Nicole's BAPP Blog

Everyone knows how important a CV is, it shows a potential employer you 'dance history' and information about your body before you even participate in the dance part of the audition! (this is a really scary concept for me!) Writing my CV as a Professional Profile made my evaluate my current CV very closely. Attending 2 vocational schools from the age of 11 meant I had many 'end of year performances' and 'child roles in professional companies'. Although some of these performances had respected choreographers and directors (and felt like yesterday to me)  I have come to realise that these shows were still part of my training and not my 'Professional Performances and Employment' I have now also formed 2 separate CV's, one that I use to send for ballet/ contemporary companies and the other for cruise ship/show girl jobs. I decided to do this because the requirements and important information to list is very different for these genres of dance. I have...

Saturday 10th I had my first Skype session with Adesola, Helen, Rachel, Natalie, Matt, Michael, Syanne, Ambre and Arghierenia! Primarily new Module One students introduced themselves and the Module Two students offered some words of wisdom as they embark on their second year. Here I find myself wondering how 10 days has passed so fast since the Skype session took place! But as the Module Two students mentioned, we all live such busy lives as Professional Artists so it is really important to use the precious time we have and schedule time to study according to our own schedules. Luckily I wrote some notes from the session and made some useful voice notes which was also advised as a great tool to capture an idea or important information in the moment. Other important information Adesola and Helen spoke about was to read the handbook more than once, writing a blog about the new layer of reflection. Arghierenia mentioned setting reminders on your phone for deadlines ahead of the BAPP...