Blog 19: Independent Component 2

LITERAL

a) I, Cheyenne Jarman, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 33 hours and 30 minutes of work.”

b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component:

Royal Opera House. "Dance Styles in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - The Royal Ballet." YouTube. YouTube, 4 Apr. 2013. Web. 23 Jan. 2015.

BBC. "BBC Documentary Good Swan, Bad Swan: Dancing Swan Lake." YouTube. YouTube, 30 May 2014. Web. 27 Feb. 2015.

First Position. Dir. Bess Kargman. Perf. Aran Bell, Miko Fogarty, Jules Fogarty, Michaela Deprince, Joan Sebastian Zamora. 2011. DVD.      

c) Update your Independent Component 2 Log (which should be under your Senior Project Hours link)

d) Throughout this independent component I learned two main things. The first is that I learned how to teach choreography better to help the dancers remember the movements. The second is that I learned different ways of how and when a dancer adds their personal style and how impactful it can be on a dance.   

INTERPRETIVE

Defend your work and explain the component's significance and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.  

This component helped me provide more support for my answer 2, that a dancer should add their own personal style. It also helped me learn more as to how dancers add the style.

Another lesson I got from this component is that I was able to improve my teaching skills and learn different ways on how to teach that will help the dancer memorize the dance the best.

In these pictures Alyanna and I are working on choreographing a dance for the pep-rally.

APPLIED

How did the component help you answer your EQ? Please include specific examples to illustrate how it helped.

This component helped me really establish my answer 2, that a dancer should add their own personal style to a dance, and support the answer. While working on this component I was able to watch 30+ girls learn the exact same choreography and then see how they perform it with their own style. The dance team is currently working on two different pieces for the upcoming pep-rally and I have seen how the dancers interpret the choreography and make it into their own.

Blog 15: Independent Component 2 Approval

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.

I plan on using the dance team to further my research for my second answer of my EQ, which is that dancers should find their own style.

2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.

I will be taking class with the dance team, choreographing dances and performing.

3.  Explain how this component will help you explore your topic in more depth.

While dancing with different people you start to develop a certain style by taking a certain style from other people you dance with.

4.  Post a log in your Senior Project Hours link and label it "Independent Component 2" log.

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.  

Blog 7: Independent Component Approval

1. For my 1st semester Independent Component I will be training myself in the Intermediate RAD syllabus, in order to prepare for my exams. I will be taking the Intermediate Class twice a week for an hour and a half each class.

2. To show that I have completed the 30 hours needed I will fill out the mentorship hours on my hours list and also get my instructor to sign a paper that I have completed 30 hours of training.

3.By training and preparing for the exams this will help me discover an answer to my EQ. That answer being that ballet is the fundamental building block for all dancers.