UHOH! It's December!! CAMPUS SESSION NOV 21ST

I've seen a couple of blogs saying how quick time is going, I COMPLETELY AGREE. One of my songs has the lyrics "Time goes slow when you don't want it that way, time goes fast when you need it to stay", and I really believe it! When you're bored with nothing to do, don't you find yourself wishing the day away, but when its all happening and you need all the time you can get its practically gone in the time it takes for you to blink.

Last week I headed over to Hendon to drop off my library books and attend the campus session. Alan and paula were present, and we were looking at defining what is meant by the word support and success. What does it mean to support the arts? Does is mean providing finacial support or just going to see free shows when you can. In a way is support simply engagement. Supporting by just keeping it going.

Nice to see my friend Chiara has joined the course. As a fellow Conti girl I wish you all the best of luck with the course! :)

We then talked about the literature we read. When you read an article you need to check who wrote it because they can easily be written from biased opinions or be funded by a company with an agenda.

When you take a question and go through a process with it, you have to look at it from different angles in order to sort of break it down and find lots of different in depth meanings and answers. Perhaps a better way of phrasing that is just don't the question or its answer at face value.

It was suggested that you do not need to be academic to be a good dancer. Why is it that our professional vocational diploma courses are not enough?
Its true not all good dancers are good teachers but its also true that some of the dance teachers in schools are not good dancers. So why is it it enough that the bad dancer with the teaching qualification can teach in schools, but a good dancer, who went to a professional dance school, and has their ISTD teaching qualifications, would then also need to go back and get some sort of degree before they could teach.
My question, if we don’t need to be ‘academic’ to be good dancers, why do we not just train and then do teacher training why do we need to have the degree top up, is our vocational training just not seen as worthy?

The aim of the BAPP course is to try to get you to think through things more and to open your mind up to possibility. We were all given a list of words and asked to choose a few in groups and come up with a definition. 

We chose Rehearsal, Deconstruction, Argument and Communication. On the bits of paper we have brainstormed what words came to mind when trying to define it and then a short definition at the bottom of the page.

I thought breaking these words down was pretty interesting as I realised that we use these words everyday without having a clear definition of what each one means.

If we were to apply the same process to questions given to us on a regular basis we'd find that the possible answers are much greater.

I've added some pictures, so If you missed the campus session you can have a look at what we were doing. We also filmed our definitions and there's a link for that below :)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWrJiNV7aMs