After months of honing and practicing Emily did beautifully at the recital!
Below is a picture of Emily, Emily and Momoka, and Emily with her whole group!
They danced to the ballet "Urashima Taro" (A popular Japanese folktale about a young man who rescues a turtle and is rewarded for this with a visit to the Palace of the Dragon God under the sea. He stays there for three days and then asks to go back,the princess says she is sorry to see him go, but wishes him well and gives him a mysterious box called tamatebako which she tells him never to open. upon his return to his village, he finds himself 300 years in the future, depressed he opens the box, he is suddenly aged, his beard long and white, and his back bent. From the sea comes the sad, sweet voice of the princess: "I told you not to open that box. In it was your old age."
