Ugh. Shudder.
They've taken one, admittedly important, area of dance and isolated it from all the others - result: random contortions with no rhythm, grace or actual dancing :(
And the costumes - arghh!
"we're not acrobatical down South" Ummm, really? Apart from the made up word it's not even true. My older three daughters can do pretty much everything those girls are doing but they do it in regulation leotards in studios or in tasteful costumes on stages and the do it mixed in with actual dance choreography.
I actually have less of a problem with the pushy mothers and teachers than I do with the sacriligious (sp?) treatment of dance
Yes, I'm a dance teacher