Dance Argument Analysis

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Dance takes real skill because technique is needed to execute the dance positions correctly. In my 7th grade dance class of 2013, Mrs.Kim our dance teacher was having us work on the technique of attitude turns. We would go across the floor in paris of two as we prep for an attitude turn then land in 4th position and prep again and do a double attitude turn. Adding an extra turn every time and landing in 4th position until we would reach the end of the room. When it came to mine and my partner’s turn, my partner had some difficulty. After our second pair of turns Mrs.Kim stopped us and told her to lift her leg into a back attitude position, then proceeded to tell her that she was lifting her hip instead up pushing it down therefore causing her …show more content…

Dancer’s need to be able to turn out at their hip in order to have a good alined turn out in your foot. This is essential for turns such as Pirouettes, Fouetté, Piqué, Tours Châinés, Pique and many others. A dancer also needs resilience to be able to do audited turns, these turns are one of the most fundamental turns of dance. Therefore the importance of being able to execute an audited turns correctly is often stressed by dance teachers. A dancer needs to be able to turn our and lift their hip at a 90 degree or higher during an audited turn. In my current dance class of 2016, when we are going across the floor in pairs of two doing our tuns if one of us does the turns wrong we have to go back and start again. Most of the time it is because one of us dancers forgot to push our leg out in turn out or let our point fall out and didn’t pull up in our core for our turns so the turn looks wrong and weak. I first leaned about the true importance of audited turns during a dance convection. It was April 2015 me and 20 other dancers went to a dance convection in Palms Springs. At this dance convection one of the dance teachers was explaining the importance audited turns. She explained that we needed both resilience and technique for these turns. She then told us if we couldn’t get this easy fundamental turn correct then we wouldn't be a professional dancer. She said if the basic techniques and resilience needed for an audited wasn’t second nature to us dancers then we should either give up or go back to the basics and work harder to be a skillful

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