Monday, April 11, 2016 "The Criticisms of Teaching Dance."

Monday, April 11, 2016
Week: 35
Songs to Remember:

        It's gonna be a work-filled week alright. But no, not today, heh. I wasn't as motivated to do shit today since I had to wake up as early as pretty much school-time, only to be pissed off a bit from practice.

        I'm not hating on the instructors who were teaching the dance, the dance was not difficult at all. But, I still struggled "remembering" the moves. Not because I was doing them incorrectly, not because, etc, etc. But because I simply did not know what move was next. 3 hours (not continuous of course. The practice started like 10-15 minutes late, as well as a break in-between so). I practiced the chorus a bit the night before, so I thought I was ready.

        The shitty part was that they taught the moves/ perceived the moves to be very different from what I learned/saw from the practice video. Also, we had to learn the beginning, along with chorus, not just the chorus. I got a little pissed off at how we were "conditioning" (creating muscle memory) a lot of the simple moves, rather than focusing on shit that needed more work on. That sorta pissed me off, but, I let it slide.

        And of course, those 3 hours were decided to be for the whole bit that we're gonna do for the K-Pop showcase event show. Like, what we learned in those 3 hours is basically what we're gonna perform (plus transitions and whatnot). And so, with that, there were evaluations. Recorded, evaluations. I'd like it if they tell us if there will be evaluations or not for the practice so that I can just learn the dance by myself at home. Then, come to practice and just pretend to go along with it all or whatever.

        Because honestly, I just can't learn a dance in the short time-span intervals for these practices anymore, I need to be able to see it be performed and see the specific part that's performed by done over and over again, so that I can slow it down, analyze, etc. So, yeah. Learning "Drip Drop" took a while, but I was able to manage it, and yeah, I do have all the moves memorized right now.

        But anyways, that was just my opinion, I'm just sick and tired of learning a dance only to forget moves. Like, we practiced the first part of the song for about an hour, then spent an hour on the chorus. Then, the third hour was on both, but it was treated as like not even practice anymore, just like "You better get that retrieval in your memory." We spent an hour focusing on the chorus, having nothing of review on the first part during that time. I'd like it if they add a move, then do the whole dance again, with that move. Then add onto that: add another move, then do the whole dance again with that move. This way, you're always reviewing and not have to focus like, 10 different details onto a 1-second move, only to forget the rest of what you learned.

        That's just me, for now. Umm, was pretty tired from the practice, half of it was from it being earlier than I'm used to, half from the teaching methods. I essentially did nothing but finish a bit of English work (apparently we're still using the vocabulary book, which we haven't used in a while). Also, yesterday I completely forgot I had the e-portfolio that was due for Chinese. Apparently the teacher didn't care too much, 'cause I got a 170/170 for it anyways.

        And yeah. Relaxing (for the most part), day. Also played a bit of Binding of Isaac late at night. It's 12:39 AM right now. So, see ya.