BTUK Summer School

Heyya! I'm really sorry I've not blogged in ages! Anyway, last week I was at Ballet Theatre UK's Summer Course- it was Amazing!!! There was a lot of pointework, which I found quite challenging- I ached so much after the first day!! To be honest, it did make me wonder wether I'd ever be able to cope with full-time ballet school, and I felt like giving up. But then, I thought back to Associates on Sunday, and the wonderful sense of achievement I felt in the adagio exercise, when my teacher said to me "Yes! That has improved a lot!" I know that it would be impossible for me to live without dance, there's just something irresistible in striving every day to improve, to express the music through strength and grace..... At summer school, we learnt the pas de trois solos from "The Snow Queen" and also the Waltz of the Flowers from Alice in Wonderland. I loved how dynamic and creative the choreography was! The other girls on the course were all Amazing dancers so I felt kind of intimidated by them, but they were really friendly and talkative which was lovely. I really enjoyed the classes taught by dancers from the Ballet Theatre UK company, I learnt a lot about performance technique! At Associates in July, we received our reports- my musicality mark wasn't as good as I would've liked, so summer school was a great opportunity for me to focus on that, and make sure that I showed the connection between the music and movement. Also, the contemporary and Jazz classes were great fun, I've not really done much Jazz before but it felt good to dance in a different way to ballet! I hope everyone is having a great summer, I'm off to the leisure centre now for swimming, yoga and gym :D