Oh My Gosh! I have 7 days left of Joffrey. I cant believe I’m about to have completed a year in NYC! This is crazy. 🤯🥹🙌🏾
Right now dance has been pretty busy. My teachers scheduled a lot of extra rehearsals for our pieces as we are preparing for our spring performance. We also had assessments last week which was a little nerve racking. The Artistic DIrector comes and watches each class and assesses us on how we’re improving, our behavior in class, ,etc. Last week I had a Ballet technique, pointe, variations, partnering, contemporary, contemporary ballet, and Jazz assessments. I feel like they went very well. I’m very proud of how I did! My teachers were all very proud of me and my class for all of the hard work we but in this semester!! I’m so happy assessments are over and now I can just focus on the show. 😌🙌🏾💖
I’m super excited for the spring show!!! My jazz and ballet pieces are so amazing. They’re really challenging my stamina. For example, my jazz piece is like 6 minutes long, which isn’t bad. I’ve just never been in a piece this long where I’m dancing the whole time. I’m so grateful my teacher put me in the whole dance and that he also gave me a featured part! It’s just hard because the the movement is very fast. The more and more we run the piece the more stamina I build. I’m confident that I’m going to do a great job in both my Ballet and Jazz dances on Saturday!! 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Anywayssssss, here are a few things I’ve done besides dance.
Last week I hung out with one of my dance friends after dance and went and ran a few errands together! Even though we were just running errands it was just so fun to be in the city with a friend!! We had a great time together!!💕. Also Mr. Jermaine a family friend that lives in the city, picks me up from dance some days or sometimes will take me to my PT appointments when my aunt cant. The other day before my PT appointment Mr. Jermaine and I grabbed some boba!! Which was really fun!!! Boba is probably one of my favorite drinks. 😆 I’d have to say my favorite thing to get is a taro milk tea and boba. Anyways, it was really great to hang out with him. He’s such a cool person and he’s almost like an uncle to me! 💖😊. Last but definitely not least I went to go support my aunt in a play that she’s in called Sally and Tom. Sally and Tom is about the relationship of Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson. My aunt is understudying a few of the characters in the play. The woman who plays Sally’s sister unfortunately had a family emergency, but that means my aunt got to go on!! My aunt got to do 6 shows. She did such an amazing job! I have not seen my aunt perform on stage since I was younger so I’m so grateful I was able to go and support her!! 😘😘😘
As my time in NY is coming to an end this week, I’ve been doing a lot of reflecting. First and foremost I just want to say that I’m very grateful for this year away from home. Don’t get me wrong I love my parents, brother, and dog SO MUCH!! It’s been so hard to be away from them. I just feel like I’ve grown so much as a dancer and as a person. I honestly I feel like before this year I started to take things for granted and just didn’t value the little things all the time. Now I’m so much more appreciative for everything I have. I’m so grateful for all the little things and the little moments. I most definitely value my parents, brother, and dog more. I’ve learned not to take things and people for granted. I feel like I have become more responsible. Also it has been so great to be exposed to all different types of people. I’m grateful that I’ve learned how to handle myself in scary situations. I think to sum everything up I’m just grateful for exposure. I feel like every experience I’ve had has really grown me and helped me to be more mature. 🥹💖🥹💖🥹💖
Come see me perform in NYC This Sat May 11th!!
My end of year spring performance at Joffrey is May 11th! There are two shows. There’s one at 2pm and one at 7pm!! I hope to see you there!! Also, I understand that traveling is expensive so I completely understand if you’re not able to make it!! I’ll make sure to share tons of pictures and videos! 💕🎉 The link is below if you want to get tickets!
Tix link: https://ci.ovationtix.com/30745/production/1193417
Go FUND Me Update!
I’m happy to let you all know that I am a halfway to my goal of $10,000s for summer intensives. Thank you all SO much for donating!! If you can, please consider supporting and or share the link with friends and family any amount helps. 🙏🏾☺️
Karis Pendleton 
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