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Anon, (2018). [image] Available at: https://balletboard.com/healthy-meal-plan-for-dancers/ [Accessed 11 May 2018].

This image shows a standard dancers diet plan with the ratios of what foods should be consumed to sustain a healthy, strong dancers body. This links into my work as this is on of my main focus points in my self improvements that I will be working towards within the next year.

(Reference to section 4)

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Anon, (2018). [image] Available at: http://www.yogacards.com/yoga/yoga-fitness/hamstrings-splits.html [Accessed 11 May 2018].

This image shows the development of the splits and demonstrates how to increase your flexibility which is one of my weaknesses and is something I am improving on. Executing these stretched every day will increase the hamstring flexibility, ensuring a better split.

(Reference to section 2 and 4)

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Anon, (2018). [image] Available at: http://www.motioncreates.com/pirouette-junior/ [Accessed 11 May 2018].

This image demonstrates the classical pirouette positions and shows how to correctly execute a ballet pirouette. This links into my work as this is one of my weaknesses and is something I am improving on.

(Reference to section 2 and 4)

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Anon, (2018). [image] Available at: http://www.balletcurriculum.com/use-of-feet-and-turnout-in-pre-ballet/ [Accessed 11 May 2018].

This image has reference to my improvements in section 2 and 4 of my work. This image shows the progression of a classical ballet turn out and shows the different stages of development this is what I am currently working at.

(Reference to section 2)

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4.      Next academic year within the Core Techniques Module I would like to: My aim for the next following year is to focus on the musical theatre side of my training as it is now one of the elements I have been opened to and have found a recent interest in that I would like to continue developing. This will be done by having extra singing lessons from recommendations off my teachers and taking extra acting lessons so increase my skills in those weaker areas. Another aspect I would like to work on is my fitness and wellbeing. At this stage of my training I am not happy with my physical look of my body and would like to out a fitness and diet plan in place for me to follow. I will do this by going to the gym in my spare time, which I do already, but I will create a diet that fits my schedule and training and to make sure I am getting all the dietary requirements I need to sustain a healthy dancing body. Another key focus point I want to develop on is my training. My classical and jazz technique always needs improvements so taking extra jazz classes after hours which are provided at the studios for us students will help my progression within myself. Maybe getting one to one sessions to work on detailed aspects of my technique such as my turns, or flexibility, turn out etc, would benefit me as the tuition will give me detail to my body and my personal technique and what I need to do to correct a fix any issues.

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3.       Over the last Semester I have become better at: I would say I have become better at my tap dance. I have never taken a tap class until I came to Shockout and my grades have proven that it is something I could work towards having another skill in. I feel like my tap has really improved this last semester and it will only keep on improving. Another skill I have become better at is being more open to styles of dance and performing. For example, I have never sung before coming to Shockout too and we have just completed a musical theatre exam which I was surprised by that I could sing, dance and act together. I came as a shock to me when my teachers and other students were approaching me about my singing as I always thought I couldn’t sing. Now I have become more open to new ideas I am finding out I have more skills in performing than I originally knew about myself. These aspects will only carry on growing and becoming a new focus point within my training.

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2.       My weaknesses in the Core Techniques Module are: My weakness would be my ballet training. This is because I have never studied ballet before coming to Shockout Arts, therefore I had no classical training. However, in the 2 years I have been studying at Shockout my ballet technique has improved so much as you can see in video number 1. This video shows me in my second year. There areas till things to work on much as my flexibility to get my extensions higher in my legs as well as my pirouettes a they are still a working progress. These weaknesses are slowly becoming improvements as I am working on them everyday to get my ballet technique to a higher standard. Another weakness would be my confidence in my ballet training. I do not feel comfortable dancing classical ballet as I feel my body type isn’t right for it, so my confidence drops immensely. The two focus points for me are pirouettes and my flexibility. I believe that if I was flexible and could have clean, strong pirouettes my dancing would improve rapidly in all styles not just the classical lessons.

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1.      My own strengths in the Core Techniques Module are: I would say my main strengths are contemporary and commercial. These styles are the ones I been training in for over 8 years now and it’s what I feel most comfortable in. Commercial and contemporary were the first two genres I was put into at my dance school and this is  what I carried out with through high school, college and now at university. For example, in contemporary I am good at exploring abstract movements with my body and experiment with new ways of moving as well as being able to portray a strong character or story behind the choreography. I connect well with the movement and music and give off a clear intention as to what the choreography is about. I feel that one of my strengths in contemporary dance is the freedom to express myself and I take that opportunity with both hands as in these lessons during my training is where I don’t think too much about my technique but just let go a dance and tell a story through my movement. Another strength of mine would be my commercial training. I feel comfortable in most aspects of commercial/ hip hop, and I would say that a strong point in my training would be my ability to freestyle without feeling embarrassed or nervous when under pressure of an audience. This is only a strength of mine as I have been training in this style for 8 years now, whereas if it was a new style to me It would be a weakness, however I have developed my freestyle skills and my overall performance skills during my training at Shockout Arts further.

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