Thank you so much to everyone else that was at the
10am Skype on Sunday, it was lovely to talk with you!
We spoke about analysis and how across all
modules on the MAPP we are required to engage with this process and explore
themes that have emerged through our experiences. We spoke a lot about making
connections with others and within different areas of our practice. I found
talking with others about this really useful as I continue to analyse my data,
observations and literature in module three. Thank you Sam, Julie and Anna, as
speaking with you was so helpful. Through trying to articulate my learning
processes in module one, I was able to identify the ways in which my current
stage of analysis is something I already have experience of and in a way just a
further development of this. We also spoke a lot about needing confidence to
get things done and I think making this comparison contributed to my own self-confidence
as I continue with my research.
As Adesola mentioned in her recent post, I have recently made a stronger connection between writing and my other practice, I wrote about this on 28th October below. Through our Skype sessions I really see how discussing our thoughts and ideas enables us to articulate some of the common themes many of us encounter whilst engaging with our study and professional practice on the MAPP. I can now see how my blog has the potential to be another outlet to serve a similar purpose and can contribute be the ‘voice’ to which Adesola referred. I have noticed a heightened awareness of the relationships between the many voices I have: dancing, teaching, learning, writing etc. and how these are really all one voice, my voice.
Over the last week or so I have been continuously mulling over the data collected from interviews, questionnaires and my reflective diary. I have tried to look at where knowledge has been acquired and how I make connections across emerging themes. I have begun to see ways in which these have the potential to be woven into the fabric of my professional practice. I am more aware of other voices from within dance, how they view their world and in which ways alternate perspectives offer more angles and textures to my own understanding.
More specifically I am making connections between the work of Martha Graham throughout history, my teaching of the technique in the UK today and other dance artists' experience of the work and technique of Graham in a UK context. In doing this I am deepening my understanding of my own lived history in dance and how that relates to, and is different to that of others. I am starting to see many similarities in approaches to contemporary technique teaching in 21st century UK dance as well as how more ‘codified’ vocabularies with a legacy such as Graham, Cunningham, Horton can be used as vessels for transporting and doing history. Throughout this process I am viewing history from a number of angles and as an active means of communicating physical knowledge from the past (see my previous post on 30th Oct.) In doing this I am also noticing the different ways in which we view our individual personal histories and how these inter-relate and evolve in relation to our physical situation in space, our chronology and our unique day-to-day experiences.
As Adesola mentioned in her recent post, I have recently made a stronger connection between writing and my other practice, I wrote about this on 28th October below. Through our Skype sessions I really see how discussing our thoughts and ideas enables us to articulate some of the common themes many of us encounter whilst engaging with our study and professional practice on the MAPP. I can now see how my blog has the potential to be another outlet to serve a similar purpose and can contribute be the ‘voice’ to which Adesola referred. I have noticed a heightened awareness of the relationships between the many voices I have: dancing, teaching, learning, writing etc. and how these are really all one voice, my voice.
Over the last week or so I have been continuously mulling over the data collected from interviews, questionnaires and my reflective diary. I have tried to look at where knowledge has been acquired and how I make connections across emerging themes. I have begun to see ways in which these have the potential to be woven into the fabric of my professional practice. I am more aware of other voices from within dance, how they view their world and in which ways alternate perspectives offer more angles and textures to my own understanding.
More specifically I am making connections between the work of Martha Graham throughout history, my teaching of the technique in the UK today and other dance artists' experience of the work and technique of Graham in a UK context. In doing this I am deepening my understanding of my own lived history in dance and how that relates to, and is different to that of others. I am starting to see many similarities in approaches to contemporary technique teaching in 21st century UK dance as well as how more ‘codified’ vocabularies with a legacy such as Graham, Cunningham, Horton can be used as vessels for transporting and doing history. Throughout this process I am viewing history from a number of angles and as an active means of communicating physical knowledge from the past (see my previous post on 30th Oct.) In doing this I am also noticing the different ways in which we view our individual personal histories and how these inter-relate and evolve in relation to our physical situation in space, our chronology and our unique day-to-day experiences.
In our Skype Helen spoke about the process of
analysis as a journey with many possible doors that could be opened along the
way. At the moment I am looking at all of these doors as possibilities,
noticing the doors I choose to open or close. The doors others present to me or
choose to open or close. These choices provide other options and decisions
along the journey. It’s like anything I guess, the more angles you see
something from, the more you explore it, the more complex it becomes but also
the more clarity you have of some things. When we dance we make connections
with our own bodies in time and space and explore the available possibilities. We
make connections with other bodies, with the music, with our surroundings and
make links, changes, edit our movement processes.
Through analysis we are making connections between
one idea and another and between others, and ourselves. Through our Skype
sessions and blogs we are opening more doors as we share our
experiences and make links between our learning experiences and those of
others. At the moment many things seem meaningful and connected yet I still find it difficult to make sense of it all. Hopefully things will come together as I continue to explore, read, write, and share my thoughts and I will begin to understand my journey more
thoroughly.
Thanks for reading,
Sarah :)
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