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Task 3a - Current networks

  Professional Networking is important for our career because we can get jobs just from knowing someone from working together previously on a job for example. Esp, cially dancers who are trying to stay fit, they do this by joining different courses and dance workshops and at the same time they are meeting people who are already outside working in the industry and have experience teaching you or dancing next to you. It’s important to know how to communicate with people you are working with because someday they will help you find a job which can change your career completely. Most of the people who book jobs are seen and known by casting directors, not because they have more talent than let's say other trained dancers. Also you can use the online communication without the development of web 2.0 the use of online networking. As an artist and human, I am trying to keep my personal and professional networks separate because is keeps thing more professional, as both are really impo
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Task 1d: 2d Images

Images I usually love to post pictures on my Instagram because it gives you so many options to customise your photo how you like it.  I haven’t posted anything for so long but I think I need to start posting more professional pictures or videos. Now, I am trying to collect videos to do a showreel instead of posting them on social media. So, until I do a showreel, I wouldn’t post any pictures on it until it's done. I think it’s important to have some professional accepts on your personal Instagram for marketing purposes. Instagram is the easiest way to communicate with people with pictures because you just scroll down and see other people’s photographic lives. This application is mainly for photos and that’s why it gives you so many choices to customise it. The way you filter your photos to look better, the more people will look at it, like your photos and build you up to do have more followers. The purpose of this application it’s to put everything together rather tha

Networked Professional

At college in my final year, we all as third year students are represented by Bird College Agency.    We also had lessons from the agent to help us build and work on our portfolio and professional career. The agency and college is it give us slot of support by inviting so many experienced professionals to talk to us about the industry, who are already working and outside companies to audition us for jobs. All those invitations, helps us to start building up some connections for the future and taste a little bit of the "outside world".  At the sometime during that period, the college invited many different dancers and choreographers to teach or for different events. One of the choreographers, he had his own company that helped deaf people to dance and listening to the music differently. For example, because he is deaf, he knows how to helps other people. He can feel the vibration from the ground from the speakers in the class and he finds the lyrics from the songs on his p

Task 2a - Reflecting practice

At the end of my second year at Bird college summer show, I auditioned for a piece of choreography from choreographers that came to teach in college. The name of the choreography is "Penguins" because the theme of the show was "Seasons". The choreographer was really nice but the same time he was really strict about his work and that make me work harder because I know someday I will meet him again and I want him to remember me; hopefully working with him again. The rehearsals was every weekend for five weeks and the last week was every day for 6 hours every day. At the rehearsals was a mixture of second years and third years from college. In this process I learnt how to work hard under pressure, at that point I was injured so I had to take care of my self and do my best at the same time. At that I was with third year students at the rehearsals I was feeling confident, I knew that some of them was better than me so that was stopped me from fighting because I didn

Professional Networking

Spotlight Spotlight was founded in 1927 and is the UK's largest casting resource. Over 60,000 performers appear in Spotlight, including actors and actresses, child artist, presenters, dancers, and stunt artist. Thousands of production companies, broadcasters, ad agencies , and independent casting directors use Spotlight as a casting resource. Their clients range from large organisations such as the BBC, ITV, and Channel 4, to small production companies and individual casting directors. I used this website, last year because my college advised us to make an account to help us find future auditions even if we've left. I haven't used it that many times during my time at college purely because I had my college agency to sending me all the important auditions. Spotlight is a great and very successful system but I don't feel like it benefited me because in reality it's so much easier to have an agent than just this. Another reason is, you have pay every year to keep y

Part 1: Professional Communication Technologies

                                                 Types of communication There are many types of communications in our lives to help you to get people to know you, what can you do, what have you done and also what's your future plans. I am always trying my best to look good on my professional life but it's not easy. You need to have experience and learn from them. My types of communication are the most common ones for my type of professional life. It takes the time to prepare your material for the auditions that you want to show or sometimes they ask what they want to see. I don't like spending to much time to prepare my self because it really stressing me out and it makes me stopping from doing my best but at the same time I know what I'm doing. There ar two ways of professional communication in the auditions. The first way to communicate is non-verbal. For example actively listening all the direction that you've been given and show In your body language/dance

Middlesex University: BA In Professional Practice Arts

Professional  Profile After 5 years training in Cyprus to be a professional dancer. I decided to the move in UK to study a dipolma in Dance and Musical Theater at Bird college for three years. Throughout my last 2 years, I begin to write my professional CV, this consists of things such as all your credits, languages you speak, all the dance techniques/styles(ballet, commercial, tap etc.), sports(if it's necessary) and where you trained, your measurements, age, height, headshot of you and your agent.It doesn't just allow you to find jobs but also to show what you have done throughout your career. Allowing me to set up goals for the future as well as capture myself as individual on one page. This photo was taken in Cyprus on 2015 when we were doing a TV advertisement for my old dance school in Cyprus. For this advert we went to many different places, such as, old burned cinema, hotel rooftop, traditional building and other streets location. Its was really hot t