Reflective Essay On Dance

Despite the fact that ballet is a completely new challenge for me, I managed to learn the choreographies and movements. From the videotaped performance I was able to identify the dance technique aspects that need to be improved for further correction. Although several elements, such as turns, port de bras, spatial awareness, movement quality and dynamic range require work; there are also aspects that were improved through practice.
The turns, composed by either chaines, piques, or pirouttes, are the elements that, from my perspective, are required to be addressed with higher priority among others. In the videotape, it is easy to identify the mistakes made when performing these movements. From these mistakes, I believe that the most critics are the position of the arms and the motion of the legs. For example, in the third combination performed, during the chains sequence, the speed of the choreography was slowed down due to the incongruity of the steps and the turns. Also, I noticed that there was a large space in between my feet during each turn, which made the movement to last longer. Therefore, since the chaines weren’t performed correctly, I was delayed in one count, which made me not follow the tempo

During the second combination performed, the arms played an important role in defining the quality of the choreography, and even though I was able to correctly switch the positions, the muscular energy was not enough. As a result, the arms were not accurately aligned and the overall performance didn’t look harmonious. Similarly, during the chaine/pique combination the position of the arms gives the movement a distinct feature. In the videotape, I was able to recognize the lack of this feature since the arms were not properly extended or elevated. Finally, during the pirouette combination the arms were not synchronized with the leg movements, nor aligned or properly