Baton Performance

Wednesday night Danielle's baton group performed at a retirement home in our town. At the last practice the kids made cards to hand out to all the residents after the performance. I wanted to tape this performance since something happened to our video from their performance a couple weeks ago. Unfortunately this is really not a good representation of the routine. The room was small, so the group had to split into 2 groups to perform. (We have almost 40 kids in our group this year!) Even with that the girls were crammed into the room rather haphazardly and had a hard time keeping in sync because they couldn't really see each other.


Danielle is the 3rd one in, and she is on cue most of the time (despite the girls beside her). I cut the video off about half way, but the routine just repeats for the most part. Some of the better girls usually do a "trick" at the end where they flip the baton between their legs and over their hip, but there wasn't enough room for them to do that here. Danielle is one of the girls who is supposed to do the trick, but she's about 50/50 on it (as are most of the others).


The residents seemed to enjoy watching the girls, although the staff was rather grumpy about having to put a little extra effort into their evening routine. (For that reason, we'll give this home only 3 stars and will cross it off our list of potential possibilities for our retired loved ones.) :)