Intro to Jazz Dance: Class #15

Intro to Jazz Dance: Class #15

Week 9: Tuesday Session

I'm beginning to see how the process of learning choreography works better. The more I practice, even imperfectly the better it goes, and the more i can refine it over time. Also, spotting. Our teacher is spamming spotting in class, so it's time to practice up. Seems to be a core skill here.

Intro to Jazz Dance: Class #13

Intro to Jazz Dance: Class #13

Week 7: Tuesday session

The practice I did on the choreography over the weekend paid off! While I didn't get all the moves 100% right, it was enough to keep up a lot better than I have been prior to this. Time to keep up the pressure!!

Intro to Jazz Dance: Class 14

Intro to Jazz Dance: Class 14

Week 8: Thursday Session

Today before class, I did 1000 sword tosses and some of juggling practice. (including my new "blade squat toss" technique). As such, my "viewing beyond the mountain" technique activated, which had amazing results during dance class. The movements of both the instructor, and the other students just seemed so much slower some how, which allowed me to keep up with the motion and the instruction so much better. 

As far an things to practice for next class:

The choreography

The wavy stand thing

The new steping variants

General conditioning

Intro to Jazz Dance: Class #12

Intro to Jazz Dance: Class #12

Week 6: Thursday Session

Started a new phrase. Very flowy. I'm told it's Jenna, our teacher's native style. Practicing up, and this one really "makes sense" to me motion wise. gonna practice up and be ready to knock this one out of the park :)

Intro to Jazz Dance: Class #11

Intro to Jazz Dance: Class #11
Week 5 thursday session

finished the phrase. didn't have it memorized as well as i'd like, but I was able to "fake" it enough to follow along fairly well. I also decided that I really, really need to study the combos/choreography more.

Intro to Jazz Dance: Class #10

Intro to Jazz Dance: Class #10
Week 5, Tuesday Session

Just about done with our current phrase. (we finish on thursday)

What i've noticed is that while perception wise I can "fake" keeping up with the choreography (only mostly) my big limiter on being able to master it is having the combo's down 100%. Up to this point I've been practicing individual moves on my own time. It's time to practice moves in succession with each other, and then work on composing the whole phrase on my own time as well.