Elementary School Performance in Walnut Creek
End-of-year performance at the elementary school here in Walnut Creek tonight. The auditorium was packed — we ended up behind a wall of heads, half the parents holding phones up over the rows in front of them.
The show was some kind of garden theme. A whole row of kids in green caps with yellow flowers stuck to them, and a smaller group off to one side in full flower costumes, big paper petals around their faces — a red one, a white daisy, a yellow one. One boy in overalls and a plaid shirt stood out front as the farmer, holding still while everyone around him sang. Projections of farmers hoeing fields played on the screen behind them the whole time.
A teacher stood at the foot of the stage directing, and you could see the kids watching her more than the audience. Toward the end the choreography loosened up and the flower kids on the left started leaning and crouching, whether on cue or not I couldn't tell. Nobody fell off the risers, which given how crowded that stage was felt like an achievement on its own.
