Layla's Goals — This Season Into Next
A working sheet, not a wish list. Each goal has a way to tell if it's actually happening — a goal you can't measure is just a hope.
Become a performer — turn clean technique into performance scores.
Why it matters: the technique is already there; the performance is where the points she's missing live.
- How we'll know: a competition where she out-scores cleaner technicians by performing full-out.
- This week: dance to the back row — project, commit, use her face.
Perform full-out.
- How we'll know: a teacher or judge notes her performance and projection, not just her technique.
- This week: full-out run-throughs, dancing big, never marking.
Reliable pirouettes.
- How we'll know: a clean double in a routine, on her leg, without falling out.
- This week: spot, relevé, and center drills; clean singles before doubles.
Bring her class self to the stage.
- How we'll know: a competition performance that looks like her best rehearsal — full-out, composed.
- This week: one-shot run-throughs; perform through mistakes; visualization.
The one that isn't a skill
Don't dance small under pressure.
- How we'll know: a big competition where she performs full-out instead of pulling in.
- Nobody claps for this one. But performing full-out is the habit underneath every other goal.
Pick one target every time she trains or competes, put a number on it, and chase it. The goals don't move — the evidence stacks up.
