Ballet Exam : RAD Advance

This is the first picture of a 2 and a half year old little girl at her first ballet class

 the studio is at StarHill, near Lot 10

 This teacher has since opened her own studio, and my daughter is still with her!!!

Aren't they cute!!!! The other girl is the daughter of  a model in KL Amy Chandran, sister of Bernard Chandran

Fast forward to 2014!!!!

She is now ready to take her RAD Advance examination!

 She gets ready herself and is quite adept at tying her own bun!

 Then I feed her a hearty breakfast/brunch!!!

She is still so skinny I do not know where all the food goes

 This is the building where The FAB will be the venue for the exam

 Federal Academy of Ballet at Wisma FAB, a very old place and building too, hehe

 I was impressed to see the Fonteyn studio theatre named after the famed Dame Margot Fonteyn

 with the examiner imported from the US, she is on her tea break

 nervous and apprehensive

Look at the tense look on their faces....waiting to go in the exam studio

 phew!!! all over now, she made some slips, but nevertheless, happy that it is over

 so they posed happily in an empty studio

 a far cry from the baby ballet girl, right?

I love this pic because her legs look like they go on forever....actually she is  a petite girl!!!

TDS 17th Ballet Competition '2014 (coached by Amare Dance Academy) girls

These are the girls from Amare Dance Academy who took part in the

TDS 17th Ballet Competition

Amare Dance Academy

Pei Chyn, Joelle Chan, Jacy Chen, Yang Dina Khistina, Hui Yin Kho, Carmen See Jia Min and Jenn Lin Tay

Amare Dance Academy : TDS 17th Ballet Competition '2014

The Dance Society of Malaysia 2014 competition
Date: 30 May - 1 Jun 2014

Participant: Cat 3 - Victorya Lee

Cat 2 -Yang Dina Khistina, Pei Chyn, Carmen See Jia Min,  Jenn Lin, Hui Yin Kho, Joelle Chan

Cat 1 - Jacy Chen

Finalist: Cat 3 - Victorya , Cat 2 - Pei Chyn & Hui Yin and Victorya won!!!

The school tuned up to support the 3 finalists on June 1st 2014... Pei Chyn , Hui Yin and Victorya

Jenn's Blue TuTu

Jenn has a dance competition coming up and she has her tutu tailored

 the other girls in their contest costumes according to the dance they have chosen

 Jenn and friends in their practice leotards

 dancers strike a pose in the costumes they have chose

don't they look beautiful????

 look at the details of her costume

 carefully and painstakingly hand sewn

 so pretty and creative

designed by the tailor himself

 even the costumer who sews it loves to watch Jenn dance in it, while he admires his own handiwork!!!

 look at the corset top

 with dangling tassels and blue petals studded with sequins and beads

 comes with matchting belt, arm bands and a head piece

 she is already a winner in this costume!!!!