Session Two Day Seven (TR)

Class One Jazz (Younger):
This class went really well! My one dancer is progressing quite well and I think I'm going to start her on some harder things. We did leaps, kicks, pirouettes, chaines, and leaps, and I think she could do stag leaps as well. She is doing better with the hip hop routine and told me that she has been practicing it. She is doing really well, I'm very excited to get to continue to work with her!

There was another applicant today, and she did really well! She came at four and stayed until partway through the second class. She had a good aerobic warm up, and got along well with the students. It was very fun to see them interact with a new teacher, and it was nice to have someone there to help give corrections and keep the class going.

Class Two Jazz (Older):
This class went well today too! We worked on pirouettes, kicks, leaps, chaines and began learning side leaps today. I've had them do 8 counts of kicks and 8 counts of free dancing, and am trying to work them up to counting on their own. It's kind of fun, and I think this will be an excellent way to teach them how to count music and do each movement on the assigned count. They are doing really well with their hip hop dance, and are all very excited to learn the whole thing!

We had a talk today about failure. Some of the dancers seemed a little frustrated about their progress, and so I decided that it was time for a talk. I told them a story about when I was learning to ice skate from a professional ice skater, and she said that if we weren't falling, we weren't learning. We then talked about what this means in dance. I told them that it doesn't matter how many times we don't get it quite right as long as we keep trying. They took it a little bit literally, (there was a lot of talk about falling when we dance) but I think it helped. The rest of the class seemed to go smoother, and they all seemed determined to keep trying to progress.

Session Two Day Six (MW)

Class One General Dance:
This class went very well today! I have one applicant come in to help assist with the class. She was very good with the kids, had an excellent combination, and did really well keeping their attention. She was an excellent assistant and just jumped in to assist, answer questions and give corrections wherever necessary. The class went really well and was really fun! We worked on plies, tendus, rond de jambs, kicks, chines and leaps. It was especially nice to have help getting everyone turning the correct way on their chaines and keep everyone in line while waiting for their turn.

Class Two Ballet (ages 5-8):
I had another applicant come assist for this class, and she did well too. She was less comfortable with the young kids, but she gave very good corrections, and kept them all in line very well.
We worked on plies, tendus, rond de jambs, kicks, leaps, center tendus, and chaines. The class definitely did better having another teacher there. We were able to divide up giving individual corrections and leading the class, and it worked a lot better! I am so excited to have help running this class!

Class Three Ballet (ages 9-12):
We still only have one girl here (I don't think her friend is going to show up) but I don't think I could merge her with the younger class. We worked on plies, tendus, rond de jambs, releves,