On Thursday I had one hour of
Contemporary and one hour and a half and one hour and half of Jazz. My
Contemporary teacher is called Laura and my Jazz teacher is called Vicky.
Contemporary
In Contemporary we did a number
of exercises which helped my Flexibility, Strength and my Extension. We
did a warm up which lasted about 15 mins. This got the blood circulating around my body and
warming up my muscles. We then did the first exercise which consisted of rolling down through the spine, doing lunges, going out to plank position and leg swings. All of these are the basic warm up exercises which start to warm up the spine, the hips and also is responsible for waking up the centre.
We also did a Tendus exercise which
got me thinking about my strength, my extension and my tracking. Tracking of the leg is very important
in dance because it creates a pure extension of the line and prevents sickling.
I tried not to sickle because it will likely develop incorrect muscles
which can a limit an overall ability to perform more advanced steps and it can
break your line. To make me not do this I had to be very conscious of the
tracking of my foot.
Jazz
For Jazz, Vicky started us off with a very intense warm up which tested my stamina. We did a plie exercise which also had alot of flatbacks
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