Welcome Back!!

Hey Guys,

Welcome back! Hope you all had an awesome summer!

This all feels slightly daunting to start this again as we have had such a long period of time off.

This is all about personal professional practice and ways to start thinking about developing questions for professional inquiry. As my practice is dance, I have said before in past blogs throughly thinking about my work is difficult, however become easier with time. Being very practical, adjusting to using speech and written work to help my practice is slightly strange for me. Dancers usually just go to "class" or "work out" to strengthen their abilities so crictally thinking is not of nature shall I say.

With just recently having a phone call with Alan Durrant I have had some time to brainstorm about what has been going my head throughout the summer and what work have I done using my new ways of thinking learnt throughout module one.

As my professional practice is a developing dancer and dance teacher I lead a busy lifestyle, reflecting thinking about my practice is not at the top of the agenda. Our conversation led to, conversations within the industry with other fellow dancers and teachers about their practice and concluding that I never really speak to anyone about how to build up my career.
However, in some aspect I do talk to my fellow dance friends about going to classes but this never leads onto teaching.

Over the summer I choreographed for a local dance school for ITV with a given a time limit of 4 weeks. When I was asked to do this, a slight hesertation came over me as this was a bigger project than used to. I used my critical thinking and ideas used in Module one to help me overcome my fear. When choreographing my piece, I noticed I used alot of written expressions to develop my dance piece by breaking down the sections, the movements and musical breaks and developed my thoughts through my laptop. Then gradually developing the movements when practicing my written thoughts. This allowed me to use this to reflect on how I am beginning to work as a dancer/teacher.
This leads on to a question on how can I create a piece with a smaller time barrier? Creating, Developing and Moving...? If I am given another task how can I improve the time it takes me to CDM?

This is just a start of my inquiry but I'll see where this takes me to finding new questions for my line of work...