Personal Narrative: Improving My Dance Performance

During this semester so far, I feel that I have grown not only to be a better dancer, but I have improved my performance quality in the classroom. As I am in my third semester of ballet II, I really want to focus on the things that I can perform better at. Although I do have goals for myself such as, fully completing a double pirouette on my left as well as a triple pirouette on my right, and strengthening my glute’s and hamstring more instead of gripping in my hip flexors and quadriceps when doing grande battements. Throughout the rest of the semester in ballet, I plan to fully put effort towards these goals so that I can improve and more forward. Working on my pirouettes has been a goal that I have been working on for a while now. In class, I feel that I have been going for it instead of holding back. I have focused my on center by fully pulling up and engaging my lower abdominals. When going across the floor, I
I don’t think that I am falling behind and I am definitely on top of my stuff. One thing that has really worked for me throughout this course, is writing down the exercises. While learning our midterm combinations at the barre and center, I wrote all of them down so that I could remember them when it came time to perform them. By doing this, it has allowed me to focus on the details of the combinations instead of trying to remember the combinations. This has also helped me to perform the combinations to my fullest potential instead of acting like I’m lost. The corrections that I have been given throughout the semester so far include: making sure that I am getting my tendu’s and dégagés fully behind me, engaging my lower abdominals, and reaching my heels down when coming up from a grande plié. I have taken these few corrections and have applied them to the best of my ability. I know that there are times that I slip up and forget about it, but doesn’t mean I have forgot all about