Dance Day

The annual RAD exams for my studio are coming, whether I am prepared or not. The exams themselves aren't scary it is the build up and anticipation for them that kill you. You prepare for these exams for a whole year and that is all you can do. So in order to help me prepare for my exams I attended a Dance Day... a day where you meet at a studio with several other dancers, so you know and others you don't and all you do is run through the set exercises that are assigned to your grade. So how does this help prepare me for my exams anymore than just taking a regular class at my studio? Well it helps you in many ways. The first being that not only is your teacher there to observe their students, but you have all the other dance teachers observing you as well. This gets a new set of eyes on you that may be able to correct a mistake that your teacher may have not noticed. The next benefit is dancing with dancers that you've never met before. This allows you to view other dancers and see how they perform a certain exercise, and get tips off of their performance and add it on to yours. So overall I found that Dance Day did help me get that much closer to being prepared for my exams.