Maile’s First Hip Hop Dance Recital with Nagata Dance

by Papa K on December 7, 2014

Earlier in the summer, Christine heard about this new dance studio opening up right near our house in Japantown called Nagata Dance. They were offering Hip Hop class and Maile said she wanted to take it. All fall, Maile has been going on Wednesdays after school – I never really get a chance to see her dance because I’m still at work, but Christine has raved about the class and the teacher. The class is currently really small (only 4 kids), but the main teacher, Ms. Nagata, is fantastic with the kids.

Today they had their first dance recital … and it was fantastic. It just had this great down-to-earth quality to it, but we also saw all the kids had learned and I was floored by Maile’s routine. You could tell the kids were having a lot of fun too – but that they also respected their teacher – all good things in my book!

I think you’ll enjoy it too.

Here is Maile’s Hip Hop routine:

And at the end they did a final number where each student was able to bring a parent or friend onto the dance floor – Maile, of course, chose Lauren 🙂

And, finally, here is a longer version of the recital – we’ll call this one the “Grandma cut” 😉

(Click here for the hip hop routine.)
(Click here for the final number.)
(Click here for the full routine, aka the Grandma cut.)

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