Reflection Paper On Ballet

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In the past nine weeks in ballet, I have been working on all of my goals that I wished to strive for to the best of my ability.By challenging myself this semester I realized that I had a chance to work on my goals that I have wanted to improve on but to still be able to work on my previous goals that I had.Since the beginning of the semester, my goals are progressing at a rapid pace. I intend to remain focused and improve my work ethic as I continue to progress on previous goals while also sharpening my technical abilities.Ballet has never been strong for me, but I feel like my work ethic is making me strive to continue to achieve my goals that I wish to continue on and to progress as a dancer.
One goal that I feel I have worked on in class
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But, one goal that I strongly feel needs to be worked on as I continue to progress is musicality. I feel that this has been a goal I need to continue to still work on because this is not a habit I have but each combination does not have the same rhythm in it. An example where I noticed that I had to work on picking up, the timing is when we learned the sleeping beauty variation for the midterm. Picking up the accents in this combination is something that I struggled with especially since I thought I was going to mess up a …show more content…
I want to continue to progress and working on achieving my previous goals that I had of improving my musicality, movement, and staying lifted. One new goal that I would like to have about six more weeks is to be able to continue to still focus on my technique by working on every detail that is needed in each combination. This has been something recently that I needed to work on because there are moments where I rush with specific things in combinations and it does not show that I completely executing the movement. Overall, I hope to continue to grow as a dancer and by continuing to work with these goals I can further myself. Even though these were originally goals from last semester I can still continue to expand on the goals. I want to continue to stay on top of my training by being committed to my goals and working to the best of my ability. With only having six weeks left of the semester I want to continue to work on my goals in any way possible. I hope by working hard in class that my goals can continue to be stronger and not get

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