good ol Sullivant

In an effort to avoid sounding whiny, I want to express how much I miss Sullivant Hall not only for the advantage in seeing nearly everyone in the department on a regular basis in the halls before and after classes, but for the precious mirrors and floors.
This year in ballet I have been forced to feel and experience real proper alignment in my own self-discipline without the assistance of mirrors on one or multiple walls. In modern I have found this to be somewhat advantageous for me because I have an awful habit of being easily distracted by my hair or clothes, or how the movement looks to my eyes. This year none of that matters because all I have to do is trust the work that I am doing and the alignment that I feel. Having had more experience with modern and having it "in my body" more, I feel like not having the ability to check out what I'm doing in a mirror has been beneficial. Ballet on the other hand, is a different story.
Because my pelvic region has not yet adapted to the proper, stable place it needs to remain in throughout the entirity of a ballet class, I have found that being in 205 in Pom has been a good thing. I don't rely on the mirrors there as much (does anyone else think those are fat mirrors or is it just me?) but it has been immensly helpful to glance over and self-correct during barre as well as in center. I know it's impossible to watch and correct every student at every second of the class, so self-correcting is a vital part of ballet, and every style of dance. I believe that my brain can detect when I'm out of place but my body doesn't know how to detect that quite yet.
Although the silly distractions from class have been eliminated along with the mirrors, I find that they are still a vital aspect to my growth in ballet. I realize that my only real option is to force proper alignment into my muscle memory as quickly as possible!