Nearing the End

Okay wow, so there is less than a week before these seven weeks are up! Although I truly believe that I have made progress, there is still so much to be accomplished. Okay but before I begin stressing about the upcoming presentation, I will share with all of you the events of this past week.

Since this week was spring break, and my family never travels, like at all, that meant that I had plenty of time at home to work on my dancing. I was practically dancing 24/7, even when my family was staring at me like I was crazy. Sure most of the time it was probably just me jumping up and down, but I still feel as if this extra time really did help me improve. After all 'practice makes perfect', well supposedly, and while I was practicing I realized that I had memorized the entire routine and was able to perform each move decently. I am extremely proud that I got this far because in all honesty, towards the beginning I did have doubts about being able to teach myself dance without any background with it.

Okay so going into specifics, this past week I focused a majority of my time on learning the floorwork part of the routine because I have to say it is quite difficult. It may look very simple, especially since it is only 2 eight count steps, but trust me, its not! I was constantly tripping over my own feet in my attempts to crossover and under my legs. Luckily I had this video tutorial to pause whenever the steps became too difficult.

Along with having plenty of time to practice my dancing, I also had a fair amount of time to watch more professional street dancers. My current favorite crew is Ruff Diamond because of their story. They are 6 self-taught street dancers from a small town in England without any dance studios even close to the town. I feel if they can accomplish that much all by themselves then I should be able to learn this routine. Here is a video of them talking about their story and their incredible performance!