If life is what happens to our plans, then dance is what happens to our steps.
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Preparation for starting with BAPP

Monday 30 March 2020

Community discussion group - Thursday April 2nd

Community Skypes are general conversations between students - sharing ideas, what's happening, news and checking-in with each other.

7:15 pm (time in London)

Please comment below to join: 

New BAPP Skypes and up-date on schedules

Hi everyone,
Given the current situation we have added some new Skype (and Zoom sessions). Zoom log-in information is on UniHub on the pdf about the new sessions at the top of the page. For Zoom you just have to come to the meet as directed.

Sunday 8pm Skypes are organized through Student Voice leaders - see Student Voice folder on UniHub.

I will also add posts for the Skype sessions so you can sign-up as we usually do (for non-Zoom and Student Voice Sundays)


Here is the overview
BAPP additional Skype sessions
Schedule (all times are given as UK-GMT)

Wednesday April 1st - 8:15am & 9pm discussion group 

Thursday April 2nd – 7:15pm - community discussion group 

*Friday April 3rd – 8.00pm - guided relaxation session

*Sunday April 5th – 8pm Student voice group (every Sunday at 8pm) 

*Friday April 10th  – 8.00pm - guided meditation session

Thursday April 9th – 7:15pm - community discussion group

*Friday April 17th – 8.00pm - guided meditation session

Monday  April 20th - 6pm Module Three focus

*Friday April 24th – 8.00pm - guided meditation session

Sat April 25th – 9;15am - community discussion group (Breakfast club)

*Friday May 1st – 8.00pm – guided meditation session
Friday May 1st – submission of work for all modules via turnitin

*Friday May 8th – 8.00pm – guided meditation session 

Wednesday May 6th – Presentation 9am -2pm, Presenters: Mark Allison, Cathleen Limerick, Siobhan Richardson, Benny Tyas. (presenters need to be available in afternoon too) 

Thursday May 7th – Presentation 11:30am – 4:30pm, Presenters: Emi Ichikawa, Thomas Holdsworth, Louise Elliott, Taylor Byrnes. 

*Friday May 15th – 8.00pm – guided mediation session 

*Friday May 22nd – 8.00pm – guided meditation session

*Friday May 29th – 8.00pm – guided meditation session

*Friday June 5th  – 8.00pm – guided meditation session
(these sessions will carry on through the summer according to numbers) 

*Friday - session are via Zoom 

Sunday 29 March 2020

Friday April 3rd- Online session with a module 2 focus

Practicalities of doing practice-based research

Online session- Module 2 focus (ACI 3622)

Friday the 3rd of April, 6pm- (Time in London)

Comment below to indicate if you are joining. Let us know what you are interested in sharing during the discussion. 

Friday 27 March 2020

Module One and Module Three skypes this week

We had a couple of Skypes this week. In Module One focus we talked about literature. Thinking about why you are doing things - why am I reading this. This idea of questions came across in a lot of the conversation. Questions help unpack the experience such s 'how does this relate to me personally to my practice?' How is this unique to me? Am I visual person - how can I describe this visually, sonically, physically?

The Module Three focus conversations included recognizing 'the process'. Noticing your process, Noticing the 'messiness' of understanding something as it links to ideas you already had and maybe changes them or shifts their meaning. We discussed the importance of having an open mind, enjoying not knowing but also witnessing your own process.

Those attending said they would be posting their thoughts please look in the comments - what do you think please comment. What have you been reflecting on this week.

Wednesday April 1st- Discussion group- all BAPP modules

Discussion Group (BAPP all modules)
Wednesday the 1st of April-
8:15am 
or
 9pm 
(Time in London)

Comment below to indicate which discussion group you are joining. Let us know what you are interested in sharing during the discussion.

Thursday 19 March 2020

Tuesday March 24th- Online session with a Module 3 focus.

The central place of analysis, synthesis of information through reflection.

Online session- Modle 3 focus (ACI3633)

Tuesday the 24th of March-
8pm (Time in London)

Comment below to indicate if you are joining. Let us know what you are interested in sharing during the discussion.

