I took theses photos at dress rehearsal before Mid Iowa Show Choir Championships. (This is our school's show, so we host and can't "win" but get a critique to help us get better. (I say "us" as if I have something to do with it...ha ha.) Dress rehearsal is great because you can use a flash.
Anna is in the middle.
back slightly left of center in the next two photos - don't they look like they are having fun?
The next 2 photos are especially great because Anna wasn't originally performing this song. (You are a swing when you are off stage for a song and this was the song in which she was one of the swings.) Each song a big handful of kids are off stage because the group is quite large and also because occasionally someone quits and then a swing can fill the hole. Sometimes a swing will perform when someone is sick, but normally that is too short of notice. Anyway someone quit and Anna was given the chance to perform for the entire show (no swing) - which is so much fun. Plus the person who quit had excellent stage position in this song....and the song is just really fun to perform....plus it is the closer!
Their costumes are supposed to be based on the early 2000s....I kinda call that into question. (Anna pointed out that I wasn't in high school in the early 2000s....true.) The girls (including Anna) who are wearing the green pants, mostly checked "any", when asked what outfit they wanted.....so I give her a lot of credit. She really wanted the cute dress and denim coat, but that went to the girls who weren't quite as flexible :0) I was not surprised that she was flexible, she really is an easy going kid.
Here is a photo from Twitter (thanks to Carolyn who spotted it), from Anna's first real competition: Linn Mar Supernova (Linn = county, Mar=Marion shortened)...So although this wasn't Ken's high school it was in the town where he grew up, so Grandma Carolyn came to watch. [sister] Carolyn and Joel also went, then we left Carolyn in Iowa City and took Matthew out to dinner after work!
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