Dance Phrase 3 pictures of difficult movements

This position is done on the RIGHT version of the phrase. As I am havint balance on my left arm I find it difficult. This is why I usually keep my foot on the floor as in this picture in order to focus on keeping my hips in parallel to the floor and keep my head to tail connection without twisting out of place.

Sometimes, if I have my balance slightly better I do begin to take my foot off the floor but I would rather keep it on the floor than go out of enlignment.

This is me on the LEFT version of the phrase I find it so much easier to do it on this side and don't hesitate in taking my foot of the floor. My lower back has quite an arch to it so I need to be more careful in positions like this.

This is me doing the backwards roll as I mentioned in the previous post for Dance Phrase 3 you can see how I can't get the lower part of my left arm on the floor. The lower picture shows the other side with the same problem.

Dance Phrase 3

This is a phrase that we have been doing in Studio Practise with Andrea Barzey. This is just showing the right version of the phrase. I generally like learning phrases and have quite a good memory for phrases and pick them up fairly quickly. Despite this I am not particularly fond of this sequence. The phrase itself is nice to perform as it flows quite well and looks closely at the head to tail connection. However, I have so many difficulties due to my left arm. Most of the phrase I'm fine with yet there are two specific movements that I struggle with. The first can be seen at 29 seconds. We have to balance on our same arm/ leg with our other arm/leg lifted. When we do it on the right side i have to balance on my left side. Because I can't straighten my left arm and the placement at the shoulder isn't quite right i can't take my weight. At first I twisted my hips to compensate so I could lift my right leg. But after thinking about the head to tail connection I decided that it would be more beneficial to me if i left my foot on the ground and kept my pelvis parallel to the ground.
The other movement is the backwards roll seen at 38 seconds. For this roll we are meant to slowly take our legs above and over and head and use our hands/arms to push us slowly and gently over rather than using force to get us over. However. my arm prevents me from being able to do this. When I am in this position I am unable to put most of my arm on the floor, meaning I am unable to push myself over. In order to work around this I do have to rely on some force to get me over.
Although, I am so self-concious about this phrase, when I have partnered up to get feedback for the movement they are always surprised by my attitude as to them they don't think I'm doing it much different to everyone else. This has made me realise that although I may be painfully aware of my arm others don't actually notice it that much.

Above is part of my notes from one of the studio classes.

Feedback for SO dance phrase 2

This is a video of Rebecca Curtis giving me feedback on a dance phrase we did (SOJMRC2). It was very useful as the information could be translated into all the dance movement I do. In particular the thing about my ribs. I don't do it all the time but sometimes in rises or swinging movements when the arms are above my head my ribs jut forward and I neeed to be more aware of this.

Dance Phrases

The videos posted are of dance phrases learnt in lessons. The dancers are Shannon O'Dowd (me!), Julia McCaughley and Rebecca Curtis. We practised them in our own time focusing on the elongating of the spine, a floating skull and general placement of the body. By filming ourselves we were able to provide ourselves with another form of feedback. I particularly found that I hold a lot of tension in the neck which I need to learn to release. Also I found the low level phrase quite difficult when I needed to take my weight on to my left arm due to the problems with my arm and shoulder blade. However, from the frequent rigour of dance and continuous practise of the phrase it has become easier for me.

Dance Phrase 2

Dance Phrase

dance phrase 2