Working at my first Freestyle program part 3

This is the second lesson with coach B that is doing my program's choreography.
Read about the experience with coach A here and the first week lesson with coach B here.

We started by reviewing what we've done last week. At the end of the first week I filmed the coach doing the choreography so I'll have reference. I learned the steps reasonably well. I asked for help in the arms movements  that I numbered last week 1, 2 and 3.

And here are the next steps, I put in bold characters the things that are new to me...
- after the spiral like step I continue with a left forward mohawk,  step wide for a power push with one hand over the head movement 4.
- back crossover and step forward on the right foot with both arms 5 coming from low to lateral. This step brings me to the right hand and forward corner from how I started in the middle facing the judges.
- step on the left with some arm movement 6 that waves somehow, forward crossover with long inside edge. That is right, left and stay on the left and continue holding the inside edge and bring the right foot forward. I'm always tempted to put the right foot down and even if I don't, I usually mess up my balance, so my flow, and the arm movement 7 associated with it... All this brings me towards the center again.
- right forward mohawk, back crossover, back edge, Waltz Jump
- left forward 3-turn and wide step and ride backward on the inside edge,  on a bent right knee (similar with a back pivot maybe but in a lunge position not putting the toe pick in the ice)  twisting the upper body with arms lateral, palms up. This is soo pretty! And I am now in the right corner but back to the initial center position.

Some things that caught my attention:
- I noticed about many steps that they have a rhythm like short step, short step, hold the edge...  And it makes sense since my music it's waltzy.
- Some of the arms movement are ballet inspired done with a square upper body. Others, those with a wavy motion use the shoulders and breathing to initiate them.
- Breathing is a very effective tool for enhancing the movement. For example on the first element: arms up with inhaling , then arms down and initiating the pivot with exhaling...
- I was asking about keeping the body tense. I was wondering about it for a while and he said that it's tense, but not that tense. There is a balance between softness and stiffness. So you should be holding some tension so you can control the movement and extend, but then release it before it becomes stiffness and  actually would stop the movement. This goes hand in hand with the breathing... Theoretically, I knew it was something like that, but I was actually able to see him doing it and copy some of it. Then of course, I loose it when I try on my own.
- I was pleasantly surprised that I learn the choreography reasonably quick. That was a big worry for me. I haven't done any sports, dance, music or performances as a kid, so I really have nothing to build on. I did my rink adult group number at the annual show and I was really, really bad in picking up the choreography. Then I did some contemporary dance class last summer and I was quite overwhelmed. My regular skating, with my main coach, is MITF and pattern dances, that are all, for my level, very repetitive steps. When I started with the first Freestyle coach, coach A, I was still getting overwhelmed. But somewhere along the way it got better. Firstly, while not rocking science I've never had to do connective steps and weight shifts to change the direction, so I had to learn them and give them a little time to became comfortable. Then, I literally told myself to not be overwhelmed. And it worked, I can follow along for a bigger chunk of the program then I expected. I realized I'm getting stuck on things I cannot do, not on choreography.
- I'll ask my coach on my next lesson if he has any advice on how to approach the process of learning a program. I would think firstly is to learn the elements and the order of the steps. Then add arms, put it on music and add expression. But I suspect, as in Ice dancing there is a back and forth approach.
- And related with learning choreography, I asked my ballet instructor if he has any tips for beginners, more exactly what to pay attention to. I already told him that my goal is to improve my posture and hand movement. He said that it is more important to get the rhythm. The exercises I'll learn the more I do them. Something to think about...