TASK 2C- Reflective Practise

·         What gets you angry and what makes you sad? Who do you admire who shares your feelings or has found a way to work around the sadness or anger?

            I feel that nower days the students you teach often have a number of hobbies and due to this fact dance can be side lined if it is not their main focus, particularly when it comes to a show and examinations it lets down other members of their class or team. I think that some parents don’t grasp the extent of the way to discipline their children and encouraging them to remain disciplined.

            Having recently joined an amateur dramatics company and felt very angry at the fact that the Director, Musical Director and Choreographer didn’t appear to communicate with each other therefore we would turn up to rehearsal and the Director would know the set and staging of the piece without relaying that information to the choreographer and we would then have to make some slight adjustments within the piece which would cause extra unnecessary time that could have been avoided. I think it is important and will only work if all three team leaders work together and have meetings before coming to rehearsal.

·         What do you love about what you do? Who do you admire who also seems to love this or is an example of what you love?

                        I love having the opportunity to share the passion and love of what I do onto others. Seeing a student come from a beginner and progress and develop with confidence and skill is so rewarding. I admire my previous teacher, Tracey Wring who taught at the school I began my training at, Jason Theatre School. I admire her teaching expertise and skill at creating some lovely choreography for show work. I also admire my previous colleague Jo Dilly, who taught Ballet at a previous school I worked for. She was so good at drawing out the best in the students and their ability and had the fine line between being an approachable teacher yet a having a natural sense of care and caricature about her.  I feel the only people who share my feelings are my peers who trained alongside me as they understand the pros and cons that occur from teaching children dance.

·         What do you feel you don’t understand? Who do you admire and who does seem to understand it or who has found a way of making not understand it interesting or beautiful or has asked the same questions as you?

                        I do not understand when students do not remain committed to lessons as they have a number of other hobbies that they do, I understand that they want to have an active lifestyle but time is often of the essence and I don’t believe that if they are doing a large number of hobbies that they would not be allowing each one the time or effort needed. The majority of parents do understand the time and energy required to remain a well skilled dancer and the commitment that is required but is frustrating when they don’t and they believe they know better than you.

2B Journal Writing Experience

            I found that my initial thought process behind writing a journal on a daily basis was a difficult one. When having to write at the end of the day about how you felt was a difficult task however a good learning curve. It is interesting on what you would write about at the time and I found it be easier as I went along to Bullet point specific points that I could relate back to another time. At the end of the day I would often call a friend up to liaise with and share my day and having to put those thoughts down on paper was a new way of thinking.

A Level Drama Production

Last wednesday night I was invited to go an watch an ex students A Level Production titled ''A Past Time'' where they had minimalistic props and 3 cast members. 1 being a boy, the other a war hero and the 3rd a student and I have to be honest for the first part of the play I had absloutrely no idea what was going on with the story line however I was still deeply engrossed and intrigued to discover the meaning behind the storyline....

I belive that the eary music that was played throughout the play and the lighting that had me ingrossed to disocver more and just proves that sound affects and lighting play a huge role in creating an effect

TASK 1B: Proffesional Communication technologies

Having read the Reader on Professional communications it re alliterated my feelings on the way in which we tend to communicate today. I feel that the way in which we communicate has developed in its form even since I was young. People will often communicate via a quick text, Facebook message and while I am one of those people I still feel that the world we live in today seems to be quite an impersonal way of communicating. I was surprised to learn from the Reader that there are more than 400 million users and 50% of them Log in every day.

The Positives and Negatives of Facebook

I remember the time that Facebook came to the current day and my friend sounding surprised that I haven't got an account for it yet, so when I went and had a look on the Internet I was intrigued to find out more. I think the idea of Facebook being a way of communicating with friends and family worldwide is a fantastic tool. I feel that as I've grown up many of my firends live all over the country and it is difficult to mantain regular contact that keeping up to date with what our friends and families are doing Facebook is a fantastic way, through photos and comments. I also feel that for the means of running a buisness it is good way to keep people update to date on the running of the buisness, a free means of advertising and a chance to spread the word.

However the negatives are the feel that you are powerless to what anyone would write about you, the observation that Lizzy Rowen made regarding the False sense of Perfection and I agree that it does seem a means of people using it nower days to pursue a happy, exciting lifestyle as a means of showing off.

