Checklist for Learning Combinations #8: Study My Videos
February 21, 2013
Some of you who are adult beginners (or former dancers returning to class) find it difficult to remember and execute center combinations and you’ve asked if I can help you. I’ve come up with a checklist for Learning Combinations which you will see in my first eight posts.
If you find you’re tripping over your feet, can’t keep up with the music, and lose your concentration and can’t remember the sequence of movement, it may not be because you can’t remember, but more because you may have some technical issues.
Now that you’ve seen the first seven posts, the final and most important advice is that you Study My Videos.
If you find what I’ve said in the earlier blogs helpful, then I strongly encourage you to use my instructional videos.
In every one of my videos, I give each exercise, it is demonstrated by a professional, and I stand by correcting. The ideas I’ve given you in these blogs are bare outlines of what I give you in great detail in each video.
Especially in the Centerwork videos—Level 1, Level 2, Level 3, Level 4 Centerwork on Jumps—you are going to see many different exercises where you’ll get to practice our body positions and directions and learn exactly where to put your feet.
In each video I show you everything you need to know and tell you exactly how to do it.
But even more than that, remember that when you watch a video you can look at it in slow motion, which is something you can’t do in class. You can’t see the teacher in slow motion. You can’t study other dancers in slow motion.
With a video, you can study in slow motion and all of a sudden you realize that you can see exactly where the foot goes, and where the supporting shoulder is. And when you begin studying like this by yourself, you will gain an understanding that is priceless, because you can’t get this in any class.
I hope you will continue to give me your suggestions because we do want to continue making these blogs for you which will help you to be a better dancer.
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Have a good day!
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Hi Finis I’ve been told recently that I need to push my pelvis forward and that I shouldn’t arch I tend to do this when I pirouette and I also raise my shoulders so it becomes a disaster although I sometimes get them and I can get the balance on passé can you help me
Ivy, it sounds like you are not using correct posture with an understanding of how to use your weight and energy. Please invest in PIROUETTE CLASS 2, which should help you solve these problems
Thank you Finis for all your inspiring videos! I was wondering could you do a blog series about extension? For some reason I feel there are studios that have amazing extensions and then there are others (like mine) where many of us can barely get over 90. Is there some magic formula or information we are missing to get our legs higher? Thanks again. P.S. I don’t think it is a flexibility issue because I have both splits and an quite flexible.