Alignment

Alignment ( as relates to more Eurocentric dance practices) and I have had a painfully strained relationship throughout my dance training. Not having a great amount of rotation in my hips, having a pelvis that sits comfortably behind my spine most times, and not very much flexibility in my back or hamstrings, trying to make my body work the way it should in ballet class without compensating my alignment is exhausting. I hear voices from dance teachers past about my how my hips are back and I'm not rotated when I'm corrected on alignment. I've gotten better about it by a long shot, but it's and uphill battle and I'm at the point where I still can't see the top of the hill and quite frankly, it would just be easier to sit down and slide back downhill. I've felt the alignment inside of me working properly at very few points in my life, but mostly during ballet class, I fall short of the mark in that department. I think finding what it is suppossed to look like in my body instead of trying to base my interpretation of "the ballet aesthetic" off of extremes (ex. 360 degree turn out) can help me to acheieve my goals in ballet, and in the greater dance world as well.