Dance Evaluation

I will Evaluate my Grease Dance, and look into my two strengths and two weaknesses, and look into these in order to set myself two targets to improve.

For my grease dance evaluation if feel that one of my physical strengths is my posture and balance. During the dance i picked up that i knew which move i was doing next and what was coming up. This improved my balance, particuarly in in the leg kicks during 'Handjive'. My second strength is a interpretive skill. I feel that i have good musicality, this means that i keep in time with the music and my whole body is in movement with the music. 

However  feel that my flexabilty and co-ordination let me down within the performance. When it came to my lexability i felt that this restricted my abilty to pull off the movements, i feel that if i worked on my flexability i would be able to make my performance smoother. During the song 'Hand-jive' there is a section where we kind are legs in, twise in front that twise behind. This took me time to get it in the right pattern, as my co-orderination was out and this did not feel natural to me. My weekness when it comes to my interpretation skills is my facial exspression and characterisation. This is normally one of my main skills when im performing but when im dancing im focusing so much on what im doing that i forget to add in characterisation.

My two target that i will work on in reflection to the Grease dance are:

1- I will work on my flexablilty mainly in my legs and hip joints, as I want be able able to have more Exstention and raise my leg higher, i will do this by practicing my stretching routine, focusing on my leg stretches at the start of the routine. this will help to improve my muscles and hopefully over time will improve my flexability. I hope to be able to raise and widen my legs by at lest 5cm more in the next month.

2- My second target is to improve my characterisation, mainly my facial exspression as they tend to drift off to a dull exspression when I'm performing. this came up as a big fault in my performance, i hope that as i become better at all of the other skills, and do not need to focus on them during a performance i can spend more time on thinking of charactter traits and feelings during that dance. I will do this by starting to link so characteristics to the moves, I want this to be excellent by the time of the next dance performance.

This is my evaluation table, i will rate my performance skills from needs improvment to excellent:

Posture and Alignment: Good

Flexability: Satisfactory

Stregnth: Satisfactory

Balance:Good

Co-ordernation: Good

Use of Exstention:Very Good

Ability to responce to movement:Very Good

Working with the music:Good

Use of facial exspression:Needs Improvement

Projection (Eyeline): Good 

 Ability to apply a range of dynamics: Good