Each week i feel myself getting better and better at these, still needing more improvements, but the more i get better the more enthusastic i am about these.
At 0.02 seconds you can see that my leg is out wide and my body is kept upright, also you can see in my face that i am really concentrating. At 0.08 seconds you can see my plie, my feet have graudally got wider throughout the weeks and i feel this is a good plie as i can also hold my balance at this width apart. Also at 8 seconds you can see that every time i come back from pushing my foot out i am coming back into a full plie whereas before i would only coe back half way. At 0.22 seconds you can see that my toes are not pointed to full potentail, this is still soething that needs to be worked on. Another thing that still need improving is working through the floor as i still dont do this very often. At 0.26 seconds you can see that my toes are pointed. So i need to work on getting my toes pointed every time my foot leaves my other foot. Also at 26 seconds you can see i am starting to lean to the side, so i found the less extentions on one foot the ore i lean so this needs improving. When dont one on each foot a stil wobbled a tiny bit but not as uch as before which is an improvement!

Improvements:
work through the floor
point toes every time leg gets extended
i wobble only a litte so try hardest not to wobble at all!

I feel in the dance that i am ore enthusastic about it as the weeks have gone one as i feel i have improved alot more from the first time i did it.
At 0.04 seconds you can see that i worked through the floor to get to this poing and my toes are pointed. One thing to improve on here is to bring my back more upright so the whole thing look strong and presentable. I also need to work on standing upright at 0.09 seconds. At 0.12 seconds you can see that i am doing a demi point on my right foot, i feel that my demi point is good and i always push as high off the ground as possible. At 0.13 you can see that i had just started my 'ankle, knee down'. At this point my foot is at my ankle, my toe is pointed well and have stood up straighter and improved my posture at this point. At 0.18 seconds i feel that my toe is pointed well, i have wroked through the floor and leg is extended to is full, i am proud of this! 0.37 we have gone into second position and started our demi points, i feel that my demi point is good and high and my second position is a good width apart. I need to improve on the alignment in my arms as they are on a bit of a slop downwards so i need to bring them up to shoulder hight. At 0.40 we lift off the ground, compared to everyone else i feel i have pushed myself abit to high off of the ground so maybe i shouldnt have such a spring in my push off, but a good thing i have done is that i have pointed my toe kept y arms up and kept a tall body. At 0.49 seconds you can see that i a faster than a few of the people in my class as i am touching my knee and they are only on there ankle so i need to concentrate on keeping in time with everyone else. My toe is again pointed and i am holding my balance well for my leg to be high up. At 1.00 you can again see that i have lifted my leg up high, my toes are pointed and my arms this time are in alignment. An improvement that i can see here is that i have tilted my head with my body so i need to keep my head straight and look forward. At  1.10 you can see that we started the development, we closed into 5th position and i feel that my feet turn out rather wide so my 5th position looks good. This was out second time doing the developent part so it is not that good. At 1.13 we started to push our leg round, you can see that i have fully extended my leg but i have leant to the side, i need to improve on this and stand up straight. At 1.17 seconds you can see that i have jumped out as wide as possible with arms still in alignment. At 1.19 you can see that when coming forward with my foot i havent exteneded it to my full potential and toe is not pointed this needs to be improved. At 1.31, this shot you can see me jumping up and you can see that i have a big spring in my foot and i a trying to get as much hight as possible. At 1.34 you can see when pushing my foot back forward  that i have extended it more this time and have a upright posture.

Improvements:
When doing the first part of exercise push off floor but not so high that my legs are nearly in a right angled posistion
When pushing foot backwards at the beggining of the development keep body in upright position.
Keep arms in alignment at all times
Extend leg when going forwards and point toes

How to improve these:
Be alot lighter on my feet and only get a small push off of the ground
Practice this when standing straight with arms down and the more it gets better start to add arms in as i feel that me leaning to the side has something to do with my arms as i feel my body following them round, also when doing this try going forwards with my leg to get the full extention and pointed toes when going forwards for the developent
I have mentioned strong arms in a few of my other blogs so by doing an exercise that will stregthen my arms will help hold the up

