Alys Davies BAPP Blog

On Monday 16 th  November 2020 I attended the Module 1 discussion group centred around ‘Synthesis of Information through Reflection’.  Multiple topics and ideas were discussed but several in particular resonated with me.    Adesola (who was leading this session), made the excellent point about how all the ‘data’ we have collected throughout this module relevant to our practice is malleable. There is always the opportunity to use the data to express one particular idea whilst also expressing another. I feel this ties in excellently with another point made during the session, namely that our presentation of our practice does not have to be one solid ‘shape’, but can continually change and be open to adaptation. The concept of not separating dance (or our art form) from academia was also mentioned which I believe follows on from this, since I have had personal experience with struggling to make my wide and varied practice ‘fit’ into a narrow academic box. In my opi...

I recently handed in my drafts of my Reflective Essay and Diagram for Module ACI3611. This whole process made me question what the term ‘draft’ really entails and how it can relate to me and my practice.    The Cambridge Dictionary defines a draft as:  ‘a  piece  of  text , a  formal   suggestion , or a  drawing  in  its   original   state , often  containing  the  main   ideas  and  intentions  but not the  developed   form ’   Sticking to this definition, what I handed in cannot really be qualified as a ‘draft’ since the ideas were developed and the pieces were vastly different from how I originally wrote them. But then again, we often distinguish between first, second, third drafts and so on. At what point does a draft cease to be a draft and become a ‘finished’ piece of work?    If we look at this in terms of the dance world, and thus my practice, all pieces o...