First Week Back
I've officially been back in classes for one week, and man am I sore! I've had 5 class hours in the last week, which is really too much. I haven't done much since the recital, and I'm paying for it now.
Last Thursday I had Contemporary, and then Technique Workshop. I liked Technique Workshop, but it's 3 younger girls and myself, and we are all on very different levels. Contemporary is something I've always been interested in, just never tried it. I liked the class, but years of ballet training made letting loose a little awkward.
Monday I had Lyrical. A lot of the people decided to try different classes this year, and there was only 5 of us, and 2 of them have transferred out. I like lyrical, it comes much more naturally for me.
Tuesday was ballet & pointe, and my teacher just jumped right back in! Super long barre in flat and some allegro combinations in the center. Pointe was a fairly difficult barre warmup and then some challenging center work, but I was able to do most of the combinations.
After all of that, I'm so happy to be back in class! Dance makes me feel free. I am myself when I am dancing, and that feels pretty cool.
Contemporary, Technique, and Lyrical classes all had leaps in them, and I landed funny on my right foot. I've had some arch pain the last few days. My arches are really long and my feet pretty narrow, so it's a lot of strain on my arch.
I've also got a high demi pointe, so I occasionally have the arch pain if I turn weird or something.
I need to try out different padding with my gaynors again I think. When I wear the shoes without tights, my feet don't sink in at all into the box, but when I'm wearing my tights (my teacher requires it) it's just a bit less friction than I'd like inside the shoe. There has to be a solution to this! I feel like some sort of non skid insert would do it in the arch area rather than more padding. Hmmm. I'll brainstorm and report back.
So I decided to take my favorite picture over. The one with one foot in a shoe and one foot bare. Here are a few variations:
And one last shameless plug- pointe makes for great leg muscles....
I'm going to pass on this Thursday's class so I can recover from being so sore, but that's about all I know. I have a major ballet related project in the works, I wish I could unveil it already, but I'm not quite finished!
Happy Dancing :)
Last Thursday I had Contemporary, and then Technique Workshop. I liked Technique Workshop, but it's 3 younger girls and myself, and we are all on very different levels. Contemporary is something I've always been interested in, just never tried it. I liked the class, but years of ballet training made letting loose a little awkward.
Monday I had Lyrical. A lot of the people decided to try different classes this year, and there was only 5 of us, and 2 of them have transferred out. I like lyrical, it comes much more naturally for me.
Tuesday was ballet & pointe, and my teacher just jumped right back in! Super long barre in flat and some allegro combinations in the center. Pointe was a fairly difficult barre warmup and then some challenging center work, but I was able to do most of the combinations.
After all of that, I'm so happy to be back in class! Dance makes me feel free. I am myself when I am dancing, and that feels pretty cool.
Contemporary, Technique, and Lyrical classes all had leaps in them, and I landed funny on my right foot. I've had some arch pain the last few days. My arches are really long and my feet pretty narrow, so it's a lot of strain on my arch.
I need to try out different padding with my gaynors again I think. When I wear the shoes without tights, my feet don't sink in at all into the box, but when I'm wearing my tights (my teacher requires it) it's just a bit less friction than I'd like inside the shoe. There has to be a solution to this! I feel like some sort of non skid insert would do it in the arch area rather than more padding. Hmmm. I'll brainstorm and report back.
So I decided to take my favorite picture over. The one with one foot in a shoe and one foot bare. Here are a few variations:
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| (This is a lot harder than it looks) |
And one last shameless plug- pointe makes for great leg muscles....
I'm going to pass on this Thursday's class so I can recover from being so sore, but that's about all I know. I have a major ballet related project in the works, I wish I could unveil it already, but I'm not quite finished!
Happy Dancing :)
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