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Culturama Final Reflection

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Now that Culturama has finished, it is time to reflect back onto this experience. The whole experience of Culturama was amazing and much more fun than I expected it to be. I got to work with my friends and learn new things with and from them as well. In the end the commitment and hard work that we all put into the dance and performance was all worth it. The energy on the stage that night was amazing, something I will never forget. Although I still don’t think I am the best dancer, I do think I learnt a lot from this experience, how to learn new skills and focus my attention onto doing so. Performance night was a very good experience, with my parents watch as well, the energy on stay was so energetic especially when we performed the Can-Can. I learnt a lot from my amazing dance leaders and although I don’t know if I will try dancing again in the future, it was defiantly a memory I will never forget and was 100% worth all the hard work I put in. I am so proud of myself and my fellow dancers, especially my dance leaders, for the final show we put on, although we went through some bumpy times where the dance was not a good as it could have been, we managed to pull everything together at the end and have an amazing show to perform.

Culturama Initial Reflection

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I have never previously participated in Culturama before, but since this is my last academic school year at UWC I decided that it would be a nice opportunity and experience to join before I leave. I had a few difference dances that I was thinking about joining as a possibility, but the France dance was run by 2 of my good friends, and they expressed to me that they thought their dance would be a good fit for me.

I have been participating in practice for a few weeks now and I find the commitment really similar to Kahaani. I am finding it a lot easier not as I have had the experience of Kahaani last year so I know how a weekly lunch rehearsal(or more) can feel like even when you don’t feel like participating sometimes. Unlike Kahaani, in my Culturama dance I have a lot more friends and people I know, making the commitment part of the activity a lot easier and making the dance a lot more fun overall. I have not missed any practice for the first couple of weeks and we even had an extra optional practice that I attended since dancing is not something I am very good at, I feel a responsibility as part of the group to put my time in to make sure I do not fall behind and cause any trouble to my dance leaders too. I am very excited to keep working hard on Culturama for the next season, our dance seems to be turning out very well and I’m looking forward to seeing the final product !

 

 

Initial Reflection

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This year, I will participated in Kahaani for the first time. I’m in the bollywood/hardcare dance on Thursdays. I have never before in my life been in a dance performance such as Kahaani. It was a very new experience for me as I haven’t danced before or performed in from of an audience in a lot time.

Starting this new experience with Kahaani, there are some things that I need to think about in order to properly do my best in it. In order to do so, I need to become more aware of my strengths and weaknesses when it comes to something like this, which I have never done before. I have had no previous experiences like Kahaani and it is a very new so I think that some of my weaknesses will be the commitment that is required to work at something like this for a longer period of time. I am also not used to working in a group and collaborating in such a way that everything must be done together and you have to be conscious of everyone else. In order to improve this I think I just need to try my hardest to be there for rehearsal every time and to stay focused during, to not distract anyone or get distracted myself. I will also try to contribute as much as I can if needed, to give feedback to the dance leader and be part of the group as much as I can. Another big weakness I will experience during this is my dance skills, I don’t have any since I’ve never been in a proper dance like this before so I will also have to try my best to practice and memorise the dance moves. Some of my strengths for this could be that I am a really good listener, and I always try my best to pay attention and understand what is being told to me. I think I will be able to try my hardest to learn the dance even if I find it difficult, mainly because I know people will be watching it and I don’t want to let down my dance group. Over the first few weeks of Kahaani I have learnt a lot about collaborating with new people, and how to listen and follow instructions closely. I have also learnt new dancing skills that I could possibly use in the future if I choose to do a performance like this again such as Culturama next year(LO1 & LO2). new experience for me, not only Overall, I hope the new experience of Kahaani will let me explore new opportunities maybe in the future if I want to rejoin Kahaani next year, or possibly looking at other dance opportunities.

Final Reflection

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Taking part in Kahaani this year was overall, a really great experience and I felt really proud of myself in taking part and trying something I’ve never done before.

In order to properly participate and take part in the dance, weekly practices were in place at lunch, which like any other student, isn’t exactly I time in which you want to go to practice, but I managed to attend every practice and I didn’t miss a single one. Each practice session we would firstly practice, but we would also have to talk and figure out our formations and sometimes our dance leader would let us interpret her dance moves she showed us and we would be allowed to voice our opinion on which move we thought was best for the dance. I knew that, not having been part of an experience like this before, I needed to make sure I was on top of it and didn’t bail on practices, especially when my friend in the dance did start to skip practice. I really promised to myself that I had to go to each weekly practice, as I missed one because I was overseas, I really needed to attend the rest or I would fall behind. For me, I wasn’t very difficult to participate and try my hardest during practice as I wanted my first ever performance to be something to be proud of(LO4). I’m not a very good performer and sometimes I get stressed and heated under pressure. At the end of our ‘journey’, with the performance 2 weeks later, I had to take a trip to Holland, missing 1 practice, which put me behind a little bit as the new moves I couldn’t really grasp. I asked someone in my group to teach it to me, and I tried my best to practice as much as I could until I memorized it. I have always had a problem with dance as I find it hard to memorize the steps and the order, sometimes during rehearsal I would fall behind or miss a move, but thankfully, during the final performance everything went smoothly, even the extra finale dance as well.

I think I learnt a lot with this new experience that I will take further if I ever do something like this again, using the new skills that I learnt.