Reflective Essay: Improving My Growth As A Dancer

From my last year of study, there has not been much that has changed from my perception of ballet. So far, I noticed that I made progress in improving my technique as well as having a clearer focus while learning the combinations in class. I want to improve in whatever way possible to make sure that I can keep on top of my technique, especially since I look forward to striving forward through this semester as a continuation of last semester. On the first day back of the new semester, I already knew that I wanted to break some of the bad habits that I had and wanted to find any way possible to make the goals a primary focus. Even though I have my strengths and weaknesses, I want to further myself this semester to grow as a dancer by breaking some old habits that are holding me back.
One of the main goals that I would like to focus on this spring semester is improving on my breathing while I dance. I noticed I have been holding tension, which causes me not to breathe and holds me …show more content…
In the past weeks, I have learned to work on this because I would like to not only to be confident in the sequencing of the combinations but also to focus on musicality. So far, I have learned to keep hearing the different tempos based on the accents in the music and work on different qualities of movement, according to what the movement quality is suppose to be, especially at the barre.
As well as working on these other goals, I would like to work on confidence in the movement. Last semester I realized it is not the best idea for me to just go for the movement. I want to work on it this semester and am already starting to notice some changes. While taking class, I notice the progress that I am making to work on getting better with confidence. This goes along with working on my sequencing as well as applying corrections that I need to work on to grow as a