Not my cuppa tea but when they pull out the checkbook, it's all good :-)
The problem with this shoot was someone thought it would be just peachy keen if they had a constant flow of "mist" over the entire stage on every dance....it didn't just get old, it knocked down the light value by a 1/3 of a stop or more when they used green gels. Since most of the dancing was freestyle, these kids moved quite fast and to get good head movement, hair flings and stop a lot of bouncing and jumping, I had to shoot at ISO 16,000, 5.6 @ 1/1000th. It made for some interesting editing to say the least.
Teacher's dance:
I played around a bit with different B&W conversions, each designed toward a particular light group. These next three were predominately lit with green gels. Green light makes skin tones look deathly sallow. B&W makes it far easier to get around the death mask.
One Happy Toddler
These I call the Greenies:
The next ones are a good variety of what the recital looked like and in the one with the handstand, you can see how dominate the "mist" was....arrrggghhh
Dancing in circles
Hand Stand
Bummer that I missed the top of the fore hand but getting this "Flying Wallenda" was Pretty Neat: