My seven-year course of Bharatnatyam was completed just this year so as a part of this CAS experience I wanted to extend this learning by doing a dance performance in front of an audience. Thus for this, we learned a whole new choreography on a new song and performed it in a hall. The performance was done as a group and it was like an opening dance for an event avsar
LOs:
LO1 – Identify own strengths and develop areas for growth
Since I’m learning this form of dance for seven years and have also shown improvement in it over time, I think that showing patience and learning this is one of my strengths so I wanted to extend it after my course is already over. One weakness I have is that I get very nervous on stage and forget to give the expressions thus I practised that even more and calmed myself so that I don’t make that mistake again
LO2 – Demonstrate that challenges have been undertaken, developing new skills in the process
Learning a new dance is always challenging as it is like learning everything back from the basics. We have to learn all the new steps and the expressions that go with that dance. Even though I have learned many dances already as a part of the course it is still challenging to remember all the steps fluently without forgetting. But it is important to keep on learning new dances so that I don’t forget what I’ve learnt before and keep it going in the back of my head.
LO4 – Show commitment to and perseverance in CAS experiences
For learning something preservation is a very important part and we have to make sure that we practise this every day so that we can improve and get better at it. If I think of taking breaks from practice it might affect the visuals of my performance and I can go rusty thus it is very important to keep the practice up. It is not always easy for me to commit to things but this is something I really wanted to do so I did not leave it in the middle and kept myself at it.
LO5 – Demonstrate the skills and recognize the benefits of working collaboratively
Since we have to be dancing in a group it is very necessary for us to work in collaboration. If the communication is proper it is easy for me to work in a group, but here as everyone from different schools and had different classes our schedules would clash a lot of times and it was very hard to make time to practice as a group. But we would help each other by giving feedback so that we could improve and overall it was nice to work with these people.
Some of the learner profiles I demonstrated are Communicator as this is a very important part of being in a group, another profile shown was Balanced as I did not let this performance distract me from my other work like school and other classes. As it is very important to give equal time to everything. The highlight from this experience was that all the people in the group were so caring and would help each other if someone ever gets stuck at a point. I think this was a success because we gave a pretty good performance on stage. Performing something in front of people and doing well at it does bring a sense of accomplishment in your self and it also helped me boost my self-confidence. Overall, this was a good experience and I would do it again
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