3-Column Chart

3 COLUMN CHART

Room Creativity

(1) How do you plan to address the room creativity expectation?
I'm planning to have the room look like a studio. For example: mirrors, pictures of ballerina's, pointe shoes, costumes, leotards, skirts, maybe a bar if i could find one.
(2) What activity ideas do you have for answer 1 or 2?
For answer 1: The beginning of bar work for training, maybe learn a routine for practicing.
For answer 2: Have scenario's asking which one would have the best chance according to their body, a game to guess what the perfect ballerina should have. I'm still thinking of other ideas.

Answer 2

In order to perfect the role of a ballerina, you must have the appropriate body weight so that weight isn’t what is stopping you while dancing.

Evidence: #25 and #57 show Natalie Portman’s diet while training to be a ballerina. #51 and #52 both tell me the ideal body weight of a ballerina. #50 tells the perfect body of a ballerina. Basically you need to have this perfect body weight/body type so that you could dance perfectly.

Sources:
"Ballet Exercise – Get a Dancer’s Body on ELLE.com
"Met Dancer Spills on Natalie Portman's "Extreme" Black Swan Diet, Training
Ballet: Ideal Body Type
"The Ideal Weight for a Ballerina." LIVESTRONG.COM.
"The Myth of the Perfect Body: Seven Gorgeous Dancers Talk about Why They Are Far from Perfect."

The Product

My product: I have improved in my dancing. I believe just from last year that I have actually improved a lot. This year for my studio’s March recital, I was the lead role in our ballet. I also believe that my research helped me become a better dancer. I have learned many other ballerina’s experiences and I have improved from them. I have applied what I learned from my research to my dance skills. Regardless of my injuries, I believe that my legs and ankles have also become stronger; therefore helping improve my dance skills on pointe shoes. I have also learned from my research that facial expressions are an important qualification for performing on stage; which made me apply it to my performance.
As of right now, my recital has recently passed and I haven’t gotten the video that I ordered from my studio. I will just post up an already used photo for this blog because I do not have a video to post.

Fourth Interview Questions

1. Why is it important to practice?
2. When you practice, what is it that you help gain?
3. What happens if you don’t practice at all in one week?
4. How many times a week do you believe a ballerina should practice per week?
5. Why is it important to train?
6. What do you think training helps a ballerina gain?
7. What happens if you don’t train at all in one week?
8. Why do you think body weight is an important factor for a ballerina?
9. How does body weight help a ballerina in her dancing?
10. Why do you think facial expressions are important while on stage?
11. What do facial expressions make an audience feel?
12. What do facial expressions add to the routine/dance?
13. How do facial expressions add to the routines/dance?
14. Why are body proportions (perfect arms, legs, torso) so important?
15. What are the consequences of having bad body proportions?
16. What makes the ballerina look perfect on the stage?
17. What’s most important for a ballerina to look her best on stage?
18. How do ballerinas become so graceful?
19. Why is it important for ballerinas to be graceful?
20. Why is it important for ballerinas to become their character?

Independent Component 2 Plan Approval

1) I plan on doing a diet like what the ballerina's do. I will try to find an accurate diet plan for myself and make sure that ballerina's do it also.
2) I'm not just going to do my diet for a little over a day(30 hours). I'll probably do it for a month and I'm sure that's good enough to meet the requirement.
3) I'm thinking that this will be one of my answers. A perfect ballerina has to be able to have the perfect ballerina body.

Independent Component 1

LIA:
L: I, Erika Cortez, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work. For this component, I made sure I practiced 3 hours a week for my dances. I practiced my dances that were taught to me at my dance class, at my house, different days of the week for 3 hours.
I: In order to dance well and memorize all the steps, you need to practice a few times a week so that you are able to perform it at home. For this component, I am practicing for my recital in March. I probably practiced more than 3 hours some of the weeks but I made sure it was at least 3 hours. Because of my practicing, when I returned back to my dance class the next week, I knew all the dances.
A: This component helped me on my EQ because I chose it to be my first answer. This component is a perfect example of my first answer: Training/Practicing. Practicing is a huge key factor to being the perfect ballerina. Each professional ballerina dances about 6 days a week 5-8 hours a day. I didn’t go that extreme but I did practice more than I ever would. An example would be my third interview said she always used to practice and that’s how she was always perfect at everything. My component helped me understand the role of a perfect ballerina by practicing.

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