A little update from across the pond. No breakthrough regarding the piruettes. After one and half turns I still experience that the upper body has swung out of the centre line and I have to abort. Some times, lets say about one in 20, I can do two turns and stay in balance. On a couple of occasions I almost made 3 turns, and wondered what on earth did I do right this time ? I sure would like some one-on-one tutoring on this.
Last week Joan Kunch (https://joankunsch.wordpress.com/) visited our school. She had been a teacher and a choreographer for the school many years ago. A couple of the current teachers were only kids then, and had Joan as their teacher. So, for some of the children's classes and one of the adult classes Joan was a substitute teacher. Our class got some extra dancers this time, as some wanted to meet her.
It was an inspiring class. Joan did things a bit different than our teacher, both at the barre and out on the floor. I think she noticed the faults in all of us at the same time. She could just walk across the floor to a dancer and point out how she could do what she was doing better. Never to belittle, but to explain things to all of us.
