This week’s focus for me was fear. I chose to focus on this because I saw a lot of fear for the new unfamiliar movements within the class. I believe that most of the time within dance it is a case of mind over matter and it was something which happened in today’s class making me think this.

When the cohort had to add on a new section, which included a feared movement, I saw that they would no longer be uncomfortable in performing the ‘feared’ movement. This was because they had a new and unfamiliar movement to focus on, taking their mind away from the old and feared movement. To me this showed development within the class because the movement they previously could not perform due to fear was now being performed.

“An unpleasant emotion caused by the threat of danger, pain or harm“. (Oxford University Press, 2014) This online definition made me realise that within dance technique it is not always the threat of danger, damage, pain or harm within the movement making it to be feared but that it is usually just the unfamiliarity of the movement instead.

Below is an image of the first ‘feared’ movement that they now perform without a thought.