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4 step ball changes 2 half pas de bouree 2 full pas de bouree with arms

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twist your feet as you step, travelling from one corner of the room to the other, shimmer your hand up your body over and out back round to start again.

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Windmill turns, left and right side
chenne turns right and left side
Pose turns right then left side

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kick for 8 forward ( low, 90 degrees, high)
kick to the side for 8 (low, 90 degrees, high)
repeat to the front for 4
repeat to side for 4
repeat to front for 2
repeat to the side for 2

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Justin Timberlake - SexyBack (Official Video) ft. Timbaland

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4 forward pas de bouree
half turn to the back
half to the front
quarter turn to the right side then half turn to the left side
gallop with jazz arms quarter turn to the right side three quarter turn to the back
gallop to the right quarter turn half turn gallop
2 chenne turn gallop out of it
pas de bourree to prepare for pirouette
pivot step back to the front to repeat on the other side.

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Run for four counts . Jump for four counts
Run for four counts, jump and rotate round (right)
Run for four jump and rotate for four (left)
Run for four reach down (4, right, left)
Run for four reach up ( 4 right left)
Run for four reach up & down (2 down 2 up)
click for four (straight) box step click to change direction
click and sway with head, box step with head straight repeat then move on the click with sway
arms l positions switch side x2 (right then left)
arms in L positions switch side x2 (left then right)

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from one corner of the room to the other
normal drag runs
drag run with arm isolation
drag runs with elevation
Drag runs combination

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Caro Emerald - That Man (Official Video)

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in week one of jazz I was more focused on getting the movement correct then thinking about the technique after.

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From the corner facing the door
Three arms to cross foot and cross right leg of left to turn, on the world breeze slide into split with arms fan kick to the right into back arch arm and leg stretch at the same time, fan kick to the left and kick shoulder stand to stand drag walk for 4 walk back for 4. Step through and arms push up and over repeat two more times one to the back and one to the front to return to where you began. 2 slide facing the same way then one slide facing the opposite way half pas de bouree half pas de bouree full pas de bouree full pas de bouree back other way, step rise with angular arm, then with a push then with a l shape as twist round side step with a shoulder sway then move to the right doing 4more, two step kick back with steps in between, twist and kick to layout, down to the floor

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Two ball changes with three leaps, small medium and full
One side flick leap the other side swish leap

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7 kicks alternate last kick slide into split (both sides)

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Single kicks forwards
Single kicks backward with a jazz arm
Kick combination

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Jazz slide alernating side each time

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Jazz slide from one corner of the room to the other

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Michael Jackson - The Way You Make Me Feel (Official Video)

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in week one of jazz I was more focused on getting the movement correct then thinking about the technique after.

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This week I noticed that I bent my supporting knee when kicking my leg up so this is one of the things I need to focus and work of improving for the assessment, I’ll do this by looking in the mirror while practising, pulling up and keeping my knee straight.

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week three was more of me focusing on things I has noticed throughout the last couple of weeks with other exercises, including this one. So I didn’t have much to think about other than keeping my knee straight and only going as high as possible without straining myself.

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Lady Gaga - Telephone ft. Beyoncé (Official Music Video)

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Michael Jackson - Billie Jean (Official Video)

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Song we are dancing too

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Moon and Back (Official Music Video) by Alice Kristiansen

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From one corner of the room to another step ball change with a rise

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Lady Gaga - Bad Romance (Official Music Video)

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From one corner of the room to another step ball change with two high two low

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Step ball change with rotating hip -Santa Maria 

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Step ball change with rotating hip -Santa Maria 

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From corner to corner travel across the room isolating the hip

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Small leaps alternating from one side of the room to the other repeating on the other side

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For elevated step ball changes (4) across the room

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Beyoncé - Run the World (Girls) (Official Video)

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what to think about when doing this exercise 

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what to think about when doing this exercise 

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make sure you elevate off the floor and work your foot back down
Make sure that you go through plié when jumping off the floor

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in week one of jazz I was more focused on getting the movement correct then thinking about the technique after.

