Recently I watched a film with a few friends and we decided to watch 'One day' a classic chick flick obviously! But anyway in a certain scene one of the main characters line is 'Those who can do, those who can't teach.' Now he wasn't talking about dance specifically but it definitely made me think about it. I wanted to know if you think this is this true or not?
Do you think there is a higher standard in teaching if you have experience after having a professional career? Can you pass that experience on to other students? And will it help them later in life?
OR not having the experience but being able to interact with students and discussing situations that may or may not happen in a professional career?
Thursday 19 March 2015
Sunday 1 March 2015
Is it just English men that don't dance?
I've started to research into one of my ideas from Module 1. I have not researched into each genre yet but so far reading discussions on other peoples blogs and a couple of websites, apparently it is just English men that do not dance. Many cultures really encourage dancing men and actually think that it is a very masculine thing to do for example: Greek festivals, Jewish weddings, African American, African, Aboriginal people and many more.
I then remembered going to my Father's cousins wedding in Italy as my Grandmother is Italian. My Italian side of the family thought it was completely ridiculous that my Father wouldn't dance with them or my Mum, back then I thought it was the amount of alcohol in their system that was making them dance but now actually thinking about it they would dance sober too. Just like Italian men kiss on the cheek twice to say hello or goodbye in public and they don't think twice about it. Maybe it is just us English?
I then remembered going to my Father's cousins wedding in Italy as my Grandmother is Italian. My Italian side of the family thought it was completely ridiculous that my Father wouldn't dance with them or my Mum, back then I thought it was the amount of alcohol in their system that was making them dance but now actually thinking about it they would dance sober too. Just like Italian men kiss on the cheek twice to say hello or goodbye in public and they don't think twice about it. Maybe it is just us English?
Idea's for my Professional Inquiry
Recently I have been researching into different topics and ideas for find my personal inquiry for Module 2. I had a few ideas from Module 1 that I started to research but I have came up with a couple more the last few days.
My first original idea was why do boys/men dance less than girls? What effects boys not to dance? And how can we do to encourage them to dance more? I could also go into do more boys prefer Musical Theatre to dance?
I researched into this and the first thing I came across was an article, this wasn't the most interesting account that I have read but the comments and discussion people got into about it was very interesting. One women believed that it was English men that had the problem but in other countries and cultures it is counted very masculine for men to dance, and that us English are the issue and needed to get past this phase!
Here is the link to the blog I read:
My second idea is 'How children are effected by exams and performing on stage differently?' This gave lots to explore, what do they prefer? How children handle being nervous differently? What they personality perform better in? With lots of people watching, or just one person watching and examining them? But I'm not sure this will effect my workplace it will bring me more knowledge on what effects children and how their emotions are different though.
My favourite idea at the moment is 'Fitting extra exam classes and rehearsals without any clashes to the normal timetable?' This idea leaves me with a lot of doors to open such as hiring an extra hall, extra teacher so more the business side of things? And can go into what children prefer to miss normal classes or rehearsals etc… and are the children effected by it? does it leave the student trying to catch up on things they have missed? But is there a solution?!
I need to dig deeper into each of these idea's to see which best suits my workplace and future career as I want the most rewarding outcome. I have a couple more idea's but I think these three are my favourite so need to play around with the question and how to word it so I come up with the most effective title.
My first original idea was why do boys/men dance less than girls? What effects boys not to dance? And how can we do to encourage them to dance more? I could also go into do more boys prefer Musical Theatre to dance?
I researched into this and the first thing I came across was an article, this wasn't the most interesting account that I have read but the comments and discussion people got into about it was very interesting. One women believed that it was English men that had the problem but in other countries and cultures it is counted very masculine for men to dance, and that us English are the issue and needed to get past this phase!
Here is the link to the blog I read:
My second idea is 'How children are effected by exams and performing on stage differently?' This gave lots to explore, what do they prefer? How children handle being nervous differently? What they personality perform better in? With lots of people watching, or just one person watching and examining them? But I'm not sure this will effect my workplace it will bring me more knowledge on what effects children and how their emotions are different though.
My favourite idea at the moment is 'Fitting extra exam classes and rehearsals without any clashes to the normal timetable?' This idea leaves me with a lot of doors to open such as hiring an extra hall, extra teacher so more the business side of things? And can go into what children prefer to miss normal classes or rehearsals etc… and are the children effected by it? does it leave the student trying to catch up on things they have missed? But is there a solution?!
I need to dig deeper into each of these idea's to see which best suits my workplace and future career as I want the most rewarding outcome. I have a couple more idea's but I think these three are my favourite so need to play around with the question and how to word it so I come up with the most effective title.
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