Starting fall semester of my junior year in Modern III, I knew that I would be challenged in several ways including: pushing my limits further, taking huge risks for myself, and learning choreography at a faster pace. So far in modern this semester, I feel that I have succeeded in these certain areas. I have experienced news things with my body by finding new places that my body could reach as well as surprising myself with things my body hasn’t ever experienced before. At the end of August, I set a few goals for myself that included: taking more risks, reaching to my fullest kinesphere and really performing the phrase, and focusing on getting my pelvis underneath me when getting in and out of the floor. When setting these goals for myself,
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When giving a task to use such as roll, cut, flip, etc it is easier for me to just go for it because I have an image in my head to follow by. Improvising with my eyes closed helps me just go for it rather than holding back and using the same movements over and over again. When worrying less about how I look or what movement is going to come next, I have been letting my movement’s just follow through and allowing that to determine how my body reacts into the next movement. Learning the cat phrase during class, I picked up the choreography very quickly. The movement quality for this phrase showed a sense of spinal articulation with a few of quick dynamic changes. While performing this phrase during class, I struggled with finding the different dynamic changes within my movements. I was told by a fellow classmate, to make the quick dynamic changes even quicker to where it surprises me. As I took that correction into a consideration when performing it again, I found that making those certain places quicker showed a huge difference in my performance level. I felt that I was more into risk taking the movements and performing it to the best of my ability. Performing this phrase as a solo for my …show more content…
The movement quality that was shown in this particular phrase was free flowing because the focus was more indirect. During this phrase, I focused on my own timing and how I could change it up for it to show who I am. While performing this phrase during out midterm, the feedback that I received from classmates was that I had good use of sternum, my movements were soft and smooth, and that my focus really drew people in to my performance. Watching myself perform this phrase, I noticed that I changed some of the choreography up to make it my own version. However, I did not have intentions of doing that, it’s just what felt right on my body at the time. During the first few movements of the phrase, I closed my eyes and felt my weight in my whole foot and allowed my body to just flow from right to left as I initiated from my ribs. The focus during my performance is what allowed me to flow through the movement smoothly and allowed me to tell my own story. When thinking about my goals during this phrase, I believe that I could have brought my pelvis more underneath me when getting off the floor into the side battement. However, my pelvis alignment during the développé was underneath and my hip was down as I have been working on this at the barre during ballet technique. If I could go back and work this phrase a little more, then I would work on changing my timing up and working on my
When giving a task to use such as roll, cut, flip, etc it is easier for me to just go for it because I have an image in my head to follow by. Improvising with my eyes closed helps me just go for it rather than holding back and using the same movements over and over again. When worrying less about how I look or what movement is going to come next, I have been letting my movement’s just follow through and allowing that to determine how my body reacts into the next movement. Learning the cat phrase during class, I picked up the choreography very quickly. The movement quality for this phrase showed a sense of spinal articulation with a few of quick dynamic changes. While performing this phrase during class, I struggled with finding the different dynamic changes within my movements. I was told by a fellow classmate, to make the quick dynamic changes even quicker to where it surprises me. As I took that correction into a consideration when performing it again, I found that making those certain places quicker showed a huge difference in my performance level. I felt that I was more into risk taking the movements and performing it to the best of my ability. Performing this phrase as a solo for my …show more content…
The movement quality that was shown in this particular phrase was free flowing because the focus was more indirect. During this phrase, I focused on my own timing and how I could change it up for it to show who I am. While performing this phrase during out midterm, the feedback that I received from classmates was that I had good use of sternum, my movements were soft and smooth, and that my focus really drew people in to my performance. Watching myself perform this phrase, I noticed that I changed some of the choreography up to make it my own version. However, I did not have intentions of doing that, it’s just what felt right on my body at the time. During the first few movements of the phrase, I closed my eyes and felt my weight in my whole foot and allowed my body to just flow from right to left as I initiated from my ribs. The focus during my performance is what allowed me to flow through the movement smoothly and allowed me to tell my own story. When thinking about my goals during this phrase, I believe that I could have brought my pelvis more underneath me when getting off the floor into the side battement. However, my pelvis alignment during the développé was underneath and my hip was down as I have been working on this at the barre during ballet technique. If I could go back and work this phrase a little more, then I would work on changing my timing up and working on my