Keeping Up With Juliette

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post,  Last week on Tuesday, I went to an audition for Cambridge Youth Dance Company at Impington Village College. A few months ago now, before the summer, I went to the taster session for Cambridge Youth Dance Company so that I could get a better understanding of what the company sessions were going to be like. You can read all about my experience here if you missed the post. If you don't know about CYDC, it's a small company run by Kate Durrant that holds contemporary dance classes, guest workshops, and theatre trips for all of its members. In the that post I put up before the summer, I wrote about how I wasn't sure if I was going to do the audition or not because at the time, I wasn't sure if the company was for me. However, since then I began to think that I should give it a go anyway because it might be a good opportunity for me to perform in different places and get some good mentoring along the way. Plus, Kate kin...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post,  Today, I'll be posting my IB extended essay that I did on the subject of dance. In this essay, I explore how Strictly Come Dancing has helped to disseminate Ballroom and Latin dance, a previously regarded old style of dance, amongst the younger generation and how that's led to the continuity of this dance style in the modern day. This essay took me a long time to write because it focused on a very unique topic that has not really been talked about or approached before in the academic sense. Most of my friends and peers did their extended essays on subjects such as English and history, which were classic subjects for the extended essay. However, I was selected to do mine on dance and for a long time I doubted if I could write an essay that would be of the same quality as the others. Over the months, there were drafts and redrafts and paragraphs written and rewritten, as well as many meetings held with my supervisor, but eve...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, Now that I've finished the IB, I thought it would be a good idea to share my coursework with you guys, since I did spend a lot of time writing each of my essays and I wanted to share all my hard work with you. Today I am publishing my IB dance investigation where I compared two dance styles to see what was similar and what was different about each of them. Usually, this report would come with pictures but for the purpose of not getting copyrighted, I didn't include them today. But I do still hope you enjoy reading it because I certainly did, when I looked back at it.   Introduction: In this report I will compare the similarities and differences between street commercial and capoeira dance. I will be exploring the origins, the culture, and the technique of street commercial dance and capoeira in order to determine how these dance styles have evolved and grown in popularity over time. The purpose of this report is to see...