Teaching assessment week

Monday 24th January was the beginning of our teaching assessment week.  I did a workshop with a primary one class at Ferryhill Primary School based on the rep from 'My Hero', which is a piece that will be featured in the BA tour this year.
I was really excited about teaching the class and I had never taught such a young age group before so it was an entirely new experience for me.  The class were really well behaved and I enjoyed teaching them although I did make a lot of mistakes for example I was so scared that I would lose control of the class I kept them quite confined and I wasnt sure that they were fully understanding what we were doing most of the time so i demonstrated aswell as explaining but possibly spent too much time trying to explain rather than just doing it and letting them explore movement for themselves.  I also planned to number movements from the sequence to get them thinking and counting whilst moving but as  I thought I was running out of time I started to rush and ended up finishing the class too early.
I was very dissapointed with the way it all turned out but the only thing I can do now is think of this as a positive learning experience in which I will think about all the things I could have done better and hopefully get some more experience in order for me to improve my teaching skills and gain more confidence in what I am doing.

Scottish Dance Theatre

On Tuesday 26th October, we had a workshop with two members from Scottish Dance Theatre, James and selene.  We learnt part of their rep. then developed it further by adapting the movement and adding in bits of our own.  We also did some improvisation which is not my strongest point! aha but it was a really good learning process and we got to use our voices too which was a different experience.  I thoroughly enjoyed it.  We also went to a interactive workshop the following day which showed us snippets of the work that they are working on at the moment, what they were about and information on the lighting and music.  Although we didn't get to see the full duration of the pieces I really liked the ideas behind them, especially NQR which was choreographed and danced by a disabled dancer as well as abled dancers...it was amazing and the duets looked beautiful, very inspirational and left me very open-minded as to what a dancer is...

Alvin Ailey...

On Wednesday 20th October we attended the Festival Theatre to watch a performance by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre.  The performance was amazing and very inspirational and i particularly enjoyed the new works which was based on Judith Jamieson's story and her relationship to Alvin Ailey, was almost like a tribute to him.  I thought it was really interesting and  moving, felt myself getting quite emotional lol.  They also did their Rep. which was as fantastic as ever.  Loved it! :) 

New York, New York! :D

Last week a group of the BA students booked our flights to New York.  This is a huge oppertunity for us as dancers to develop our skills and a great experience and insight into the danceworld in America. We are planning to take dance classes, see lots of shows and various other things that may inspire us.  All that is left to do now is the fundraising! how exciting! :) 

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