Take the plunge!
Well, here we are in the first week, everything is set up and ready to go and the first one-to-one is done. But, hang on.... where do I start? Where do I go from here?
As a dancer, having spent pretty much all of my training and professional career being told exactly how something is to be done and it being very black and white in terms of technique, you now want me to be in charge of my own learning? You mean, you’re not going to tell me what to do?
Bang! It’s hit me, I am responsible for my own learning. I have to make choices and decisions for myself, no one is going to tell me what to do or give me correction. I have to now become the choreographer, performer and artistic director all in one. Wow! Ok, it’s ok Mark, you’re an intelligent guy, you just have to focus your mind and ‘Take the plunge’. See what happens, you might surprise yourself. You just have to start.
Remember, you might of been told what something is, but you decide how to do it.
Hi Mark, I had to comment on this as I was in exactly the same position as what you have described when I first started out on the course! It really is so different to training schools, I still have times now in module 3 thinking this way. Like you said 'take the plunge'!!
ReplyDelete"Taking the Plunge" such an important step. I am a returning student to BAPP after taking a year out. So it really feels like I am in the "deep end" again. All of the students I studied with have graduated and it feels like I am beginning all over again. Not sure what module you are on but I am starting Module 3.
ReplyDeleteIm currently starting module 2 and to be honest i have no clue how/where too start. like you said 'take the plunge'. well here goes...
ReplyDeleteIm so glad to see someone else on the Module one is feeling the exact same as me! and i'm finding it hard to not be told what to do! hoping the Skype session tonight will help me progress in some way
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