I will always remember going to see a ballet performance when I still lived in Chicago about 12 years ago. If I remember correctly I would have been around the age of 5-6. I received the news on a weekend during the afternoon in my kitchen with my mom standing next to the sink and my dad looking at me while I was showing my purple ballerina leotard equipped with a purple tutu and purple sleeves with light purple tights and pink ballet shoes. I remember eagerly telling my mom and dad that I was very excited to perform and that this would be the outfit that I would wear. She laughed and said that we were going to see professional ballerinas perform in a production and that I would not be performing and instead be apart of the audience. I remember feeling sad because I truly believed …show more content…
I was taking ballet lessons at the time and had a lot of fun doing them, and that made my excitement for the production even more heightened. We arrived at a theater that was most likely the Joffrey Ballet theater since it was a popular theater there. It was huge and gigantic and elegant like the inside of a 5 star hotel with huge chandeliers and long hallways with decorative yellow carpet. We then met the ballet dancers that were getting ready in a similar sort of backstage area, I remember a woman speaking with a leader type of tone and I assumed that she was the head of the production or the ballerinas choreographer. We were most likely able to see the dancers getting prepared because my family knew who the woman was I can't remember her face correctly, but I just feel like I knew who she was looking back at the memory. After that my family and entered the theater and sat down and waited for the production to start. When it started it felt like the light was shining only on the dancers and the rest of the audience completely disappeared and was left in