Changing ideas..

When exploring the idea of site specific work on April 28th, we came to a standstill. Although we knew we were interested in the researching and documenting protocols, we found little else of interest in the space area. We decided to go for a more adventurous idea of memory.

The main points we want to explore are;

Personal memory
Dancers movement memory
How do we record what we learn
(Physically and mentally)
How does one recall movement in the brain

These became the basis to some of our research questions...

1) what is the process of remembering and recording movement
2) how does a dancer pick up steps
3) how does a dancer learn off of video as a tool of memory recapping
4) do counts and numbers help more for movement memory or is it internal breath

Looking into these concepts sparked a range of activity ideas for our sessions of research.
We decided an interesting one would be to create movement for a class, and movement for a camera, playing the dance girls a video of something vs learning it kinaesthetic ally. We want to record the different ways the girls learn, and see if it is harder one way or another.

Another activity we thought would be fun was looking in learning styles for memory of movement. The style arguably most widely acknowledged and used is the VAK preferences.

• Visual
• Audio
• Kinaesthetic

There are three learning modalities adopted from Barbe, Swossing and Malone (1979), which consider the strengths and concepts of these ideas. The main issue is the concept of having a 'style', when arguably it is just a preference. Peter Flemings VARK model is an adaption of this. 

We are now in the process of devising these activities for exact time and content precision, when finished we will upload! We also are making a schedule for the timeline we have, in order to keep a tab on how much time we are spending on what, as to not fall behind

Bye for now

C x

Walter Burke Barbe; Raymond H. Swassing; Michael N. Milone, Jr. (June 1979). Teaching Through Modality Strengths: Concepts and Practices. Columbus, Ohio: Zaner-Blosner.

• Walter Burke Barbe; Raymond H. Swassing; Michael N. Milone, Jr. (June 1979). Teaching Through Modality Strengths: Concepts and Practices. Columbus, Ohio: Zaner-Blosner. ISBN 978-0-88309-100-5.

• Walter Burke Barbe; Raymond H. Swassing; Michael N. Milone, Jr. (June 1979). Teaching Through Modality Strengths: Concepts and Practices. Columbus, Ohio: Zaner-Blosner. ISBN 978-0-88309-100-5.