Blog update for sessions the week of 14 MARCH

This past week I have had he chance to use a lot of skills.  I have began redoing my professional practice write up. This needed work as it was not as discussed funding as it should be, but more on particular events. This blog will go up soon after additional information has been added.  I was able to take part in leading a performing arts workshop for our French exchange students. As I speak a lot of French, Ias able to translate most of the lesson. It was very interesting, teaching performing arts to students who had a language barrier. After the workshop, many said that they had enjoyed it, a lot. I think my teaching skills, by translating French, and my team work skills have really shown here.  After the French group left, we held one of our final practices for the singing performance, which was on Thursday. It was easy to see that nerves were kicking in for many people, including myself. This was mainly due to the fact that I'd missed some rehearsals to no fault of my own. This meant that my song needed extra work. This made me nervous as I felt incompetent with my song. I continued to practice in my own time too.  On Tuesdy, we had dance first. We have begun brainstorming for our end of year showcase. We have discussed which skills or types of dance to use. The previous week we had had a very interesting workshop on the Skinner release technique. This actually made a lot of sense to me because it helps you to release each body part to dance completely freely. This used graphics such as skull strings, and a shoulder routine to loosen up shoulders and remove tension. I think this technique would be very useful in dance as I have a lot of tension in my body and it helps to remove that. We also will focus on our contact improv. Here is my photographic stimulus.  These are photos of my memories and  things that have meaning to me. I'LL use this in an emotion's piece.  In Ucan, we have been brainstorming for our final piece of theatre in June. Donors bad worked with us on Weekends to pull together ideas and pieces for the showcase.  One technique he used was, we can either discard a piece and don't use it,  deliver ititho changes, or develop it for a better use. We have pieced together a brief. Our company is called Tangents, and our piece is on identity. We're idea of  the town with no name, and identities slowly taking shape. This will be discussed every week now. And changes will be made.   The singing performance finally happened, and nerves were so high.  We had a tech run through during the afternoon. Mistakes were corrected. The night went very well, all the performers did very well. My piece rather came together a lot, after many mistakes in performance.