Task 3C. Sources of Information

Here, I have had to take a step back from my practice to explore what methods I use to search, organise, and gather criteria and the knowledge I gain through my experiences that consequently enable me to develop my practice.

YouTube

This is one source I have referred to constantly through-out my journal. I am able to use YouTube to keep up-to-date with how dance is evolving in other countries around the world so that my practice isn’t dated.    This is essential to my career as, If my choreography is seen as “old” or “out dated” then I will be less employable as dancers also want to keep updated and learn choreography that is up to date and “with the times”.  Through this course I have realised that you are also able to watch videos that enable you to learn things step by step, for example when emailing my tutor Paula Nottingham she sent me a link to the “Bapp YouTube” for video advice.

Diary

Every Morning, or sometimes the night before, I open my diary to plan a productive day, week or month.  Here I write a big “To Do List” and aim to get each task completed by the end of the day. I believe this is one of the most important methods to my success within my career so far. My diary enables me to organise and prevents me from making mistakes that could have a huge negative impact of career. It also reduces anxiety as any tasks big or small I am able to write down and look at whenever I feel the need to, so that I don’t forget any jobs or tasks I need to do.

Journal

My journal I use to explain and analyse the experiences within my diary. Within my journal I find out what are my strengths and weaknesses and analyse how I can improve as a person and within my practice. As all this information is gathered in book, I am able to look back at previous experiences and remember also what worked and what didn’t. I find this method very useful and usually look up certain experiences when I am aware that they are going to come up again. This enables me to be more prepared and also more confident within these experiences.

Google

Especially since being on this course I have found Google an extremely useful tool to enable me to complete this course accurately and to the best of my ability. Google leads me to websites that enable me to research information of nearly any kind. As soon as I see a word, theory, task that I don’t understand I enter a question or keywords into Google, so that I am able to further my knowledge in a topic, and as a result of this my answer will be more precise.

Friends

 I feel very lucky that some of my friends are also my work colleagues.  Some of these friends hold different information and knowledge to me as, even though we are trying to achieve the same or similar goals we have been on a totally different journey, dancing and performing with different people and also learning from different teachers. This means that they will carry knowledge that I am not aware of and can learn a lot from and vice-versa. With my friends/colleagues we also work together to provide each other opportunities, to enhance both our careers. So here we can see how much of an impact my friends have on my career as they are my tool for information and also provide me with opportunities. I believe this again goes back to social networking and the impact it can have.

I am now going to look into these 5 points and see how I can advance on them to further my success. Furthermore I will look deeper to try and discover even more methods that I have used within my experiences so far, to see what else has enabled me to develop my practice.

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