Sunday 3 March 2013

Reflecting on February

February feels like another short month, like I haven't done much moving but looking back through my journal, I have actually done a lot in these 3 weeks (We had reading week towards to beginning of the month).

The month began with a Movement Studies class with Natalie.  As we only have 4 months left of our degree, she asked us what our goals will be for these last few months.  My goals are to be more present in my moving and to taske advantage of all that we do.  I will achieve this by doing more self study and reading a lot more.  As our Peer Teaching was fast approaching, we then began looking into teaching strategies.  I did a lot of work on this when I was 16 years old and taking part in the pilot scheme of Youth Dance England's 'Young Dance Entrepreneur' programme (now know as 'Stride!'), so what was discussed was already very familiar with me.  Something that came up for me in these discussions was how I feel like I need to remember who I am teaching.  I've spent over 8 years teaching children but for my peer teaching, I would be teaching my peers; people who already had a lot of dancing experience.  I had my peer teaching assessment on 22nd February and I posted my thoughts on it a couple of weeks ago.  The link is below.


In Andrea's sessions this month, we've been doing lots of phrase work which has been great.  I've really enjoyed these classes and we don't get to do that much phrase based work. 

I thought I'd share a couple of extracts from my personal journal in this post.  The first is from a class with Katye.  We've been doing a lot of work with the head to heel connection and this journal entry is from a session where I felt very 2D and I was struggling to regain a sense of the 3D self.


 
The next image if from a class with Natalie.  To be honest, I can't really remember the details of this class.  Only that I was working with Joana and we had a discussion about moving, drawing then moving from the drawing.  My journal has very little colour and very little pictures.  I tend to use words instead of images.  I feel like I can make sense of words.  They have meanings so there is little interpretation to be made.  As you can see from my image below, there are a few words on the page but not many which is very unlike me.
 
 
 
February ended with a Skinner class with Polly which I really enjoyed.  I posted about it on Thursday.  Here is the link,
 
 
We are now in March and we have 3 weeks left before our penultimate term at Coventry University is complete.  I start my Final Major Project tomorrow afternoon at a local primary school.  I'm going to keep a journal of this so you will be able to read about it soon.