It is inspiring to start building connections with artists (teachers, musicians, dancers), and to start to know some people. This has happened for me over the last few classes, and it is very simple and good. Apart from spending time with inspiring people, opportunities for the future might be linked to them in some ways. I feel like I could do much more to advance my dance life - go to more classes, talk more, learn more.
But at the moment the overarching worry is my dissertation progress: I cannot code and analyse data quicker than I collect data, because all is data in grounded theory, and I have pages and pages.
Tomorrow I hand in my dissertation proposal:
How do people experience dance class (ballet and contemporary) and why?
What phenomena have an impact on these experiences?
What are the reasons, implications, links?
Simone, I will try to answer on your first question and I hope that it will help you with your dissertation proposal.
ReplyDeleteMost of the time dance classes were for me a hard work but sometimes a teacher inspired me and i was swept away into a completely different world where I was in harmony with myself and music.
I could explore the essence of passion or experience the state of bliss. I could start with flirtation and later noticed how it turned into intrigue. In those precious moments I was rediscovering myself. I felt beautiful and talented. And it was of course the connection with your partner, emotions and yourself.
All my very best wishes to you, Simone.
Hi Kaya, thank you so much for your very interesting comment!
ReplyDeleteHere is what I understood from it, and you may of course expand on the few points that were not clear if you wish:
Feeling motivated and self-confident in class happens when, through teacher input (what kind?), people become involved with the flow of class, music and self, and loose the awareness of the real perceptive world (being aware of which may be related to feeling self-conscious? when it is hard work, is this a time where you are self conscious?)
Having laid down the real world straight jacket allows exploring communication through movement and rediscovering self (- in what ways?)
These are just suggestions for further thought!
I am very excited!