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In the second week of this exercise i knew what I needed to improve on and what I needed to think about when doing the exercise, I also needed to correct my posture as I was leaning forward slightly.

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During week three I decided just to focus on the things that I had already noticed that I need to improve on which was to roll through my feet so that I don’t make a noise when my heel touches the floor, also making sure that my posture is correct and that I’m not leaning forward or backwards.

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Week four I felt like I had accomplished the targets I set myself in the previous weeks I also thought of others to focus on before the assesment and this was to make sure I fully extended when we reach out hand up and stretch my leg out the opposite way. I will correct myself in the mirror and ask some to look and change any of my positions just so that I am able to feel the difference between how I was doing it to how it should be done.

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this week as it was a week until our assessment we did a practise run of all of the exercises we would be doing for our assessment, this will get us prepared of ow long and tiring the assessment will be and give us an insight to what we need to work on for the next week.

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Side ball change × 4

Forwards step ball changes × 4
back wards side ball change × 4

Backwards step ball change × 4 step ball change ×4
Elevated step ball change × 4

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Step ball change for 4
in a circle travel with sharp low arms,
High arms flow
Low arms sharp

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Michael Jackson - Beat It (Official 4K Video)

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In week one of jazz I was more focused on getting the movement correct then thinking about the technique after.

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this exercise was combining different step ball changes and pas de bourree one ting i needed to focus on this was to make sure that my third step in the pas de bouree needed to be the accent move so when doing the third step I needed to make it more obvious.

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This exercise i feel that i was able to master the third step accent and i feel that i was able to make the exercise to where i was comfortable with it. so i looked at other ways of improving it. i needed to work on my spotting as this will help me get round faster when turning.

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learning this exercise was the hardest one to get the grips of, i would be able to walk it through but when it come to doing it with music i just couldn't get the hang of it. so it would be a case of recording someone doing it correctly and my learning it in my own time so that by the time it comes to the assessment i know it well enough to be able to perform it.

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this week I went over and thought about all the technique elements of the exercise and worked on those as we executed to exercises in the lesson

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From watching videos that we had recorded I could see in this exercise that I didn't have the correct posture, as we did it twice I could see myself in the mirror so I used this to make sure I was in the correct alignment, and feel what it would be like when doing it on the other side

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in this exercise i felt that i hadn't improved on my posture so i carried on working on that rather than jumping to something else.

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after getting the hang of it last week i was beginning to get the sense of how ti should be done and what technique should be used when doing this exercise. One thing I do need to make is to keep my hips square on when needed.

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this week i really had an understanding of what kind of technique needed to be used keeping your centre of gravity down but keeping your back straight at the same time. although i knew what it was i did struggle to do both of these at the same time.

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this week was just getting the hang of the exercise and knowing each exercise as there was five different versions of this exercise so remembering the order and the technique used i needed just a couple of weeks to understand them.

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As I got to grips with this exercise i could really work on the technique and the benefits of the exercise. one of hem was to use the space and travel across the room, to keep my thighs in and keeping the movement tight and compact.

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I worked on the targets i set and worked on then for a few weeks and i feel by this week I had improved more than i thought I would, I elevated more and kept my heels together. I also was able to keep my focus on spot.

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from the start of this exercise i knew that i needed to improve my spotting and this would help me stay in a straight line, so i really needed to focus through the exercise to focus on one certain spot while doing it.

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this wasn't a target that i would be able to fix straight away so i will have to keep working on it and record myself when i'm doing it to see if i have improved. when doing the windmill turns i needed to relaxed my arm more as i feel that being tight and stiff isn't going to help when going in a straight line.

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by changing the way i use my arms and relaxing more in the windmill turn i was able to be more accurate and it looked better when watching it back. i also worked on whipping my head round so that i will help me spot if i do this correctly.

