#btf

First DANCEONE competition&convention of the season is only one week away.

I absolutely love Isabella’s slope. I watched her do it at nycda and I compared it to her first run last year. She has grown tremendously and it seems as though she is really trying to portray a story instead of just doing a bunch of delicate movements one after the next to classical music. It couldn’t have been easy since she is such a hard hitting dancer and really only use to Timmy contemporary which doesn’t require a lot of raw emotion. I’m not criticizing his choreography I love a lot of his pieces but I have noticed that many of his dances just has the dancer keeping a steely look on their face(that’s the best I can describe it). Slope wasn’t all that cohesive back in November which caused some awkward spaces but wow her newest go of it was amazing. I think there is a lot of critique on this solo due to it not rly being the typical btf contemporary. It’s a lot more balletic and requires extremely organic emotions and story telling and it relies heavily on technique. I know this is a lot to say about just one dancers solo, but I wanted to highlight how huge Isabella has grown under west side and to show how slop has helped her improve so much as a dancer. It’s quick for people to judge something that they are not use to and that’s ok and normal, but at the end of the day it is just a twelve year olds solo. Congrats Isabella on your growth!!