Plie devlopments, when doing these i can really feel my quads and hamstrongs really working.
At 0.00 seconds you can see that i have really arched my back and gone down into a lowish plie. could be lower. also my arms are rounded and structured well. At 0.03 seconds i dont think my plie is wide enough and could be better, also my arms are way to high they need to be lowered. But my back has a good curve. At 0.06 seconds i am going faster than everyone else and not using the whole 8 counts, i and also really sticking my stomach out! this needs to be sorted so i am just rotating my back and not my hole top half of my body. At 0.19 seconds i am again sticking my stomach out, but my arms are straight and in a good position. At 0.26 seconds  i dont give much of a arched back in second position at this point. Also my arms aint very structured and are nearly straight in this shot. At 0.29 seconds i go down into a good plie and have a good curved back but again my arms are too high this denfinatly needs improving! At 0.30 seconds, the second arch was alot better than the first and my plie has increased. 0.34 sticking stomach out again...
At 0.53 we started the development and i automatically stick my bum out, i need to make my back more upright and suck bum in! 1.07 seconds i am leaning forward which is leadin to my bum stcicking out. We then did the bounces, this was hard as it hurt my legs alot but i coped through it. At 1.17 my arms are nearly in alingment but need to be a little more straighter. At 1.23 seconds my heel comes up, i feel it come up quite high and this is good. At 1.28 i start to wobble when trying to balance on toes, so this is another thing that needs to be worked on. i am really tryin to concentrate to keep my balance. Also arms are in alignment. 1.43 good ending posisiton.

Improvements:
Alot of improvements are needed on this exercise!
- dont stick bum out on development
- keep arms in alignment at all times
- dont stick stomach out on first part of exercise
- keep balance on development
- on first part of exercise dont put arms to high
- increase leg strength

How to improve these:
- hold back upright to prevent bum sticking out
- create exercise to keep arms strong so alignment is easy to hold
- practice rotating only the top half of my back with someone holding my waist, then get them to let go and see if i can do it alone
- practice balance then hopefully will improve when on toes
- practice exercise and make sure arm are low
- create exercise based on legs to improve strength on them.

For this exercise i feel it was more dancey and i really enjoy this exercise so i am alot more enthusuiastic about doing it.
it starts by twisting the troso, so at 0.00 you can see that my body is pulled upright, my arms are straight and in alignment. Also at 0.02 second you can see that i have a good arched back and my arms arnt floppy and are structured well. At 0.03 seconds my arms come up and are again in alignment. At 0.09 seconds i have a good arch but i think i need to make my head more heavier  for the arch to flow the whole way through the spine. At 0.12 my back isnt a flat back it is more of a slope! therefore this needs improving. At 0.36 you can see that i am really twisting my spine by completely turning the whole top half of my body and me head. you can also see the same thing happening with the wraps at 0.43. At  0.44  you can see that i am really extending my arms and pointing my toes  trying  flex and move my spine as much as possible. At 0.48 seconds you can see that when twisting and flowing arms behind me i carried on twisting my spine to my full potential throughout. At 0.49 you can see a little of my tilt. What you can see from this shot that my arms are both  straight and not a wide width apart. Also my leg are in a good right angled position. A0.50 seconds we was doing a turn, you can see that i need to stand more uprught to make it a neat and presentable turn. But this all chances at 1.01 senconds as my arms are completely out and they should be straight down next to me to make the turn neat. At 1.07 you can see my arm in is a good position and the further it goes back the more my body twists.
When looking at this video i feel i completed this exercise to my full potental and did really well when twisting my spine, also i am alot more enthusicatic about doing this exercise.

The first cunningham exercise. As you can see i am in perfect kit for this lesson, as always, and you can see from my face that i am really concentrating in this video so i know that i can perform the exercise to the best of my ablitiy.
At 0.02 seconds you can see that my foot is lifted off of the floor but my toe is not pointed and i am also leaning to the side a little but not much, this is a big improvvement from the first time i had done it. also you can see at this time that i am pulling myself upright and really concentrating on what i am doing. At 0.07 seconds you can see that we have started on the left foot, my toe looks a little more pointed this time and i am not  leaning so much because i was really concentrating on pulling myself up and not leaning. i need to work on working through the floor as on both feet i have not worked through the floor. At 0.11 seconds you can see that i have started to lean to the side more as got faster and i have not  quite mastered standing upright and not leaning to the side yet as it gets faster. At 0.14 seconds my foot is touching the floor so i have started working through the  floor here but i need to work through the floor the whole way through. As this video comes to an end these start to get faster, and the faster they get the more i look like a pengiun!! At 0.22 seconds you can see my plie, i dont think this is a good plie as i dont go down to my fall potential and one leg is coming out wider than the other.