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this was an exercise that i was able to do from the get go it was an easy one to remember so i just needed to focus on, as i am not so flexible my last leap wasn't so great but that will come over time and giving myself time to stretch and improve my flexibility.

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week two of doing this exercise i needed to know the difference between each size of the three leaps. i watched myself in the mirror when doing this so that i knew the difference and how the different leaps felt at the different angles and what body muscles needed to be used.

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when working on the leaps and how they should look i didn't like that facts that my highest one isn't as high as i would like it to be. i feel that leaps wont be a quick fix so i will have to keep working on them up until and after the assessment

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the slides seem easy at first but they were quite fast so when getting the hang of it it was hard to do it to the music but i did it a couple of times.

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i feel that because i need the steps i could really work on improvements, such as looking at my hard when i slide out. stretching out as much as i could extending out my leg and arms.

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this week i feel that i improved the targets i made last week and i didn't feel that i needed to work on anything as i had had chosen at least one thing to improve on.

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As i had done this exercise before I had and idea of what the exercise was, so it was a case of getting mt leg as high as possible but keeping control of then leg as it goes up, i also need to keep control when whipping round to start the sequence again. as i loose my balance but this means that i wouldn't be i time with the music.

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This week I was concentrating on whipping round and keeping my balance, I feel using the spotting technique like in the turns will help me keep my balance when doing this exercise. so i began practising when in lesson and choosing a point to focus on.

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this week I carried on working on whipping round and keeping my balance as this is essential when it comes to this exercise.

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I really enjoyed doing this exercise and i was able to travel around the room and start performing the exercise is well as doing the technique. the only thing i would change is i need to be strong with my arms and make sure that i go with the music.

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when doing the exercise i feel that i was able to rectify the targets i made within the week i had between the lesson. so i feel that i didn't need to work on them anymore than i did.

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this exercise i know from the start that i would find the split part of the exercise the hardest as i cant get fully down into the splits so this was the main thing i needed to work on. so i needed to stretch and work on pushing down into my splits. i want to also work on sliding down into them as i find tat difficult in my character shoes.

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this time I still feel that i hadn't push myself in the splits so that is still the target I will be working on as i am close to getting a flat split.

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I have chosen to change my target this week and it is now to keep my arms in the correct position and try and keep my arms up within sliding down into split and being able to hold it.

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the second week of doing this exercise was a bit easier, i had learned some of it from the video so i needed to carry on with watching the video and practising with and without the music.

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as it was the last week before the assessment we ran the lesson as if it was the assessment and we ran straight through in the oder we did the in the past few weeks

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i had watched the video enough times to know the movements now it was just a case of making it flow and making it fit with the music as the song is quite fast.

