I OFTEN think that there are certain whimsical, magical thinking and power that a 4-year-old kid possesses that adults could not have or understand. I am not a fans of Harry Porter books and movies, but I did not need to read Rowling to realize the whimsy of my son when I watched him dance and dance pretending to be “the prince” in his school’s Sleep Beauty Ballet Workshop performance.
It was an extracurricular activity that I had signed Little R up for for the past four months. The ballet teacher said that that was their first time putting up together a workshop like this based on a theme. That was the Sleeping Beauty story and music by Tchaikovsky.
Little R did not use to like “ballet,” when I first asked him to go to ballet lessons. But thanks to this show and the arrangement of a very interesting theme and beautiful music, he was totally into playing “the prince” and doing the swings and spins on his toes. He could not hide his excitement in performing his “special magic” that his legs were constantly tiptoeing and his body twirling (even as they were walking into the hall before the performance) and that he could not put his smiles away for a single second in their final stage performance yesterday.
Here is a picture of how excited he was (at tea time with us) before going back to school to get ready for his debut ballet show.
(at 4 years 3 months 8 days)
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