Blog 14: Independent Component 1

• LITERAL
• (a) Write: “I, Cheyenne Jarman, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 41 hours and 30 minutes of work.”
• (b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component.
• These two books helped me through my independent component.

The Royal Academy of Dance. Vocational Graded Examinations in Dance. Female Syllabus. London: Royal Academy of Dance, 2003. Print. Intermediate Ballet.

The Royal Academy of Dance. Graded Examinations in Dance and Presentation Classes: Set Exercises, Studies and Dances. London: Published by Royal Academy of Dance Enterprises for Royal Academy of Dance, 2008. Print. Grade 6.

• (c) Update your hours in your Senior Project Hours link. Make sure it is clearly labeled with hours for individual sessions as well as total hours.
• (d) Explain what you completed.

I completed more mentorship hours and am learning more on my topic and getting closer to finding my best EQ answer.    

• INTERPRETIVE
• Defend your work and explain its significance to your project and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.  

My place of mentorship.

What my dance studio looks like prepped for exams.

My dance studio in the Covina Parade.

• APPLIED
• How did the component help you understand the foundation of your topic better?  Please include specific examples to illustrate this.

Since my component was more mentorship I found that I was constantly learning new ways to memorize movements, perform them, learning new movements and getting closer to my best answer for my essential question. When going to my mentorship on Wednesday, my classmates and I have an open class. An open class is when the choreography of everything is taught on the spot, forcing you to memorize the exercise and perform it well. In an open class the teacher usually teaches us at least one new movement per class to challenge us and expand our movement vocabulary. At mentorship I also am taught a Royal Academy of Dance syllabus, so I need to be able to memorize the movements and perform them properly. My mentor will provide me with corrections on my technique to ensure that I am performing to the best of my abilities. For example, in the Intermediate syllabus, the adage has quite challenging music to count, so my mentor just had me and my classmates just listen to the music a couple of times and count it out loud with her to make sure we knew what the counts were. She then had has roughly perform the exercises or mark through the exercise to make sure our arm placements were correct and that we were on the right track with the movements and music. She lastly had us perform the exercise full out and made minor adjustments to our movements, but no major corrections.