Maryland Studioz: Dance / Fitness / Holistic

Are any of you looking for dance and fitness classes to join or perhaps you want to hire space?

Maryland Studioz is a local studio based in East london, the heart of Stratford.
Only a 10 minute walk from the soon to be Olympic stadium.

With three state of the art equipped studios, we hold regular classes available for all. Here at Maryland Studioz, we provide a warm and friendly environment.

Check out our website for more information on classes/timetables, teachers or hiring space.

www.marylandstudioz.com

Also, follow us on twitter to find out about more upcoming things that will be taking place here @MarylandStudioz

Campus session 09/11/2011: The Networked Professional

Today session was one of my favourites so far. I was really intrigued as to how important not only is it to reflect but do the right networking. Before this session, I had no idea actually how wide my networking range is. Today made me realise that I didn’t actually see this until it was written and mapped out on paper:

General professional networking is:

• Potential business partners / customers
• Advertising yourself
• People on the same course as you whilst studying (BAPP)
• Collaborating
• Meeting people with similar interests to you
• People who may be learning
• Google! (type in your specific field)
• Promoting
• Developing your connections with people
• Recommendations 

Soon after discussing this, our task was to in groups make a networking map. I thought this was going to prove to be hard but as soon as I started to write stuff down, it was almost like my hand I was writing with took control.

My personal map was as follows:

         

ROZANA:

*         UNI >> BAPP (course)

                             >> Degree

                             >> Peers>>blogs>>modules

                             >> Academic advisers

*         SOCIAL MEDIA >> Technology

                                >> professional networking websites

                                >> Advertising yourself

                                >> Promoting

                                >> Google your field>>research>>find potential links

                                >> Youtube>>showreels>>performances>>feedback

                                >> Finding new connections

*         DANCE >> Auditions>>meeting new people

                   >> Choreographers/choregraphing>>meeting new dancers

                   >> Performance opportunities>>networking with audience

                                   >>Teaching assisting>>experience>>leading my dance group

                   >> Becoming more capable of widening my network

*        ACTING >> Theatre

                    >> Looking out for potential agencies to be a part of

                    >> Training and gaining more experience

                    >> Previous theatre school and uni performances>>networking

*         WORK >> Student’s parent’s

                  >> Customers (you never know who you are speaking to)

*         FAMILY >> Media and Marketing (elder brother)

 
After this session, I believe I felt so much more confident to continue to network using these different ways we discussed. I am not sure if I can speak for all my collegues, but I found this session extremely helpful and beneficial.

News.

Hey everyone, hope all is well!

I am currently sat at work not so busy today so thought I'd better update my blog and share something with you.

About a week ago, I was busy rehearsing at the studio with my dance group. Our main director and choreographer of the group was paying our cost of studio hire to the gentleman who's studio it was. He'd addressed her asking if he could have 2 or 3 of her dancers for a show.

A few days ago me and two others were told that he wanted us to go to Birmingham at the beginning of December to perform at an event called 'The Clothes Show.' I was surprised as I normally tend to see this broadcasted on television, so never thought I would actually be asked to be part of it.

I am looking forward to this but it also means alot of extra rehearsals as well as my normal schedule, as we only have a few weeks to go, but I am sure it will all be very worth it.

I will be sure to post during the process and not forgetting also to post on our performances as it will be for 3 days :-)

Group Rehearsal/Class

Last Tuesday, I was told that this was the day I would be taking/leading rehearsals but this time as we have just done a show and didn’t have anything coming up just yet, my creative director and I thought it would be a good idea if for today we should make our groups rehearsal into a one off open class so anybody could just turn up.

I spent a couple of days in advance choreographing around four to five eights of a routine so that I could teach it. I decided that I’m not only teaching a routine but passing on my knowledge of what I know and have learnt in dance so far. Instead of teaching at the pace that people are used to, I wanted to make it a little bit of a challenge and tried to get through more in the space of one hour than we would normally do.

Reflecting back on this session, I think it went quite well as I got a lot of positive feedback and many of them told me they loved my routine because it was slightly different. I was happy about this because when teaching a class not only do you want them to learn but it is also nice if they actually enjoy it and come out of the session feeling good. I will definitely be doing this again.

But for now, no time to waste- ITS ON TO CHOREOGRAPHING THE NEXT ROUTINE!