TASK 2A: REFLECTIVE PRACTISE

Journal Writing Experience….Every so often I am asked to cover at BigLittle Theatre School in Bournemouth where I used to teach. I covered for a few Saturday’s leading up to their Festival Presentation of a two day show case. I felt that with the little time I had with them to teach a routine knowing that I was only going to be there for a few hours throughout the day was a frustrating yet learning experience. I found I was getting frustrated that they weren’t picking up the choreography quickly enough and I forget due to their age being only 7 and above that they were fairly limited in their abilities, therefore I had to simplify the choreography to create a polished piece that they would retain.  

Journal Writing Experience......March the 11^th after watching Festival, having just returned back from the BigLittle Festival I was so impressed with the talent that was shown throughout the 2 day event. Festival creates such a fantastic feel good family time where all the students would all join together young and old to watch each other, support, encourage and help.

In November I joined an Amateur Dramatics company and wanted to do it as something for myself as when you’re teaching you miss out on the buzz of performing.

Task 1A: Reviewing other profiles

Hey there....having looked at a few profiles its releiving to see that this whole Blogging thing isn't just a new and unknown source to me. The world of teachnology is fast growing and it's important to keep up to date with these features as a means of progressing. I feel that from looking at Katie Hurley's Blog the layout is good from an outsider who knows nothing about a BLOG, I particularly enjoyed reading her responsibilites that she has had to do in different jobs and roles. I feel that Lizzy Rowen's was a nice insight into her decision for choosing the stereo with her real passion and love of music that she feels that music plays such a big part of her life and I couldn't agree more.

Task 1A: Proffesional CV-Specific Information

I thought I would add my CV of specific places and locaions of where I trained, worked and performed of my proffesional life......

NATALIE AYLA KIRK

Height: 5' 4
Eye Colour: Brown
Hair Colour: Brown
British Citizen

Education:

Presdales School for Girls, Ware, Hertfordshire:
9 GCSE'S to include chosen subjects of Expressive Arts, Geogrpahy and Relgious Education

Hertford Regional College, Broxborune: A BTEC in Performing Arts, A Level in Theatre Studies.

Jason Thetare School: began training at the age of 10 with the ISTD in Tap, Ballet, Modern where I gained all of my examinations from Primary level to Grade 5.

Penning Meekings Teaching Training Centre: gaining my Intermediate, Advanced 1 and 2 in Tap, Modern, National and Ballet. Plus FDI, Foundation of Dance Instruction and CDE, Certificate of Dance Education in Tap, Ballet, Modern and National.

Theatre Credits Include:

Part                           Production                             Location                    Director/Choreographer
Collete                       Beauty and the Beast           Gordon Craig Theatre            Paul Laidlaw   Ensemble                   Kiss me Kate                        Gordon Craig Theatre             Lydia Dyne
Copa Girl                   Copacobana                          Gordon Craig Theatre             Lynsey Britton
Dancer                    Life is not a Rehersal             ABC Theatre                      Penny Meekings
Dancer                    The Show Must Go On            Mumford Theatre            Penny Meekings
 Dancer/Singer            The Mardi Gras                      Saddlers Wells                   Joy Spriggs
Ensemble                    The Tour                                London Palladium               Ata Productions
Ensemble               How to Suceed in Buisness           Ringwood School                 RMDS

Teaching Exeperience:

• Whilst at teaching of all of the schools below, was responsbile for entering candidates for examinations and arranging choeogrpahy for productions on a yearly basis.
• Ashwell School of Dance, taught ISTD Ballet from 3years- Grade 2 and assisted the teaching of classes throughout
• Saffron School of Dance: teaching of all genres from 3 years-16 years of age and to include the teaching of Adult Tap.
• Carter School of Dance: teaching of all the genres and to include Hip Hop and Jazz.
• The Anderson School of Dance: the teaching of all of the genres from 3 years to 16 and to include Street Dance.
• St Edmunnds School: the teaching of an After school acitivity of Street dance and Aerobics for pupils in year's 10 and above.
• BigLittle Theatre School: the teaching of Tap and Modern and to Direct and Choreogpah for a Musical Theatre Youth Group to include 2 major productions of a Musical Showcase twice a year.