Friday, 30 December 2011



This part was all about wiggling our hips and being on our toes the whole time.
Me and Ray start ours at 0.18 seconds. At 0.21 seconds i was looking down, i need to have more confidence within myself and look up and not look feet. At 0.22 seconds you can see that me and ray both push our hips out and give a really effective look. also throughout when we are waking you can see that we are both staying on our toes and not losing the effectivness. Again at 0.54 you can see me on my toes. One thing that i have spotted again at 0.55 seconds is me looking down at the floor. Me and Ray near the end of the video then begin to lose our steps and we just walk off, we should of carried on and not just walked off.
So the improvements that need to be done throughout furture lessons is to gain confidence and look up also when forgotten carry on.


Within this video they are teaching us the very begining the dance, as you can see i am looking at the the hole time concentrating on the moves that they are doing and lisneing to what they are saying. At 0.02 seconds i get a bit confused with the arms and what way they were meant to be but i soon change them to the right way by looking at the professionals arms.
When we all perfor it together mine and rays one doesnt look to back we could give more effort but it was our first tie doing it and we was aking sure of getting all the moves right.

'The audidtion'



I feel this part of the audition went really well, me and ray worked really well together helped eachother out on bits we didnt quite get to make the end perforance too good. We made sure that we were smiling and enjoying the dance.
You can see from the very begining of the video clip that i was really giving it my all and really pushing all of my moves. We was also in time with very one else which was good as we wasn't going too fast or too slow.
At 0.10 seconds you can see that i am looking down this isnt as i am looking at the floor and i should be looking up at my partner showing that we are both really enjoying the dance. Although i was concentrating on what i was doing they was judging us as a pair therefore i could have lowered the impressions a bit for both of us.
At 0.14 you can see that me and ray are looking at eachother, as this is a partnered dance and the judges said they wanted to see us getting us geting along well and chemsitry between us we looked at eachother, smiled as uch as we could and gave it our all.
At 0.33 we ended in our last posistion, i waited there untill the judges clapped and didnt move. Also right at the end you can see that even once people had started moving i still waited there and gave the jugdes as uch as i could give.

Show off a skill



This was that part where we had to show off about any good moves we had and as you can see i was the last one to go as i felt i didnt have any, therefore i used the kicks as my tanlent as i couldnt think of anything else and i felt i could do these quite good.
At 0.03 seconds you can see that my arms are in good alignment and that my leg is kicked high. You cannot see in this shot but everytime i kicked my leg i tried to make my toes pointed.
At 0.06 seconds you can see that my back leg isn't straight so this is an improvent that needs to be done. Methods that i could do this is by balancing on one leg and with the other leg put it back and slowly put it higher making sure that it is always straight.
At 0.13 seconds you can see that my leg is really high yet i was still keeping balance, my toe looks pointed but could use some improvents and y arms look floppy. My arms need to be out and straight.

Tuesday, 22 November 2011


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

Monday, 21 November 2011


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.