Blog 22: Mentorship

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• Belinda Maturo and Perfect Pointe School of Dance

Interpretive

What is the most important thing you gained from this experience? Why?

The most important thing that I have gained from this experience is that dance has many aspects to it, and it can be manipulated and morphed to fit you, as a dancer. This is something that I feel a lot of dancers don’t know, they see a movement and think, “I can’t do that,” and they never give it a chance. This can potentially hurt their career if they carry on with that mindset, which is why that knowing dance can be manipulated to fit the dancer is so important.

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How has what you’ve done helped you to answer your EQ?  Please explain.

My mentorship helped my both develop and answer my essential question because I was not only answering it with books and interviews, but I was actually putting the answers to work in real life. I got to live my project rather than just read about it.

Blog 12: Mentorship 10 Hours Check

1.   Where are you doing your mentorship?

Perfect Pointe School of Dance, located in Covina

2.   Who is your contact?

Belle Maturo, Studio Director

3.   How many total hours have you done (total hours should be reflected in your mentorship log located on the right hand side of your blog like your WB)?

172 Hours and 50 Minutes.

4.   Summarize the 10 hours of service you did.

I have taken several styles of dance, like ballet, jazz, modern and character, and also have taught several classes.

Blog 2: Summer Mentorship

1.https://docs.google.com/document/d/19p7EuzS3IJx7qKEqMXNKrb-GBYBJiRbyPodFrbT-hww/pub

2. Perfect Pointe School of Dance

   Belinda Maturo- School Director

   626-404-2219

3. What is the best age a dancer should start dancing?

   How many hours should a young dancer be training if they want to go professional?

   What is the best way to help a dancer understand and remember choreography?

4. The most important thing I gained from this experience is that not all dancers are the same and you cannot teach them as if they are. When teaching a class you often have to go through the steps multiple times and break it down for each dancer in different ways.

5. My senior topic is still going to be on dance, specifically what it takes to train a professional dancer. My summer mentorship helped me decide on this topic because a lot of the teachers I shadowed were former professional dancers and the dancers in the classes I observed showed a lot of dedication and passion for dance.