Leandrew: A Personal Analysis

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In this piece I am the prissy, rich ballerina/contemporary dancer. I believe that I am the best, so the solo is rightfully mine. My relationship to LeAndrew is that I don’t like or agree with his form of dancing, because it is so much different from the dancing that I am used too. My relationship with Classidy is that we used to be best friends in grammar school,but as we both grew up we found different paths and grew a strong hatred for each other. The thing I like about this role is that while doing this dance I am being able to continue to learn ballet technique, and learn what I like as a dancer myself. The thing I dislike about this role is that I have to be very malicious and I have to perceive myself to be someone that I don’t believe …show more content…

However, I met Classidy in elementary school, and we were best friends. After coming into highschool, our relationship started to drift apart. Currently, we are all competing against each other for the solo in this year Spring Show. Who ever wins this solo gets the chance for a scholarship. Most of my dance teachers disagree with me competing against them because they don’t think that I need the scholarship money since my parents pay for my tuition in full. I want this to be the thing that grabs my parent attentions and makes them finally listen to me. I want them to actually participate in my life: see me at a performance, and do more than pay for things. This experience was very rough, but opened me up to something I didn’t know that I could do. I was able to channel something inside of me to become creative, and put emotions into the dance. Usually when I dance I tend to be very shy, but after this I am more confident in my dance moves even if I know that I am not executing the move correctly I still try. That is something that I can be proud of because I have always had problems with creating dance moves, and I always thought that I didn’t have that in me to do so. It was a wonderful experience to be opened up to. Also, we are trying to incorporate our ballet term through our dance moves even though we all have different genres of dance, which is what makes it a challenge. The `tone of our dance is competitive and aggressive

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