What we believe

Hello Everyone, Following a great day of Skype, ideas and themes resonate with me that are rich in collective experience and integrate into the questioning within the modules we are part of. Sharing our ideas is a great tool for my personal learning and I imagine each of us also. We talked about how we subjectively perceive within our awareness the artefacts and how they can take shape and form. Also our understanding of the AOL’s how to annotate on them and how to link to the literature. This was all really helpful and helped me to step out of my present insight and to move beyond it. The artefact…not only to grasp it as an object wholly reflecting a time framed research project. But to distinguish the artifact as something that could go on and be a resource to other practitioners. That idea has created the drive and excitement I need to move forward and I believe it was really constructive and important for us to critique and advise each other. To help us move outside our perception, outside our own personal ontology. It was beneficial I felt to be part of both Skype calls by taking a different form of participation in both. It was so intriguing and helpful to hear Aggy talk of her present stance within her own research project, realising that what she thought she believed and would find, has turned out, or could be different. I can’t wait to hear. It is true that this feels strange when you sense you are on one path and then you find yourself down another or on the other side of the road! For me, this has happened too I had no idea that my research project would change my whole outlook of what dance pedagogy for children can be or what it could lead me to in the future. The past year has changed my relationships, my teaching and myself. I wanted to talk about what we believe as for me this notion of “believing” changes and evolves. It links to the ideas that were talked about with the blogs about just putting it out there and also a blog I was going to write last week and then changed my mind. I always see the blogs as the next step beyond our journals, its ok with our journals as no one sees’ them so we can plough through our thoughts, struggles, experimentations and feelings. In Module 1 and 2, I blogged…Some I am proud of, some I cringe at! But when I look at them I realize why I thought those thoughts at that moment and why I wrote them down. It was my process! And occurrences in life happen (moves, baby’s, jobs, health) go on as we journey through those processes.. All around us affects us in our humanness. I think this part is where I wave a lighter above my head and sing “we are the world!” I don’t mean to jest but it is a great thing when you didn’t get something and then it clicks that “bling moment”. Some dance practitioner’s work and literature I have looked during my study has scared me and I formed opinions on them at the time before I fully understood how I could take something from them and find value. I think I pushed it away… found it threatening or frustrating. One of them was my view on “Parades and changes” (1965-67); revivals 1995-2006. Now I look back on that blog I feel like doh! I see it differently now or I say yes I get that bit I can relate to it or no that isn’t relevant to me but I can see how powerful and groundbreaking it was at the time and still is with its retrospective. I now see the relevance and would love to get my kit off with Anna Halprin and roll around on her dance deck” I probably will! Just have to save up to get to San Fran. I am forming grounded opinions and the more I delve the deeper it all becomes as part of me and I have formed a real connection to Anna Halprins work. She is bold, brave, wanted to break the mold of Modern dance, clever and always exploring to form understanding and acceptance across all boundaries (fences) I love it. So I raise my cup of tea to all our blogs and my moments of change, beliefs and my personal cringe moments.