My in person classes have been going a couple of months now, and it's nice to be feeling somewhat "normal" again, although things have changed since pre-pandemic. I'm teaching during the week at night, which seems to be the more popular time for people to join in, versus my Saturday morning classes. I've had to go back to basics in person because the dancers who have signed up are a mix of very new, and some experience.
My student troupe will be performing this weekend at our third in person event, post-pandemic (is it over?). It's at an outdoor festival, where there will be carnival rides, vendors and entertainment.
The first event we returned to was our previous favorite local event hanging at the hangar, a quarterly dance show in our area. It was way more crowded than we anticipated, and we did have a case of jitters coming back in person. Our rehearsal went better than our performance but I did get to do a solo and that sort of redeemed me, at least. Happily, people were interested at the event in signing up for my classes although nothing actually came of that.
The second in person event we did was a restaurant show and a lot of technical problems happened, making it an "OK" event, but not really great. The crowd was a tough one, because they were so annoyed about all the tech issues. We did win them over by the end of our set.
The festival performance was great. We did 5 songs, including finger cymbals, fan veils, swords and two dance routines without props.
