Dance informance!

Hiiii!
The semester is alomost over!!
We've finished our informance choreography in ballet--unfortunately, no tombe pas de bourree glissade saut de chat for me. Instead I am do partnering though, which will be really fun! The choreography is really great and its going to look so good! So far it seems that the only thing I have to practice a bit more is the balonces (sp). it something Ive never done before and I feel like I look a bit silly doing them. Other than that, I have the choreography down and I just need to practice performing it. I can't wait!
SO, to wrap up the semester, I had a great time in my three dance classes. I only have 1 ballet class left before the final, and I have 2 classes left in Modern and Jazz. I feel like i have learned SO much this semester, in all three classes. In ballet, I learned a lot about my body awareness, now to hold my muscles a certain way when I'm dancing and many building blocks and vocabulary words that will help me so much next year. I still need to work on maintaining my turn out at all times, and remembering to hold my abs in!
My favorite things I learned this semester in Ballet was learning to do ballet pirouettes correctly (I liked the combo: tombe, pas de bourree ,pirouette), as well as learning the tombe....saut de chat combination (even though I didn't get to do it), improving my flexibility, and of course, the informance choreography!



xx Natalie
I can't wait until this summer and next semester when I can learn even more!

tombe, pas de bourree, glissade, saut de chat

So, dance has been pretty awesome the past few weeks. In Ballet and Jazz, we are now to a point where we are spending nearly all of the class time rehearsing for the Dance Informance, which I LOVE. Jazz's West Side Story is going quite nicely; very fun, upbeat and exciting.
For ballet, our informance piece is to a quick latin song--quite a contrast from the traditional classical music one might be used to hearing. It is great because it combines classical moves in a way that goes well with the latin music and is very fun and exciting. Last week Amy asked me if I could do tombe, pas de bouree, glissade, saut de chat across the floor (something more advanced than the regular Ballet 1 coursework). I knew how to do each step of it, but i had never assembled them. So my job over Easter break was to practice and see if i could put it together. If not, I will be doing chaines across the floor instead (no fun!)
So I have been practicing, and I think ill be able to do it! it really fun. Heres a video, at least of the glissade and saut de chat (the beginning is a bit different):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSigOhHDJ2Y

yay! hopefully I can do this is the informance!