It was my niece’s dance thingo today. Her first time on stage. Her and 3 other pre-school aged kids and it was just as you’d imagine it to be.

When they were led out onto the stage by their teacher at the start of the song, one of the little girls immediately jumped off the stage, ran to her grandma in the front row and opted out. This was after she’d been having a great time rolling around on the stage before the event started. There was a little boy who just stood on the stage and stared at his family looking mildly upset. Another little girl at least had a go but wasn’t paying much attention to the teacher who was leading them and then finally my niece was actually trying her hardest to follow the teacher’s moves. She was the best!

We stayed for about half a dozen or so more music students’ performances who were older and did things like play guitar, play drums along to Metallica/ACDC/RHCP songs, sing and play piano. A little boy played the first 3rd of Bohemian Rhapsody on the grand piano almost flawlessly. Kid would have been like 8 tops I think, but I’m not great with guessing ages. Super impressive. The whole thing was to get the kids performing in front of people so they all messed up at various points, which is fine. They pushed through and got to the end of their performances.

Then my niece decided that she wanted to leave so we ducked out of there before she could really passionately start stating her intentions for the exit.