My initial thoughts after finishing the first "reader" of the programme was that i knew more about Web 2.0 than i imagined. If you had said to me a while back "What is Web 2.0", i probably would have looked at you blanked face and i'm pretty sure that millions of other people would as well, even though it is now in our lives everyday.
I have to admit that i seem to have grasped onto social networking quite early on back in 2005 with Myspace. Even then i realised what potential it could have as a networking tool as users were uploading their music and letting listeners comment or simply become fans. Artists such as Kate Nash and Lily Allen were discovered on Myspace
I'm pretty positive about Web 2.0 and believe it to be a extremely useful tool for artists in the performing arts industry. An excellent example of this happend to me on a previous job a few years back. The reason being is that i was hired from a Youtube video from a company in Australia.
I remember someone mentioning to me that there was a great company in Australia that hired dancers for Cruise Ships. I emailed the company with the hope of them letting me know when they would next be visiting London and holding auditions.
They replied back to me and asked me to send them a showreel of any previous work i had done and of myself dancing. My best option was to upload to Youtube and send them the link......
Within days i was given a contract onboard a ship cruising round Australia and New Zealand and was flying out to them no more than a month later.
My showreel has since been updated, but this will give you a rough idea......
After doing a bit more research for Web 2.0. I came across this fantastic video which showed you how the web had evolved from the beginning to what it is now. The web is no longer just linking information. The web is linking people. We are the web.
After working away for a while, I'm back on course with getting stuck in on the tasks.....
However, after reading the first task "Professional Profile." I'm asked to take my current professional CV and rewrite as a profile.
As soon as i signed up to blogger, i automatically wrote my profile off the top of my head. Isn't this what we all do now these days? With social networking everywhere we go, we are always asked to sum ourselves up in a few short sentences...
I realised that my profile could be better and i could implement more of my professional CV into it. To do this, i will upload my CV and start working at it!
I'm also decided weather to merge both my Performing CV and Teaching/Choreography CV together? Is this wise? Or should i keep them separate.
My introduction to the world of BAPP started yesterday and to be honest, i'm having mixed emotions.
On the way back from my induction (a 2 hour drive) i couldn't help myself from thinking of all the topics that i would like to include in my modules, what sort of title i might be choosing, how was i going to start my blog?
This obviously means that i'm excited about starting a new chapter in my life. However, i also seemed to panic quite a lot after reading some parts of the module handbooks etc. Do students just get used to this? Does it become easier? Or am i just panicing, because i haven't done anything like this since leaving school in 2003.
We were asked yesterday to look up the words "Systematic" and "Rigorous" which can both be placed under the theme of "Academic." I had no problem finding my queries to "systematic" and many sources seemed to explain perfectly for me what i was looking for. But "rigorous" seemed to be quite hard to find an explanation or more simplified breakdown until i came across this quote about Rigorous Learning.
Think about chocolate for a moment. You can read a dictionary definition of chocolate, but to really know what it is,
you have to taste it. To really understand rigorous learning, you have to experience it.
I'm pretty sure that i will be experiencing some rigorous learning during my time on the BAPP course....
I have been a professional dancer/dance teacher since graduating from Italia Conti School of Theatre Arts in 2006. I have been lucky enough to work in Theatre, Music Videos, Commercials, Live Stage and Cruise Ships across the world.
Since returning from working on a cruise ship in 2010. Ive taken up teaching dance full time and focusing on my path for the future. In 2011, i successfully opened up my own dance school which currently runs a few days a week.
Looking forward to the future, i hope to be able to teach Dance in secondary education or post 16 and still run my dance school.
