12/20/2023 0 Comments Week 8: DanceDuring this week, Kathryn Harpe taught us how to dance. We learned the beginning positions of ballet, how to leap, and turn. Kathryn states that ballet terminology sets the basics for everything else, so we started with that. There are 5 positions. You start in parallel, then turn them out for 1st position. You tendu it out for 2nd position. 3rd position looks like a bookmark, you tuck your heel into the area of the middle of your foot. 4th position you just step it out. You then close it back, so your heel goes into your toe for 5th position. All the dance ballet terms are French. Tiptoe is relevé There are different types of pilé. There is demi pilé and demi pilé. There are arm positions to go with the ballet positions. We did some different types of kicks. We did tendu, degage, and Batma. We learned how to do a jazz square, those were very easy. We learned a few types of tap shuffles. Next, we learned different types of leap. We learned a chassé, which is like a gallop, we learned a straight leap, and we learned a calypso. Lastly, we learned a surprise leap. You act like you will leap to the side and then last minute turn to the front. We lastly learned how to turn. We started off with a pirouette. That is just like a typical turn. We then attempted to learn how to fotettés. The hardest part for us was probably the leaps. They were just pretty confusing and it was hard to kick up high while in a jump. The turns were definitely not the easiest either. Fotettés were not at all easy. We all said that dancing seems like it would be a lot of fun overall but we just don’t
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