Improvements:
- to work through the floor when doing this excercise
- to keep body upright throughout and not sink into hips
- to point toes at all times
- improve plie at the end
- dont lean from side to side as gets faster


How to improve:
- practice this exercise slowly and make sure toes are pointed, working through the floor and not leaning, gradually get faster and dont move on further untill i can get it at that speed
- practice plies and make hamstrings and quads more streched so it doesnt hurt as much when going down

Duo's For Miss Englad's Lesson :)

For this lesson we made up duos that were based around the cunningham exercise twist tilt cruve and arch. At 31 seconds my duo starts, it starts with me twisting my back and my partner arching hers. We started like this as we had a theme of making the duo look like a 'fight' so by starting like this it looked like i had started on her. I then arched her back twice, i feel this was a bit repeative as all i was doing is just pushing her, to make this better i could of arched over with her so we was both doing the cruve. At 37 seconds my partner then cruved my back. by looking at this shot i feel that i have a every good curved back. At 43 seconds we both tilted in together, i feel that my tilt is quite good as we are both tilting in together and we have really made it look like and arguement the hole way through and for this point we have still made it look arugmentive. At 45 second i wait for my partner to come over to me, i feel like here something could be added so i a not just waiting around. She then pushes me down into a cruve and she curves over me, i feel this looks good. I then 'elbow' her and then curve my back to make it look like i won the fight.

In this duo we covered all the cunningham exercises which were the tilt, twist, cruve and arch. I feel that there if alot that needs to be devloped to make it a stonger and better peice but for a first time i think we achieved alot and made it a good theme throughout.

plies; arched/cruved back exercise and devlopment

Before the video even starts you can see by the shot that i am doing a very low plie and i am trying to make this stonger so i can get lower and achieve a better plie. Also you can see that my back is curved well. At 0.02 you can see that i have a curved back that could use improvements but for a first time is good, and my plie is still good but  knees could come out further to make it a better plie. at 0.07 you can see that i am going alot faster than the other people ion my class so i need to slow down and make it more smoother  I have also got to try and not stick my stomach out so mach and just move my back. at 0.31 you can see we have steped into second position and started our first plie with an arched back. i  think that my pluie is good, still needs improvement like moving my knees out further but i could do this by streching more so it wont hurt as much if i go lower. At 0.32 we curve out back. i think that i have a good curve and a good plie. at 0.38 we start to rotate our back. i think i rotate my back good and  rotate alot of the spine but i need to not stick my stomach out so much! at 0.56 we start the development. at 0.57 i have finshed my plie and start to come up, i think that i can definatly go lower on this and maked more improvements. 1.03 - embarrassment of my life!!! my bum is sticking out so much i need to get a straight back and not stick my bum out. 1.13 bouncing, this really hurt im leg muscles but i kept going as i really want to achieve getting lower and improving my plie, here again i also need to bring my bum back in! At 1.27 you can see that my foot is up and is a good point. At 1.31 we had to hold ourseleves up, i think i had pulled my back up straight and sucked my bum in more at this point but i sdo start to lose balacnce as time goes on and start to stick it out AGAIN!

Improvements:
- stuck bum in
- improve plies and get lower
- improve balance when holding myself up on my toes
- dont stick stomach out when rotating

How to improve these:
- practice going down into plie slowly, making sure bum is in and not out and the develop it by holding myself up on toes
- strech leg muscles more often
- practice holding myself up on toes at home and hold on to something and then take it away
- pactice rotations on upper back only so stomach doesnt come out.

Torso twist exercise and development

The torso twist development for me i found alot more fun so i was more enthusastic about it and had more energy as it was a more of a dancey exercise. At 0.10 you can see that my arms are not in alignment and are too far back behind me so i need to imrpove this by brining the forward. at 0.14 my 'flat back' isnt flat so this need to be worked on. Normally my flat back is really good when still but i need to start making it better when  i am going at a fast paste of movement. on a lighter side my arms are in alignment when doing the flat back. At 0.34 the developments start and you can see that i really put loads of effort in for the torso wraps to get  more of a twist in my spine and then at 0.36 you can see that iu turn my head to the back also to have that twist more. At 0.37 ywe start to lift our arm behind us, you can see that i do this really softly and still look behind to still get that twist in my back. You can also see that my foot is very pointed when doing this. At 0.41 we then do the tilt, you can see that one of my arms is straight and going thee way it should but the other one is slightly behind to i need to make them in the same place and both in line with each other. Also you can see in this shot the gs are in a very good right angled position. At 0.42 i need to starighten my arms and hands to make them more neater when moving across room. At 0.44 you can see that i go straight into the exercise and dont hesetate not to. In the second half of this development i dont turn my head around to the back (other when lifting my arm around) trying to achieve full moblity of the spine, so this need to be improved. At 0.52 you can see that my arms are not straight and this needs to be sorted!

