Week 3:
With new media, artists in any practice can easily share their creations. Specifically for dancers, YouTube or even Facebook can be huge factors in "getting yourself out there." Online audition videos, audition photos, even short bios with some information on your dance experience can get you noticed or help you get a job. In fact, I have been told that having a dance photo as your profile picture on Facebook could land you a chance at an audition. Facebook is also incredibly convenient for making connections in the dance world. YouTube and other video sites can also help further a dancers career just because it serves as a place to find recordings of former dancers. Even just watching these videos or watching how people train or the details they put into performances can help a dancer improve.
As for my e-portfolio, I had fun playing around with the colors and fonts as well as the layout and overall look of my website. Luckily, the only issue I ran into was indecisiveness. I had a hard time choosing which font I liked best. There were so many to choose from. However, I had no trouble choosing a theme. I personally have a love for the outdoors, specifically flowers, so I knew the cherry blossom theme was for me. (No, flowers aren’t exactly the quote-unquote “most professional” theme I could have chosen, but I think that I needed to show my personality as well as my professionalism. Therefore, I chose to portray myself through the flowers.)
My blog, however, was a bit of a challenge. No matter how I searched for the William Kentridge video I wanted, I could not find it. Nor could I find the embed code for the video so I could paste it into my blog. So I simply chose to revise that post and took the video off completely since it was merely extraneous information. Other than that, I really liked the overall look of my blog (colors, layout, theme, compositions, etc) so I left that untouched.
Week 4:
One of the most important and most vital processes of a dancers career is the audition process. For this, dancers need to have the knowledge of how to make a clean, professional grade audition video. It is for this reason that I would most like to learn more about how to make one.
Another important aspect of being a dancer is knowing how you move and knowing what types of movement you feel most comfortable with. Keeping this in mind, I will be creating either a website or a new page on my portfolio in which I compile video segments of new movements we create each week in my Comp class. This “movement portfolio” will allow me to keep track of everything I create so that I can refer back to them literally with a simple click of a button. It will also give me a place to upload fully choreographed dances, etc, as time goes along. I could even upload variations from my BL5 Variations class, allowing me easy access to them for auditions, etc. Timing this project will depend heavily on my rehearsal schedule but I plan on trying to film what movements I currently have on Monday or after my later rehearsals Tuesday. This way I can have the rest of the week to create my website/portfolio page and fix any minor details that might need work. Other than my indecisiveness, I don’t plan on running into many problems, but if I do encounter any, it will most likely be finding decent studio space to film. I already know that I need to be neatly dressed and presentable in my videos, as well as clean and clear with my dancing so that the choreography shows up well on the recording. I hope to learn more on how to piece these videos into a website/portfolio page as well as more on what angles or lighting helps “show off” my movements the best. Next week will be an interesting feat but I’m positive it will turn out well in the end! Wish me luck!!
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