Practice doesn't make it perfect

When your in a dance you are constantly compared to the other people in the dance as well. They judge you on everything, your height of your leg extensions, how fast you turn, how well you stay with the others, etc etc. On monday I had ballet. There are only two of us on  that perform the harder part of the dance. We showed the owner and long behold we don't look the same. She has higher leg extensions, but I have the fire behind them.  One downside is that you can not fix how the other people may dance. When I dance I give it my all, but others don't always do the same. Its irritating that people can in turn make the dance look bad. Which leads into Tuesday... On Tuesday my modern class is an interesting mix. Lets just say even our teacher said that some students have two left feet. If two dancers are being compared one dancer could be having all the wrong steps but if they put emotion behind it and have a purpose it will look better than a girl who could do 50 turns, thats called passion and thats what dancers need. I'll leave you with this quote to think about.. "A dancer doesn't just learn the steps, but learns the soul and story of the piece."

Ballet, Pointe, and Modern oh my!

Practice, practice, practice. The typical life of a dancer.  I headed back to dance this week after having two weeks off for Christmas Break. Let me tell you, breaks away from dance are the worst thing to have. On Monday I had ballet, for the warm up session Larissa and I are the only ones allowed to wear pointe shoes..lucky us. For those of you who don't know what pointe shoes are, there like ballet shoes made out of ribbon with a flat rectangular bottom with cement in them. Sound painful yet? Well we have to wear these blue gel covers for our feet so basically our toes don't break off.. yay!
 A typical ballet class consists of a warm up, stretching, demonstrating across the floor, learning a dance or combination, then we curtsy at the end and clap for a job well done. Well I don't want to explain everything now so I'll write more later. Enjoy!