About KT 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 I have been out of dancing for 6 years, but I was asked to be over the dance department at my church. I was need refreshment especially with technicality such as leaps and turns. Can you please list the different turns and leaps and how to do them?
Answer Hi Timenya! Oh gosh! This is a short but loaded question you've asked here!! Asking the different types of leaps and turns and how to do them is like asking all of the different ways you can run. I can briefly run over a short list of leaps and then if there are some you still don't understand follow your question up so we can narrow it down..
Turns
-Chaine: Like a three step turn, the feet stay in first position while you turn around yourself.
-Pique: Picking one leg up in pase as you turn as listed above.
-Pirouette: Done on one supporting leg. The most popular kind of turn. Can travel inside (towards your supporting leg) or outside (towards your leg in passe).
These are the most basic turns. If there is something further you would need to know ask again with more specifics!
Leaps
-Jete or split leap: Just like the position of the splits in the air. Both legs straight and turned out from the hip.
-Switch leap: Taking one leg quickly to the front and then the back to end again in the split position.
-Leap in second/side leap/ open leap: A leap where the legs are in a second position open to the front (looks like a traveling toe touch).
-Turning leap: These have tons of variations. You can have both legs straight, one bent, both bent... Basically just any leap taken from a turning preparation.
These are a list of the most basic turns and leaps. Please write back if you have further questions! Good luck!
