Movement & Dance- October 7

A grand battement devant.

This is weird. I feel like I don't have anything to say about this class that I haven't already said in another journal.

1. I still hate my arms. That said, I've noticed I've started getting more "flourishy" with my arms, and adding in little movements at the beginning of an exercise. Steph hasn't said anything about it, positive or negative, and I see some of the other girls do it occasionally, so maybe this is an okay thing to do.

2. I'm literally screwing up the same 3 bloody things every week. I bend my knees when I start to tendu because I still think of figure skating. My grand battements are still lope-sided. I honestly don't even have a "this is why", it just happens. I have to consciously think about where my legs are in relation to the barre, or else I'll have one leg going 6 inches off the ground, and the other will go a metre up.

3. I still slip up and forget what sport I'm doing. I imagine that when watching me dance you can effortlessly tell when my brain goes from "Ballet" to "Figure Skating" because my legs will go from "straight and graceful" to "bent and ready for stroking". I promise you, it's not intentional, my lizard brain just keeps kicking in.

OH! I'm dumb and I lied. Of all things I thought would come easy, I never expected doing a grand battement to a polka to be one of them. I have absolutely no clue how or why, but when Christobelle started playing and we went, my body just sort of did it. I didn't even think about it, it just happened. That was a pretty spectacular feeling, and it did help with the confidence. In fairness though, coordination to music is never something I've struggled with, because since I started figure skating, two of the big focal points were to find the musicality in a movement, and to find where and how the movement fits in a piece of music.

I apparently had a lot to say. Cool.