AboutKT Expertise I can answer questions dealing with the "how tos" of jazz, ballet, hip hop and lyrical. I can help get over creative blocks with song ideas and inspiration to help create. I can answer choreography questions and techniques to help better your dancing and/or teaching.
Experience I have been dancing for 19 years in the styles of jazz, ballet, hip-hop, and contemporary. I studied at a studio rated one of the top 100 studios in the nation, then moved on to The Ohio State University to study dance. I have been teaching summer dance camps for five years. I've been choreographing solos and group routines at a local studio and for groups in my state for three years. I have also attended numerous conventions and workshops throughout the nation. Through the winter I judge for a dance team circuit in the styles of Pom, Jazz, Lyrical, and Hip-Hop.
Education/Credentials I will soon be graduating with a bachelors degree in early childhood development and a minor in dance education.
Awards and Honors This past year I was given one of only twelve scholarships out of four hundred students from Broadway Dance Center's the Pulse.
Question Well I'm trying out for soph. poms this year.
but we have to do a switch leap and a axel and I have no i diea what they are.
Answer Hey Jasmine!
A switch leap is a variation on a regular leap. Let's say you want to do a switch leap on the right leg you would chasse, then step on the right foot. After this you would send the left leg to the front and quickly slice it through the air to the back while raising the right leg to a split position. The end result will look like a regular leap in a split position but the beginning will look different.
The position of the legs in an axel are as follows: If you are doing an axel on the right the right leg will be tucked up to the chest like in a high pase position. The left leg will be tucked up as well but in a lower position. The left leg will almost be kicking your behind. Try this position out a few times before moving on. While the feet are in this position you will be turning in the air. Usually you will chaine into this and then jump in the air while continuing the turn.
