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 Me again. Just wondering as I was practicing my double turn, it seems that my body is lacking the momentum to turn around again. It seems that I cant spot all the way around again because my body stops and I dont know how to get it around again. When I spot I dont get all the way around to the beginning position. Am I making sense? Please help because I guess it's that I dont know how to get enough speed without moving around all crazy.
Sorry but I really really appreciate as much advice as I can get.
Answer Hey Lisa...this kind of makes sense. The only thing I can really think that would stop your body from turning would be releve that isn't as strong as it could be. If you don't have the power to push up strong on that leg it will be hard to keep rotating. Other than that momentum and going around multiple times just comes with practice. Throw yourself into those turns as hard as you can so you can feel what it feels like to go around more than once...now your turn will most likely be crazy but at least you will get around and can tweak the finer details.
