This past weekend, I went home to East Texas to watch my best friend’s daughters in their annual spring dance show. It had been ages since I had been to a dance recital, and I really enjoyed watching the dancers and seeing their beautiful costumes. (I also really enjoyed watching my 85-year old grandfather try to make sense of an interpretive dance of “Paul Blart, Mall Cop,” but that’s another story for another day!)

Despite a decade of dance lessons, I was denied a spot on my high school dance team both times that I auditioned. The only dance I was ever any good at was Appalachian clog dancing, but I was GREAT at it. I was on a showcase team and even today could probably clog circles around any other sedentary 43-year old who wanted to challenge me. Oddly specific, but true.

Anyway, I took so many photos and videos of Saturday night’s performances, and immediately tried to recreate some of my favorites once I was back home. These were two standouts: “Star Wars” opened the show because it was on May 4, (May the fourth be with you….) and “Coco” was so pretty with the dancers’ face paint, flower crowns and beautiful full skirts.

These were fun to draw and animate – maybe I’ll do more soon!