Christmas Cover

Hey guys,  I made this video as a Christmas card to a couple of very close friends of mine, I thought I's share it with you. I recorded the song for the advent calendar I've been part of this year. Hope you enjoy it :)

Ave maria.

hi guys this is my christmas cover of ave maria... for you. Theres a 2 min linking story at the beginning but its the right video. xx check it out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeaLRjPNmQQ

UHOH! It's December!! CAMPUS SESSION NOV 21ST

I've seen a couple of blogs saying how quick time is going, I COMPLETELY AGREE. One of my songs has the lyrics "Time goes slow when you don't want it that way, time goes fast when you need it to stay", and I really believe it! When you're bored with nothing to do, don't you find yourself wishing the day away, but when its all happening and you need all the time you can get its practically gone in the time it takes for you to blink.

Last week I headed over to Hendon to drop off my library books and attend the campus session. Alan and paula were present, and we were looking at defining what is meant by the word support and success. What does it mean to support the arts? Does is mean providing finacial support or just going to see free shows when you can. In a way is support simply engagement. Supporting by just keeping it going.

Nice to see my friend Chiara has joined the course. As a fellow Conti girl I wish you all the best of luck with the course! :)

We then talked about the literature we read. When you read an article you need to check who wrote it because they can easily be written from biased opinions or be funded by a company with an agenda.

When you take a question and go through a process with it, you have to look at it from different angles in order to sort of break it down and find lots of different in depth meanings and answers. Perhaps a better way of phrasing that is just don't the question or its answer at face value.

It was suggested that you do not need to be academic to be a good dancer. Why is it that our professional vocational diploma courses are not enough?
Its true not all good dancers are good teachers but its also true that some of the dance teachers in schools are not good dancers. So why is it it enough that the bad dancer with the teaching qualification can teach in schools, but a good dancer, who went to a professional dance school, and has their ISTD teaching qualifications, would then also need to go back and get some sort of degree before they could teach.
My question, if we don’t need to be ‘academic’ to be good dancers, why do we not just train and then do teacher training why do we need to have the degree top up, is our vocational training just not seen as worthy?

The aim of the BAPP course is to try to get you to think through things more and to open your mind up to possibility. We were all given a list of words and asked to choose a few in groups and come up with a definition. 

We chose Rehearsal, Deconstruction, Argument and Communication. On the bits of paper we have brainstormed what words came to mind when trying to define it and then a short definition at the bottom of the page.

I thought breaking these words down was pretty interesting as I realised that we use these words everyday without having a clear definition of what each one means.

If we were to apply the same process to questions given to us on a regular basis we'd find that the possible answers are much greater.

I've added some pictures, so If you missed the campus session you can have a look at what we were doing. We also filmed our definitions and there's a link for that below :)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWrJiNV7aMs

Adesola mentioned she'd like to see what I do, so I got a couple of clips recorded for you all :)

Lil cheeky video from my set the other night

Quick blog

Just a quick one to say I've started pulling together bits of video footage from this summer to chop into the final artefact. I think I've settled on the Idea of making a music video...displaying everything I've been doing, toying with the idea of putting little sentences across it ? almost like little bullet point tips. what do you think? though I do want to end up with a usable video, I want to make sure that its useful and helpful to others at the same time.  Anyway where is everyone else at?x

Group Skype

Yesterday morning, myself, Adesola, and Natalie and Kim from module 2 all got together on skype to have a bit of a brainstorm and a chat about what we're all up to. Well for the most part we just explained to each other where we were up to and what we were each looking at. I think the skype session was quite helpful for Kim and Natalie as it gave them a chance to talk to someone on the next module. I think because the readers are so dense and very wordy, its easy in module 2 to get bogged down in that and try and make sure you're looking at all the case studies but actually I remember getting to the case studies and even trying to finish reading them was hard enough. I pointed out that the readers are there mostly just to get you thinking, make your mind a bit more active and consider other points of view and that you should just take what you can from them. You don't have to apply every single one to your situation or come up with the answer. It's more to get you asking the questions. The ladies were also struggling with some of the research in module two, and panicking about not getting responses, but I think hearing from Adesola and myself that actually module two isn't so much about gathering your research, its more about considering the different methods and working out which ones will be best for you to use in module three.
For me, I would have liked some input from someone else in module three, purely so I could check that I'm on the right track. But talking to people in module two reminded me about ethics and Adesola's advise about that to them was actually very applicable to myself. I kind of skimmed over the ethics section in module two. Not because was being lazy, but more because my inquiry is based 96% on pre-existing data. So I didn't really feel that the inquiry taking place was going to effect too many people in that way. It certainly wouldn't effect work or the artists. Speaking about ethics with the group reminded me that there is more to it. Ethics is not about right or wrong but about how you are experienced. So in a way my whole inquiry relates to ethics because it s about how I am experienced as an artist when I try out these methods. So I can take from this skype chat that I need to go back to module two and just have another look at the ethics section and try and rethink it a bit.
It was also suggested that though I've been writing about what I've been doing, perhaps it might be nice to hear what I've been getting up to. So I'm gonna whack a couple of my songs that I've written and recorded onto hear for you :)

https://soundcloud.com/georgiebirdmusic/easy-to-go

https://soundcloud.com/georgiebirdmusic/cabin-fever

https://soundcloud.com/georgiebirdmusic/tula-rae

https://soundcloud.com/georgiebirdmusic/then-theres-you

https://soundcloud.com/georgiebirdmusic/saw-it-coming

those will take you to soundcloud, please have a listen and hit follow :) and I will follow you back :)
you can also find me here:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Georgie-Bird/416931698408343

and it'd be really lovely if you would hit 'Like' on that x