2ND November (Cunningham Bounces in Parallel)

In this lesson we extended on our Cunningham exercises, we done this as it helps us make our dance more various and also work more parts of the body. In this exercise we are working on our alignment by extention of the arms and legs. We are also working on control through our bounces which also helps our back flexibility. We work on the use of 'Headlights' (keeping hips still) throughout the exercise your hips face mainly to the front & in our extention of the exercise we work on our control through twists which also helps with spotting and finally we work on elevation through our pushing off the floor.

As we have done this exercise a few times now I feel we have all improved. However this doesnt mean to say we dont still have things we need to improve on. In this video you can't see me clearly till around 0.45 where I can see that my parallel needs to be wider and my curve could be bigger and more clear; although my arm shape is good which show my tension and clarity in my arms has improved.

On the extention we extend our arms and they are meant to be in line with our shoulders at 1.01 mine are not. To improve this I need to check where I am extending my arms too. When pushing off the floor my point is good at 1.02. After this point you can't see my feet but my although my arms are in the wrong place the shape is good as is my tension.

In this exercise my strength are tension in my arms; when I first did this exercise my arms didnt have any tension so this is a good improvement. My next strength is my toe point this has better tension and rises of the floor more.

In this exercise my weaknesses are Alingment in the arms to improve this I need to place my arms in line with my shoulders, also clarity; my moves need to be clearer and when holding a position it should look like a still image. Finally my evelation could be bigger.

Targets:

• Wider Parallel- Check my feet are in the right position before starting.
• Alingment in Arms- Again checking before Istart; place my arms dont just put them anywhere
• Clarity- I think this will improve when I become more confident with the exercises (also the loose top doesn't help!)
• Evelation- I need to push off more !