Started to work on floor work

Need to work on floor work and the breathing exercises- practice outside of lessons

Concentrate on body strength

ankles have improved from last year, but still need improving

need to go over the techniques from first year- practice outside of the lessons

focus on time steps and pickups- making sure the knee is up when doing a pickup

focus on the basics so she could assess what we knew or didn't know/understand

barre work

need to remember to keep straight legs and pointed toes

believe in myself more that i can do it

breathing techniques

pirouettes and the foot focus- with the use of matts

added on to the sequence/movement at the end to a different song including pirouettes

need to keep practicing outside of the lesson to be able to remember the specific movements

learnt new choreo for the 42nd street routine, however need to focus on time steps and riffs and spend time practicing them

positive feedback from Lisa that she can tell that my ankles are improving and getting better

soften knees

Jumping focus- remember to point the foot and not just the toes

Be easy on yourself if you can't do something- Debbie told me 'you've got this'

need to work on the arms arms and where to place them

don't stick bottom out when looking over the fence, straight back

bend the knees with the beach ball exercise

carried on with floor work and leg swings

added a new movement for the leg swings by making yourself tiny

make sure palms are down and legs are in

focus on the class- don't let yourself get distracted

corner work- work in pirouettes/spins and the landing of them

don't get upset when you can't do something

plank for 25 seconds on each side- need to work on arm strength so can do it for longer

more work on the floor with leg swings- make sure palms are flat and you understand what you're doing

new movement work from the side- work on this at home. try to not get dizzy and work on spins to prevent this

we looked at floor work and added a new bit to it

we learnt routines on the left and did more movement work during the fence beach ball exercise

we then focussed on the across the floor routine

Level 2 Musical Theatre

• rond de jambe

• tendu's

• releve

• battement

• passe

• arabesque

we then moved onto centre work and putting these into centre work exercises which helped us focus on centre work and the core body

we looked at jumping and changements and the idea of jumping higher than each other

we then focussed on incorporating the techniques we had learnt throughout the lessons- for example chasses

we then finish the lesson in a circle discussing our achievements from each lesson and the things we need to work on for next lesson

personally i feel like i developed on my broadways and time steps as i practiced these a lot

i focussed on strengthening my ankles and working on bending my knees as this is important in tap and especially with my ankle health and working on getting this better

although i missed a few classes, i worked from home on the steps and rotations in techniques and also trying to speed up however not turning up led me to not knowing a few moves and having to catch up

i also developed in my riffs can now riff up to a 9 beat riff

we then looked at attitudes and back attitudes and turning within an attitude

we also looked incorporating a new warm up routine which which focussed in the centre work and core

furthermore we looked at jazz walks and kicks in jazz which helped us with the choreo routine in which then we did the choreo routine and in this we learnt new techniques and new ways of doing jazz in a style and adding pazaz