The semester so far

In my first post I set myself targets to work on during these last 8 weeks, and I personally feel I have really come along from the start of the semester. I wrote how my main weakness was holding back in class and not giving the movement phrases my 'all'. Having to write about this and analyse myself as a dancer/performer made me consiously think about this in lessons, so instead of thinking about myself in a negative way and asuming because I find certain lessons harder than others, i've tried to find the similarities between the lessons so I can then think 'If I can attack other lessons with confidence, then I can be confident in all of them'. Using this mentality has really helped me to improve, I obviously still have areas to imporve on as my technique is flawed but I leave technique lessons really beleiving I have given my all and worked as hard as I could. I'm definitely going to use this confidence throughout the year and apply a good mental atitude to other mudules, and paths I take.

I wrote also how I struggle to keep my shoulders and hips aligned after slipping back into old habbits after summer. With this I also think that having the awareness of keeping my shoulders and hips square in the first couple of weeks meant I keep them aligned atoumatically now, although I am not always perfect and still need to work on not tensing when I find something difficult and really turning out from the backs of my thighs to stop sinking into my legs and sending my hips off.

Although I have found analysing and writing about myself as a dancer quite difficult I really think it's helped me to look at my technique and not as the things I do 'wrong' but things that I can improve on and can work on every lesson. By having this understanding of my body I realise how I can apply myself better in lessons. My personal learning and understanding is just that; personal. I am only ever trying to be better than myself, and will carry on to do so.

I've really enjoyed the semester so far and feel I have really improved, although I know i still have areas to work on with my technique I know i can go forward and apply myself to these with a good and positive attitude that I have developed over this process.

Thankyou for reading!