Hello TFDE Members! I can’t believe another year is here!
Time is flying by and I am so excited to be apart of your amazing organization.
This past summer has been a busy one, which is probably why I feel like it has
flown by us. You know how that saying goes, time flies when you’re having fun
and this summer has been filled with fun! This summer I finished my
undergraduate degree and walked the stage at Texas State University to get my
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance with a minor in Business Administration. Now
that I have my degree, I am in the process of getting my teaching certification
to be able to teach dance in middle school and high schools and have been
preparing for my content exam through out the summer. I am the Drill Team
Program Coordinator and the Director of Legacy Dance Company at Acrotex Cedar
Park, which means I have had a busy summer at the studio as well! With the
start of summer classes to choreography camps to conditioning a new team, I
have been kept on my toes in such a positive way! My competition team, Legacy
Dance Company, is in their third season and started their training this summer.
We started lots of technique work and endurance exercises to help them get
ready for the upcoming 2016-2017 competition season. Getting ready for this
season has been the most challenging for both the girls and me! The girls on my
team range in ages from 7 to 11 and have been working so incredibly hard. They
have won lots of awards at competition the past two years which include overall
high score, judges choice awards, and many others but this year we are pushing
even further to be greater than we have been. We have added in two extra
routines for them to perform at competition and most of them also have solos to
prepare for as well. While getting them ready for competition season meant a
lot of work for them both physically and mentally, it also meant a lot of
behind the scenes work for me including editing music, choosing costumes and
hairstyles for the company girls and soloists, ordering team gear such a
jackets and little things for costumes, getting payments and communicating with
parents and choreographing their upcoming competition routines and scheduling
all practices for the upcoming season to send out to parents. In the midst of
all the team to do lists, I also choreographed numerous solos for dancers for
this upcoming competition season and worked with numerous dancers one on one to
help improve their technique for the upcoming year. This upcoming year, as
cliché as it sounds, I am most excited to watch my students grow individually
as well as dancers. There is nothing more rewarding than helping someone
achieve his or her goals while watching them learn valuable lessons at the same
time. My favorite part of being a teacher is really building up each student so
they can not only crush their dance goals, but also crush every goal they make
for years to come!
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