Dance Chapter 3 Summary

“Training as the medium through which”, chapter 3, written by Melanie Bales is a chapter that is written on the theme of self-discovery and how as dancers we could apply the ideas to ourselves. Melanie Bales is a professor at Ohio State where she graduated from Interlochen Arts Academy. Bales also studied at the Joffrey School and was a Harkness Ballet Trainee. Throughout this article, I experienced different things for myself when going through and reading each section. A lot of references that were stated in the book allowed me to see dance through a whole new perspective. Taking the first part of this chapter, “learning how to dance” is not a straight path traveling forward, but it is more of a journey of discovery and trial and error. For me, occasionally I am very hard on myself and I experience the feeling of “I feel like I’m not getting better at this” or “I feel like I’m getting worse at this”. During our discussion in class on Monday, Professor Hapke stated that Deborah Hayes says that the body …show more content…
(29) When reading that, my mind automatically goes to how it provides a network or forum for artist interaction. During our technique class, we typically perform a phrase and then discuss things about the phrase and breaking it apart. Personally, this helps a lot for me because after learning it for the first time I like to perform it once to make sure I have the choreography down pat before we go back as a class and break down the little technique things and ideas that I didn’t have before. My body and mind are constantly going in different directions making sure I have this and making sure that my technique is correct. Not only does this affect my dance, but it happens to me through everyday life of “what is due next”, “what time do I have to be there”, “when does it start”,