Today kicked my butt.  My knee high socks (hand me down from Henry) were too big, too sticky on the marley, and didn’t show the pointing of my toes enough so I’m switching back to my adidas no-shows.  My contacts dried up and were bothering me for half the class so I’m switching from Pure Vision back to Acuvue Oasis (<3 Oasis).  I got a blister on my foot yesterday too so that didn’t help much.  Overall, my turning was off.  This was unfortunate because we ended up doing a lot of turns today.

Derek asked the class what we wanted to learn the most.  We had only two classes left and he wanted to make sure we got what we wanted out of the class.  Of course, our class said we wanted to really get our turning technique down.  This was something I really wanted for myself.  I need to get the push off, the spotting, the balance, the momentum and the form down.  So far, I could do PK turns all the way from the left side of the room to the right but doing any sort of combination messes me up as I found out today.

Our across the floor exercise consisted of: Chaînés Turn, Coupé Turn, PK Turn, Compass Turn, then do the same turning the other direction.

We also learned how to do a Lyrical Pirouette.  He noted that it was especially important to get the prep down for this to work.  We prepped with a Tendu to second position, Demi Plie in fourth, then Passé.  After getting this down, we replaced the Passé with the actual turn.  Its pretty similar to what I had in a youtube video from my last posting on the Dance category.  Execution was hard for me to do.  It was most important to spot.  Overally I think I can execute turns fine as long as I have good socks and I take my time.  I can’t do it one after another very quickly though =/.

Our Routine:  Beautiful Disaster (Live) By Kelly Clarkson

1. Jeté leap towards the Right
2. Coupé
3. Chaînés Turn towards the Left
4. Rond de jambe right foot towards back to prep.
5. Floor Roll on butt towards Right.
6. Passé left foot up
7. Crouch down.
8. Dance step right then left foot clockwise from back to front.
9. Relevé left foot while right foot does a Développé forward.
10. Compass turn counterclockwise back to front.
11. Passé right foot up.
12. Point right foot forward.
13. Step backwards on right foot dragging left foot pointing forward.
14. Step backwards on left foot dragging right foot pointing forward.

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