Improvements:
- improve flat backs that dont last long and go into other moves
- alignment in arms when twisting to the side on torso twists
- turn fully when doing the start of development
- make arms straight when doing the tilt and hold it with right angled legs

How to improve theses:
- make up an exercise using a flat back that has a movement before and after them so i get use to doing them for a short period of time
- practice aligenment when twisting till perfect alignment at least 3 times
- practice holding tilt postition with straight arm and then devlop it by moving in to it so i get use to moving in to that posistion making sure my arms are straight and tidy.

Bounces in parallel and devlopment

This video is showing our first lesson on learning the developments for the cunningham exercises, so as you can see that they are not going to be perfect!!
aas you can first see at the time 0.04 my 'arched' back isnt so arched! This is because my back is to low down, i need to bring my back up more and  make more of a top arch in the upper part of my spine. a good thing that i noticed is that my arms are very structured and not floppy. also when bringing my arms up and getting them ready for plie at 0.08 my arms have good alignment. At 0.35 you can see, that compared to the others in my class, i havnt got and arched back and i really do need to work on this and getting my back arched. at 0.53 you can see that my plie is low and i really try to put alot of effort in pushing myself to the limit of how low i can get. we then moved on to the bounces in parallel development, at one minute exactly you can see that i am really looking at my back in the mirror to make sure thqat i can get a good cruve. And you can see that i have a curved back  and it is quite good but could have improvements. also at this time you can see that my arms are high and in line with my body and not to far back/forward. At 1.03 you can see that my toe is pointed well, but you can also see that i havent got much of an arch anymore so i need to work on this. at 1.26 i did a turn, i need to neaten up my arms on this turn but my balance was good.

Improvements:
- to work on my arched back on bounces in parallel
- to work on my curved back whilst lifting off the floor

How to work on these improvements
- when trying to get an arched/curved back i could work on this by flexing my spine more so it has the moblity to stay there without it hurting. Also i could practice these exercises to make myself better.

Waheyyy first attempt at doing and teaching bollywood dancing

In this lesson we looked at any different dance styles. These are the styles we looked at: ballet dance, ballroom dance, contemporary dance, belly dance and raqs sharqi dance, break dance, foxtrot, hip hop dance, irish dance, jazz dance, jitterbug dance, lindy hop dance, line dance, meringue dance, modern jive, modern dance, quickstep dance, rock and roll dance, salsa dance, samba dance, street dance, swing dance, tango dance, tap dance, waltz dance, bollywood dance, flamingo dance, african dance and finally aerial dance. Many of these dances i have not done before but by the end of this lesson i sure had sure experience on some of them! Ones i have done before are; Street dance (which i still do), irish dance, tap dance, ballet dance. We then had to teach one we had never done before so the one i choose to teach was bollywood.
Strengths:
- one of my strengths when doing this i think that my arms were every strong
- another strength i think was good is that my energy fow was good throughout it was only a short piece but if i were to carry on going this energy would of staied
- as becky also said ;) i think that i was good at teaching my bollywood peice as i explained it well and went through the first bit with the class then added the next part on then did it al to the music.
- when teaching i like to make my sessions fun and enjoyabe but stil knowing that people have earnt soething and i feel i did this
Weaknesses:
- i need to sort my talking out and not stuble with words and be ore confident with what im saying and doing
- i could of made this dance longer to make it ore intresing for the others
- stop pulling so any facial expressions!
- when pushing out to the side could of made arms more stronger
- when explaining i should go into ore depth about what i a saying and also ake sure i explain well so no one has questions to ask
Skills to develop:
Stronger arms - to do this i can work on ar exercises so whatever i do with my arms and in whatever position they are in they are strong.
Leg work - i seem to aways be bouncing on one leg so to make it more of a challenege i coud swap legs and bounce on the other leg
Spacial awareness - i had loads of space when doing this dance and i stood in one place i can develop on learning a new bollywood dance that invovles moving round the dance hall more and making it more active

To start developing these new skills i can put together exercises that strengthen my arms, i can also work on y co-ordination skills to swap legs when bouncing. To be aware of space i can learn new bollywood dances that are more active and invovles moving around more. I can do this by youtubing bollywood dances or going to bollywood dance classes or even lookin at films to get ove off of.