on our cheeks that were supposed to make us look more like a doll. They made my face itch.

I remember during rehearsal one day, something wasn't working - I don't remember what it was - and to help pass the time, I played with some of the little boy party guests. They opened up my cardboard box and stuff like that. But on the performance...

One little boy, named Shane, asked an older boy named Joey if he could open my box. I felt nervous. What if Shane opened the box...? Luckily, Joey told him not to, and he didn't. Phew!

I remember the 2005 season as well. I was the super-rush-costume change girl during the party scene. It all happened this way: I was assigned the role of an elf. During August, the only rehearsals scheduled were for party guests. Rylie was a party guest. So I was just waiting in the studio lobby, bored, and kind Ms. Deborah (dance teacher) said that I could come in and practice with them. I became a boy party guest.

Now, the children (boy and girl) party guests do a dance first, then there is a 1-minute dance for the adult party guests. Then the elves have to do a dance. I had a one minute to change from boy party guest to elf. Easier said than done, of course. I usually missed the very beginning of my elf dance.

The very first year I was in The Nutcracker I wanted to be a snowflake. This was my first year actually taking ballet (other then a ballet and tap combo class when I was 5). A snowflake is a character for advanced dancers. I chose snowflake because I thought asking for the role of Clara or Sugar Plum Fairy (lead roles) would be too much. Needless to say, I didn't get the role of a snowflake, but I contented with the roles of a girl party guest, angel, chinese dancer, and gingersnap.

Thanks for letting my pour out my sadness and memories on you.

Top Dance Items of the Month

Hello, all you dancers out there! I have picked out the top dance items of the month. If you want to buy these items, visit www.discountdance.com.

SHOES: H07S/H07SC I have to say, Capezio's printed FootUndeez are so cute! These are great for modern, lyrical, or jazz and come in neat patterns: Polka Dot, Leopard (Adult only), Zebra (Adult only), and Camo (Adult only).

LEOTARDS: HW732/HW732C This beautiful camisole leotard by Harmonie is one of Discount Dance's newest leotards. The child leotards come in black and lavender, but the adult leotards, as well as black, offer two of Discount Dance's newest colors: Action Blue and Vanilla.

TOPS/BOTTOMS: 200322C/200322 This skort by Frontline is so adorable! You don't need to be a dancer to wear this semi sheer outfit. The adult offers black, while the child sizes give you the choice of an adorable hot pink as well. There is a matching top with the words "DANCER" on it, but I highly doubt your parents would let you wear it because it is a racerback bra.

I always find it a treat to get a Discount Dance Supply catalog in the mail. I instantly sit down and flip through it. There are tons of new things by Discount Dance. The top items of the month aren't necessarily my favorite items, and they may not be yours, either. So check around the website and try to find your favorite shoes, leotards, and tops and bottoms!