Liam Pentland

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 ...

Task 3b Theories relating to networking The reader defines professional networking as ‘a work related community held together by either close working affiliation or more distant but common work interests or needs’ . For example, I have a group of close friends at a studio in Bolton who are part of my networking system. We are all able to work together and help each other, with our skills and abilities, to help one of another with goals and tasks we wish to accomplish in order to become successful within our practice. Within this group consists of dancers, choreographers, studio owner, event organisers, promotional staff, mentors and other people who obtain useful assets, which enable us to improve on our practice. Having a social networking group like this helps us to improve our success, promotion, development and sense of worth. I believe that there is a strong amount of trust in this group and as long as we all work together and maintain that trust, our practice will develop a...

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LMv9GO76fatZnL6MDw1f4KV18BVo8Y80V--S7DRDaBw/edit Extract from Task D: Inquiry assignment: " Looking outward and noticing these themes and lines of inquiry has certainly helped me positively critically reflect my work but also more importantly has enabled me to express what I have learned from past questions I have asked myself. I have found this a very good learning process."

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Journal writing experience Within this task I have looked back at my journal and have chosen 9 events, which I feel I would benefit a lot from if I reflect on them. I am hoping when reflecting on my actions, feelings and thoughts of a certain event I have been through, I will learn something about myself, which will help me improve the way I think in the future and overall improve myself as a person. We have been given a number of different ways on how to reflect through writing. I have chosen to write about specific events using a specific way of writing given to us from the handbook. Below I have stated what I felt helped, what surprised me, what I found interesting and what I feel I may use again in the future on each of the ways we were asked to reflect. Description Here, I chose to write about an event, where I was asked to teach a street dance workshop at, named “Manchester Collaborative Event”. The aim of this event was to bring all the local dancers from around Manch...

When I was first given this module, and had my first set of tasks, I was very confused as I wasn’t a hundred per cent sure of exactly what I had to do and was very confused of how the blogging system worked. I remember at the first campus session I attended   a few people who had already started the course before, explained that when they were first given the module they wasn’t too sure of what to do either, but they said the best thing was to just get on with the tasks and you will eventually understand more.   I found this advice helped me a lot however I am still finding the blogging system a bit confusing. Looking back at the first module, where we had to look at technologies as “tools” and how we used them to enhance our career, I found this very interesting as I was using many of these tools already but didn’t understand how much of an impact they were already having on my career as a dancer/choreographer, and also how much of an impact it will have on my future the...