My Top 5 Favorite Dancers!

Blog #5

Hi girls! First i wanted to address the poll. It went pretty well for being the first one, but some of you don't know how to subscribe. To subscribe, all you need to do is enter your google email into the box right below where it says Dancing For Jesus. Then it's going to ask you to type the given word just to make sure you're not a robot or anything. If you ARE a robot, I'm not sure why they're so discriminatory towards robots but sorry you can't subscribe.

Anyway it's Saturday and today is all about motivation. I always get motivation from watching videos of dancers on YouTube, and I hope you do too. So today's video is of Haley Messick dancing to Fields of Gold. She is a great dancer and she's local to a lot of us. She dances at JPD and this is her competition solo from a couple years ago.

Search: Haley Messick Fields of Gold

Dance app!
If you're a dancer and have trouble remembering all of the strange French terms being used, there are a couple things that can help you. First, there's an app called Ballet Lite. It has all of the terms you need with definition of each term. For those of you who don't have an Apple product, there's also a website called [http://www.abt.org/education/dictionary/index.html] that gives you all of the same information. I find these tools very helpful especially when a new term gets thrown at me and I either forget the name, or what step goes with the name. Hope this helps.

My Top 5 Dancers of 2011

Here are some of my favorite
dancers from last year!


5. Simrin Player
I can never see enough of her hip hop dances. She's amazing!





4. Asia Monet Ray
I had seen her videos online and didn't realize that she lived in the same city as me. At 6 years old her sassy attitude when she dances keeps everyone intrigued and entertained.






3. Autumn Miller
Her facial expressions when she dances is great. She gets better every time.

2. Sophia Lucia
Amazingly talented tap dancer! Her smile tops off the whole performance!






1. Maddie Ziegler
Maddie is an outstanding dancer for only being 9 years old. She's definitely going places. (This video is the full version of her lyrical solo, disappear)






Pointe-rs

I changed the name from Quick Tip to Pointe-rs. Get it? I thought it would be more fun to call it that, but i didn't know exactly how to write it so that you would get it. So here is today's pointer.

There's something I want you to do first. Get down and do a push up. Just one.

Now get down again and do 50 push ups.

How many of the 50 were as good as the single push up? Not many, huh? You might have not even tried once you saw the number. But don't worry, I wouldn't either. This leads to today's pointer. Go full out! With every single thing your teacher wants you to do, go full out. Push ups, crunches, planks, etc. It's sooo hard sometimes to give your best without giving up first, and everyone does it. I do it all the time. Why? Because it's easier. We need to get out of that mindset. If I had been going full out since day one, I would probably be at least 3 times stronger than I am now. Of course you'll get tired and it will be hard to do each move as well as you did on the first try, but keep going. Just give everything that's in you and DONT GIVE UP. I hope this video inspires you. Look how much hard work pays off.

Dance GOAL of the week: Give it your all!!!

At least try it for this week and see how you feel. Give every single thing your best effort. And don't feel like if someone else isn't giving their best, it means you don't have to. You can be their motivator too!

Also, last week's goal really helped with my flexibility and I'm further down in my middle split. I was already down in the other two so I stretched my over split. How did it go for you guys? I'd like to know if you tried it.

Ok well that's it for this time. Love you guys! By the way, I want to know what all of you want to see on the blogs. I'm kind of putting in what I want you to see, but I also want your opinions. More tutorials? More tips? Or maybe a new segment altogether? I want to know! If you have this idea, or you see a video you want me to show, tell me! I've already taken 3 requests and put them in the blogs so I'll put yours in too. See you guys on Wednesday.