Friday night, I went to see the FDT2 performance at Florida Dance Theatre. And it was excellent!

Yes, I know. I'm a bad blogger. I actually waited almost THREE WHOLE DAYS to post this. And, of course, I didn't take a camera. I'm still getting the hang of this whole blog world. But anyway...

For those who don't know, FDT2 is like the understudy group for the professional dancers at Florida Dance Theatre and it's composed of the best of the Academy's students. These students seem to average about 14-18 years old.

The performance only featured these dancers, and about half of the pieces performed were choreographed by the students, as well. I was really, genuinely impressed. In fact, no offense to Carol, Freddy, or Kim (the three professionals who choreographed pieces for the show), but I think I enjoyed the student pieces even more in some cases! Since I'm no dance critic, and I'm still a fairly low level student, I'll leave further comments or criticisms on the performance to others, however.

It is amazing and wonderful to me that Polk County has such a talented pool of young artists to draw from, and I know that the students at Florida Dance Theatre are just a very small percentage of that. There are other talented dancers, musicians, visual artists, and actors here just waiting to be seen!

So KUDOS to FDT2! Keep up the great work guys, and I'll be seeing you all in class!