Personal Narrative: A Career As A Dance Technique

After last semester when I went to see the Podiatrists I thought all my problems were going to disappear. When realizing that the cortisone shot did not work, I decided that I was not going to baby my injury any more. When walking into last semester I felt that I grew tremendously from the semester before and from my Italy dance experience. After my injury my technique went downhill fast. I thought that going to physical therapy was going to help me get back to where I need to be with my ankle. During winter break I did a lot of exercises that I felt was going to help me with getting my technique back that I lost. At the end of last semester I realized that the fall semester was nothing but one large roller-coaster that I was on, and I was hoping that this semester was going to be better. During my time in Italy I took a contemporary ballet class almost every day and I truly fell in love. After seeing Charlotte Ballet Company perform I realized that contemporary ballet is where my heart is. After school when I figure out everything with my ankle I plan on auditioning for a contemporary ballet …show more content…
This is something that will help me standout when in an audition. I feel that I used to do very well with my performance quality but I slowly lost it as I started to focus on my technique. Now that my technique is at a decent place I feel that is it would be a good idea to go back on focusing on my performance quality since I am about to go start auditioning for places. Another goal I am going to work on for the remaining of the semester is during grand allegro is finding the up. I feel that before the injury I was able to find the up when jumping, but I lost all my power to get me off the ground. I have noticed that I think about the landing of my jumps because they make me nervous with my ankle. When performing grand Allegro I will start thinking up and not about my