Areas of Learning

Slowing mapping out my diagram and planning my essay alongside each other seemed the best idea until I came across my Areas of Learning. I struggled recalling on knowledge I had learnt and how this manifests in my field of practise now. After my tutorial with Maria it became clearer to think back on an experience and not just recall that experience but focus more on the knowledge learnt from it and how it transfers to my Professional Practise now. As a self employed performer who also teaches my approach to knowledge is transdisciplinary. As more than one discipline is being used to contextualise my knowledge. Therefore when thinking of Areas of Learning I was relating to life auditioning as a professional dancer and life teaching.

I came up with a few different ideas some are more vague then others..

• Throughout private dance classes growing up I always danced in front of a mirror so learnt how to self correct. This was then carried through to today when I attend auditions to watch the choreographer and make sure my movements are exactly the same as theirs through self correction in a mirror. However this is only useful when their are in fact mirrors. Although you are used to, as a performer, dancing on a stage without mirrors so you cannot self correct, the performance is usually ingrained in you through tacit knowledge and muscle memory. So when I learnt a dance for the first time without a mirror in an audition I developed my physical awareness and making sure I was copying the choreographers exact style and movements. 
• Physical health- learnt through stamina in dance exams when younger. 
• Warming up properly to prevent injury. This was learnt due to an injury when rehearsing a dance in college, it was a lunch break so time was short and so was the warm up. This then led to a hamstring injury. I learnt from this is take care when warming up for the task at hand therefore transferring it to auditions and making sure I am there in plenty of time for a full scale warm up so that I am ready for dancing without the risk of injury. 
• Early learning compared to syllabus work with older children. 
• Creating choreography.
• During acting classes in college I was given scripts to learn. I remember getting my first large monologue and trying to just read it and learn it however i was finding it incredibly difficult. I then recorded the whole thing played a bit at a time out loud and copied it back like a parrot. Being a dancer I feel i may lean more towards kinasthetic learning therefore listening and repeating using auditory learning alongside kinathetic learning made it so much easier. I carry this out today when making lesson plans or learning new syllabus for classes i will teach. Although i will write it down or read through the work i skill have to get up and physically go through the lesson or syllabus to learn to then be able to perform the lesson to a high standard. 
• Dealing with lack of strength due to hyper flexibility in joints. 
• Timing, rhythm and musicality. 

These are a few different areas of learning I will choose 3 to go into more depth and generalise what the learning was so I can research literature on the general subject. 

Feel free to comment your Areas of Learning as we are all different!