The Mirror Dance (Dandy Gilver, 15)

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Despierre encourages educators to shift their focus. “It’s not all about being able to do three turns in the air,” he says. “It is just as impressive to be able to find extreme subtlety in the sensation in your body. If you can bring students to find the pleasure in that, they won’t need the mirror to find it.” Radell and fellow researchers compared body image in beginning-level, female dancers taking modern and ballet in college in both mirrored and non-mirrored classrooms at Emory University. By the end of the semester, both modern and ballet students from the mirrored classrooms felt worse about their bodies.

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canon – this technique requires dancers to take it in turns to perform a movement that is then identically copied and performed by others McGriff has found this to be true for her. “A lot of times when I’m looking in the mirror, I’m also looking at my peers and how the movement looks on them,” she says. Most dancers rely on the mirror for hours a day. It can help us self-correct our lines and see what our movement looks like. But there’s evidence to suggest that overly depending on it can be harmful, as well. Image Issues Relying on the mirror can lead dancers to focus more on how they look than on how their movement feels, says Radell. “They objectify themselves and they don’t focus on their proprioceptive sensations.” Presented by Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman, Strictly Come Dancing has been a Saturday night staple since 2004.mirroring – this technique requires dancers to do the same travel, jump, shape or balance at exactly the same time Strictly Come Dancing aired its latest exit this evening - as one star waltzed away from the ballroom for good.

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Frédéric Despierre, rehearsal director for Hofesh Shechter Company and a freelance teacher, believes the mirror can distract students from being fully aware of their bodies in space. “The mirror becomes a means of approval,” he says. “They start focusing on whether they’re doing things right or wrong instead of finding the pleasure of moving.” The Comparison Gameand something sinister is afoot in the streets of Dundee, when a puppeteer is found murdered behind his striped Punch and Judy stand, as children sit cross-legged drinking ginger beer.