Hannah lees BAPP

After recently watching the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma (Director Jeff Orlowski, 2020), recommended to us by our course leader. I found myself shocked by the statistics and ethnical discussions involved within social media, and how some of the founders of the social media industry are scared of what they have helped discover and make. Working along with vulnerable childr en and teenagers, a large majority involved with "healthy young minds" safety online is a key emphasis on my practice and there are a number of tactics we have in place to help limit the amount of online access they have. Including; an E-safety award. Meaning they are unable to use any form of internet in school without the award, including personal mobile phones. Screen watch, allowing teachers and teaching assistants to see exactly what the student is on, to name a few. The a mount of SEN children who struggle with their mental health is already high. They are more "likely to experience me...

After my conversations this past weeks with both Helen and Adesola. I have realised I need to look at myself, not changing my practice but broadening it. Something that lot of artists have had to do during the pandemic.  Helen suggested that I should create a map of my practice now. I have found this really mind opening, since I am focusing on such different people and work environment its nice to have it down on one place. So I can focus on myself and my practice and not other work colleagues places in work as well. I am sure I will find more things in conjunction to my practice as I continue but right now I have a mind map of the things I am currently doing in in my job Using this I can keep referring back to it and re-evaluating where and what I am doing with my module 2 proposal.

I was involved in the welcome skype on Saturday at 3pm. It was mix of new and old students and was nice to get to talk to everyone again and get back into the way of thinking for the BAPP. We first had a little run through and reminder on where to find everything we need on UniHub. This was really good for me as I almost had forgotten how much additional information is there. Especially now I am heading further into the course and going to be using yet more resources.  We talked about to think of the support for this course like 3 pillars.     Firstly the UniHub. Where once we are on the page, we can find any additional information that we need, through clicking on the dropdown sections that are there.  Secondly, using the BAPP community. This I did fairly often last module and found it very useful and supportive. The course has a Facebook page we can ask each other questions, advice and anything else we want to know. Last module I also had a skype with a few ot...

Lockdown has been a huge eye opener for me, along with many other people. It has given me alot of time to think about where I want to go next with my career, dancing and past dancing. I started this degree almost knowing I had maybe 3-5 years left performing, maybe more. Knowing I could possibly slip straight into another job i want to do when the time came, unknowing to when that was. However I didn't think the time would come this soon. After so much thought, tears and many sleepless nights. I have made the hardest decision ever, to hang up my dancing shoes, for now!! And focus on another one of my passions. A few weeks ago, very last minute, I applied for a job as a teaching assistant in a special needs school that specialises in autism and helping children and young adults adapting to live an amazing life. I didn't think much would have come of it. I wasn't qualified, other than my dance teaching qualifications and many many hours of voluntary work I have done over...

LOCKDOWN DAY... WHO KNOWS😅😅 After receiving my first grade for Module one, (which I am over the moon with.) I thought I would just do a little update on everything that's going on at the moment. It has been a whirlwind of emotions the last few months. With being in the creative industry at this particular time and Covid19 still a massive pandemic, my life has changes drastically to what I thought 2020 would be. With my dancing I was luckily enough to have basically a whole year of work lined up going into February of 2021. I now find myself working in my local supermarket, not what I want to be doing even though I am massively grateful for the work at such a difficulty time.  I am massive believer of "everything happens for a reason" and even though it has been very hard at times, I find that telling myself the positives of being at home has helped me with not only my mental health but my understanding of what is going on. Something that might help other people too? One...

I did it! First module done and I just wanted to write somthing about how I'm feeling at this moment.  I managed to get both sections of the module done before the extension was announced. I was going to go back over my work carry on trying to make amendments and make what iv done better. I did however decided to hand in my work to the original deadline and have the extra few weeks to focus on my mental health.  With covid19, like alot of people, I have found myself having no purpose, and feeling down alot of the time. Hence why I decided to get the first module off my chest and have almost a holiday from everything.  At first I found the course very confusing, not only have I never wrote an essay in the first person. Iv also never had the chance to realise and understand what I have learnt while dancing professionally. It was really nice to look back and evaluate what iv accomplished in my short career, up to now, and set myself a clearer path of what I hope to do once t...

After a few weeks of trying to put together a solid idea of what I was going to do for my "diagram", after a short 1-1 with Helen today I finally feel like I have a set idea of what I want my outcome to be. I had three ideas in my head all very different, I had even started two of them. I was finding it really difficult to understand what was the "right" way to go about it. With the criteria being so wide and open, I felt a little out of depth with what was expected of us. I feel like the way I now look at my practise and what is significant to me presently is completely different to what it was like when I was in my training, and this is where I was struggling, In training I was influenced by the choreographers and dance styles I was studying as part of my criteria then, very influential people like Martha Graham, Cunningham, Fosse, and Fred Astaire. Now after taking a slightly different route down the showgirl style, rather than musical theatre. It got me thin...