Wednesday 18 March 2020

Monday March 23rd- Online session with a Module 1 focus.

Synthesis of information through reflection

Online session- Module 1 focus (ACI3611)

Monday the 23rd of March- 6pm (Time in London)

Comment below to indicate if you are joining. Let us know what you are interested in sharing during the discussion.

Monday 16 March 2020

Community Skype - Saturday April 25th

Community Skypes are general conversations between students - sharing ideas, what happening, new and checking-in with each other.

Please comment below to join: 

Join the MAPP Module Two Skype on MORE tonight Monday 16th

Some people asked this weekend about another Module Two Skype. - We are have a MORE focus Skype with MAPP students tonight at 8pm. If you are on Module Two and would like to joint this please comment below. Remember comment are moderated on this blog so you will not see your comment appear straight away.

Adesola
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Community Skypes

We are adding some 'community Skypes' as a response to the current news and changes and the isolation that they move towards. These are Skypes we can orchestrate through my (Adesola's) blog but they are for you to talk to each other informally, share ideas about the course but also larger approaches or challenges to your practice.

They are to keep in touch and support each other as the BAPP (and MAPP) community.
The first on will be
Thursday 19th March 7pm (time in London) 
Comment below if you will join. 

About first person and the notion of bias and the 'truth'...


You may have noticed I try not to use words like 'bias' and 'truth' because their meaning is so different in qualitative research (which we are doing - where they could have no meaning) from quanititive research (where they have a a lot of meaning). I put these videos together to talk around the idea of how we are present in our own experiences and in our own research. The practice as research approach I take means that it is not about trying to be neutral or un-bias. Instead it is about being reflective, reflexive and questioning...together these videos demonstrate this...

We ask you to writing in First person because you are the filter through which you are experiencing life and making meaning. This is seeing a constructed world in which you are the builder. We need to know who is doing the building – you need to present. This raises questions about what is truth – is it more ‘true if I writing the building was the best thing every built’ or if I write ‘I felt the building was the best construction I had walked into.’ Is the building better because you are out of the sentence? 

We have to ask where we stand on truth, learning, facts – objective truth. Here is montage of videos and questions that together an assemblage for addressing the ethics of where ‘I’ am in what I write…  

Lying is a corporative act so is truth... 


Truth – learn from history for the better of the world – there is objective truth...










....truth... 




(digital) literacy becomes important...

‘…gave us access to everything but it also gave everything to us… discriminate between the things that genuinely matter and the' rhetoric 'of life…’ 

Where you are in all this determines what it means... so you need to be present in it when you write about it. That is why we ask you write in first person. 
What do you think?...

Sunday 15 March 2020

Friday March 20th- Online session with a Module 2 focus

What if you don't interview anyone? The central place of analysis

Online Session with a Module 2 focus (AC13622)
Friday the 20th of March- 6pm (Time in London) 

Comment below to indicate if you are joining. Let us know what you are interested in sharing during the discussion.

Wednesday 4 March 2020

Campus Session

We looked at Mapping - mapping practice, mapping for inquiry -
We asked each other questions about the maps we had of our practice and inquiry.
This led to thinking about:

Anushka - The exploration of different cultures/ environments within my training and how these have influenced how I conduct myself while training and performing. This has added discussion point for my ethical considerations to link into my areas of learning.

Bronte - Today we looked how previous experiences have changed the way we approach our practice and looked into the grey areas on our maps - Broaden your minds!

Tom - I found it very helpful to understand that we are casting a large net in order to come up with our point of inquiry. I was maybe trying to be too specific immediately, rather than allowing the research and mapping work to inform the choices that I made to take to inquiry.

What are your thoughts on mapping
Comment below...

Monday 2 March 2020

Dance and Society - gender


Thinking about how dance impacts on social structures and how social structure impact on dance...
https://www.ted.com/talks/trevor_copp_and_jeff_fox_ballroom_dance_that_breaks_gender_roles 



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