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Within this piece we were required to reconstruct a jazz piece which was call what is jazz, that was originally performed by a group of dancers called Temecula Dance Company that competed in a competition in America called star systems the piece was a jaz style as had some classic elements of jazz movement withing the piece. In total there were thirteen female dancers all aged around 15/16 years of age. The piece is very slick, and they are all in time with each other. We see in the video that there is a mixture of very small in intricate movements as well as high legs, leaps and multiple pirouettes within the piece. As they are all in time with each other and that the movements are very technical we had to pay close attention to where every part of the body was going and what direction they were facing or even the facial expressions. Whilst learning the piece it became very clear that it would be a high intensity performance and we would have to have good stamina as dancers. We learnt the piece by playing it watching in the mirror to make sure that we were facing the right way or making sure that how arms and hard were in the right position working as a team to figure out the choreography. We all worked well as a team to reconstruct the movement and perfect it. Within the choreography there were different sections and a small group of dancers would perform different sections, we split ourselves into groups and began learning the different parts as it looked complicated after we had learnt them we began to piece it together to make it all flow together. As the weeks went on we started to get the hang of the piece we finished reconstructing it and we rougly knew the dance without the video, it was just a matter of polishing it and making sure everyone knew their parts as group and in the smaller sections. The dance was coming to life and as a group we were beginning to enjoy it. I believe that I worked well to learn my section as I am not as technical as others, I’m not able to do the pirouettes or kick my leg up as high as the dancers that were originally performing it. I tried to perfect the movements and make sure that I could keep up with the technical side to the dance. We decided on a costume, we thought that we would wear a black leotard of our choice that had a nice back, nude shimmer tights as well as fishnet tights that were also nude, our shoes would be our character shoes and our hair would be in a slick back ponytail. As we had been doing our normal jazz lesson in character shoes we had already gotten comfortable with the shoes than we were before. So, throughout most rehearsals we would be wearing our character shoes while reconstructing so by the show we would have plenty of practise waring them whilst dancing. we also used hats in the piece, we practised with them throughout so that we got used to using a prop. When using the prop we need to make sure that we had the hat in the correct hand or if it was on our heads if it was in our hands then we needed to have it in the same hand as our group or as a whole group when turning and moving around the stage We also used the same music that they used in the video as we were practising with the soundtrack that had no announcement or clapping we noticed that there was added music and singing this made it hard as the dance wouldn’t match to the correct part of the song so we had to use the original track from the You Tube video so that it was as close to a reconstruction.

Within this piece I had to show some characterisation. I feel that throughout the piece I was able to show moderate signs of characterisation. Whether that was using the hat or even using my facial expressions. I think I was strongest in my characterisation near the start of the piece as tis was the part I was most confident with, I was able to become comfortable and show more characterisation throughout the piece, but I still could have showcase more throughout the whole piece without dipping. I believe the worst part of the piece was the end of the piece, I wasn’t confident with performing the choreography, even though I practised whenever I could I still couldn’t get the ending. If I was to do this dance again I would practise more often in the studio as well as using the hat as a prop just so that I am able to get used to it and be able to perform confidently using a prop. Another strength I had was retaining the movement and be able to perform it to a good standard and the movement also helped bring out some characterisation with the movement.

The overall performance went well as the shows went on I feel we worked better as a group. But I still feel we could have rehearsed more as a group and refined the piece and correcting each other more rather than just discarding the mistake and when could have more practise more with the hats as they were at risk of falling off throughout the performance. I feel that I could have added a lot more characterisation to the performance. If we were to do this again I feel that we could have refined the piece more making sure that the timing was correct as the piece should be slick and the group need to be in time with each other as the beats in the music was different to normal and there were certain beats we needed to hit and in this case some of them weren’t hit.

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Our jazz reconstruction was what is jazz. when we first watched it we loved what it looked like from the very beginning, the choreography was so slick and in time with the music, I loved how smooth the dancer danced together and we all as a group wanted to re create that smoothness and cleanliness of the choreography. we began by re watching the video and separating everyone into groups as they split near the beginning of the piece. I chose to be in group one ans the other group had loads of turns and high legs which i would have been able to pull off.

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we recapped what we had done the previous week ad then we moved on, by this point we had got to the section where the group splits into two groups. so we separated and learn the sections and when we had finished then we had walked it through without music so that we knew which paths people would take. then we tried it with the musics from the beginning and this is where cracks started to show and people were going wrong on different parts so we knew that we just needed to repeat what we done and practise it as much as possible and keep working on this section.

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this lesson we had done majority of the piece it was the next section where we split of into even small groups and there were three, so we did what we did before and split off into our groups and began learning it once we had all learned it we then pieced it together and then we went back to the beginning and worked our way through it. we then would run it with the music.

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as they use a hat in the piece we then had to try it with a hat, we needed to practise with it before the show. so we then had to figure out what hand the hat would go in and it if was going to be on our head at certain point. this part was quite tedious to do as everyone would forget or we would do it full out and someone would go wrong. so this part was a case of going over it multiple times.