Just as I was ready to pack up for the time being and get ready to try a different series EnduranceProtocol had to go and start releasing volume 12. Guessing it'll be a chapter a day if it's like the last releases so the Kenrantaru storytime has an extra lease on life for the next few days.
Last time, Kanade was reunited with Chloe and Maho, the friend she'd made while in Marseille before starting her first workshop of the week; one hosted by Abby. There she made note of the way dancers like Ema were able to adjust their steps while dancing and one girl, a #117, managed to draw her attention. As the Grand Defile rehearsals weren't until later Takimoto took Kanade and Shouko to see a Broadway play and both came away suitably impressed. Kanade also learned that if she earned a prize she'd be able to dance a solo on the same stage that the New York City Ballet performs on and she and Shouko reaffirmed their vow to dance on stage together.
Shouko's sounding a lot like her father after he took her to see the Paris Opera. Which is kind of good, she's showing a lot of confidence that she lacked back in the preliminaries.
I guess Maho's been cramming on the English since Marseille. And that's harsh from Chloe but not anything that Sakura hasn't said a dozen times already.
Fun little aside but where I live, there's a new non-profit ballet company that's started up which is surprising since there's really nothing at all like that pretty much anywhere around here. Anyway it seems pretty serious as of the two founders, one is a former principal for the Dutch National Ballet and the other is a professional ballroom dancer who's the great-granddaughter (or something like that) of Agrippina Vaganova, the creator of the Vaganova method of ballet teaching that's come up a number of times in this series.
