Blog 16: Answer 2

1.  What is your EQ?

What is the best way for a dancer to prepare for the RAD exams?

2.  What is your first answer? (In complete thesis statement format)

The best way for a dancer to prepare for their RAD exams is to know the assigned syllabus and vocabulary well.

3.  What is your second answer? (In complete thesis statement format)

The best way for a dancer to prepare for the RAD exams is to train in multiple genres of dance in order to add your own personal style to the set exercises.

4.  List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.

1. During an exam an examiner looks for fluidity and facial expressions, while performing other genres of dance you learn different facial expressions and movement fluidity that could be applied to your exam work.
2. When learning different genres of dance, they each have their own “personality” if you will, that might fit you better that you can add to your syllabus work.
3. Taking different genres of dance can also help increase flexibility and turn out, which can help your exam work a lot.

5.  What printed source best supports your answer?

Life in Motion By: Misty Copeland

Copeland, Misty, and Charisse Jones. Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina. New York: Touchstone Book, Published by Simon & Schuster, 2014: 23-28. Print. 14 Nov. 2014.

A Little of This  By: Karen White

White, Karen. "A Little of This." Pointe June-July 2008: 45-46. Print.

6.  What other source supports your answer?

Dance Styles in Alice and Wonderland (Video) By: Royal Opera House

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

First Position (Video)

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

7.  Tie this together with a  concluding thought.

Having your own personal style in dance is very important. It not only makes the movement appear more smoother and qualitative, but it also separates you from a crowd of dancers.

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.  

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. 

Blog 13: Lesson 2 Reflection

1.What are you most proud of in your Lesson 2 Presentation and why?

I’m most proud that I was able to convey all the information that I needed to in a timely matter and that my presentation went so smooth.

2. a. What assessment would you give yourself on your Lesson 2 Presentation (self-assessment)?

I would give myself a P.

b. Explain why you deserve that grade using evidence from the Lesson 2 component contract.

I met all the requirements, but I feel that my activity could be improved.

3. What worked for you in your Lesson 2?

The layout of my powerpoint allowed my presentation to go really smoothly.

4. What didn't work? If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your Lesson 2?

I would’ve talked slower, although I made time I feel that I was explaining a lot of new information to my audience too quickly.

5. What do you think your answer #2 is going to be?

My second answer will be that dancers should train in multiple genres of dance.

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 11: Holiday Project Update

1.  It is important to consistently work on your senior project, whether it is break or we are in school.  What did you do over the break with your senior project?

I watched several documentary films relating to dance. The films were about various genres of dance and different methods of teaching and learning a certain style of dance.

2.  What was the most important thing you learned from what you did, and why?  What was the source of what you learned?

That there are various styles of dance in just one genre alone and if a particular style doesn’t suit you, it doesn’t mean you’re a bad dancer, it means that the particular style isn’t for you, so you shouldn’t give up. I learned this in both a documentary entitled “Ballerina” about Russian ballerinas and a article in Pointe magazine.

3.  If you were going to do a 10 question interview on questions related to answers for your EQ, who would you talk to and why?

I would either talk to an official RAD examiner, because they know what to look for in a dancer and what makes a dancer pass or fail an exam, or I would talk to my Friday ballet teacher because he was in a company and knows ways to add style to your dancing without going over the top and ruining your technique.