Module 2 - 4A

After reading the reader I thought of many different questions.
I had questions that I raised to myself covered many different topics including performing, teaching and qualifications.

Eventually I chose my questions:

1. Does age affect teaching?
2. In teaching which is more important: personality, experience, knowledge or respect?
3. How does a dancer change their career?
4. When do performers prepare themselves for a change in career?
5. Which is more important a degree in dance or a CV full of performing?

Hopefully over the next few weeks I can develop these questions further to help with my inquiry.

I have given a few of my friends in the industry these questions and asked them informally to answer them. The answers I got were:

I think age along with reputation is key. Say for example we used to mess about in ballet (taught by a 75 year old Ballet master from the Russian Ballet) but if it was commercial (taught by a 35 year old male who is big in the commercial industry) at his age we wouldn't but then it's not like we didn't respect the ballet master we just knew we would get away with it. We could have a similar laugh with the commercial teacher but we knew when it would go too far! Ya know? x

Not even reputation it's like a persons personality. Like for example when a particular boy in college would clean a number no one would dare speak out I turn but if it was a quieter/shyer girl to get up and do it we'd all take the piss! No offence to a shy/quiet person! Hahahaha x

A younger teacher would go for it more than an older teacher!

Asking people to help you with work I find is proving harder than I thought because a lot of people ignore you when it comes to things like this or don't say very helpful things.

Campus session for module 2

So I attended campus session 1 on Wednesday. I was the only one there on module 2 but it was good to see what the module 3s were doing and what I would be doing next time. I have started some stuff and shared with the group what I'd done. I feel a little more confident now that I know I am on the right lines. 

At the session we spoke about love and learning. I think these two together and separately are interesting subjects. I love learning and enjoy learning new things. We learn new things everyday even if we don't realise so without learning we would be repeating our actions day in, day out and not learning anything new. Some people say they hate learning but I'm sure they don't mean this. I think they mean they are learning about something they are not interested in. It is still useful to know though. 

In the group at campus session 1 we brain stormed the word love and came up with many options. Paula asked us to think about what we would like to look into further. I thought about dating sites because I know nothing about them but then Paula said I may never need to know about them so should possibly think of something that may be about my career.

So, I thought about love of my career and what I would do for my career and what kind of love could over power the love for what I do. Love for my partner as it gets stronger I think could over power the love for my career. For example, people who have children and are married that were dances choose their family over a cruise job because the love for their family is greater. 

I will now carry on with my module 2, battling any obstructions that get in my of learning!

See you at soon, possibly at module 2 campus session 2

Ruth