Dance, Dance, Dance

In June, Amber preformed downtown at the Duke Performing Arts Center with her ballet class.  She has such natural grace, beauty and confidence.  As the timing worked out, after the performance we went to see the year-end recital for Inis Cairde School of Irish Dance.  Amber had been doing an eight week trial with the Irish dance school.  Our whole family, enjoyed the performance and with encouragement from her brothers, Amber switched from ballet to Irish Dance this fall.  The boys liked the modesty of the dance, Chris and I like the activity.  

When she has an Irish Dance class, she gets a true, need water break kind of athletic workout.  Though she is talented at ballet, the other students held her back making classes very slow and unchallenging.  When Jared did Irish Dance a few years back the teacher said "Ballet is a discipline, Irish Dance is a sport.", we totally agree.  We also like that talent determines advancement, not age and time spent in class.  

She is currently working up to be in St. Patrick's Day Parade Downtown in the Spring.  She has been given permission to buy a "soft dress" in January, something she is very excited about.  It's a lot of fun to watch her dancing around the house, and trying to teach her brother's to dance.