I feel that “work” in any dance class Ballet or any other is about the physical and mental rigors that that each individual must create for themselves in any class that they are taking. In class you must be both mentally and physically engaged to progress your training. If you simply are passive in class without thought or consideration about what your body is doing how do you know if you are using the right muscles to perform actions? Without a thought how could you know if your hips knees and feet are in alignment under your shoulders? You need to know where every part of your body is within space. Your mind is moving from focusing on your pelvic alignment to thinking about the correction you were given about how you spot your turn. This rigor of using both your physicality and mentality continues outside the studio as well with outside training (conditioning) and working on personal corrections.
As we begin a new school year, new classes and new teachers, my goal is to work on adding more of that outside training. I feel in class sometimes that I take two steps forward and three steps back at times. If I work on strengthening my body particularly my core and rotators I feel that I would be able to progress faster in class and not have to have the same correction more than once.
Elyse Morckel
I completley agree. Often times I find myself grasping concepts mentally but they sometimes they never register with my body physically. On the other hand, when I'm not concentrating on my movement I find that alot of things are out of alignment. It takes that balance of putting just as much into the movement mentally as well as physically and finding the way for your body to communicate through both.
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