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Love is a Work of Heart

I can't believe it has been over 3 weeks since my last post! Prepping for a February spring show can do that to a person!!
But next week is the big week and I could not be more excited! The Royalty dance team, under the direction of my wonderful collegues Stevie Baldwin-Sutton and Paige Harvey, look incredible and have a fantastic show! My students perform in the show as well and all the hard work will be so worth it when they finally get to take it to the stage! You MUST come!!

In what ways has technology been able to support us during this busy time? Let's check in...
1. Each class has used the Coach My Video app in order to zoom, frame-by-frame, slow-mo, to analyze their technique to polish their dance for the stage
2. Students that are ineligible to perform are using the iPads to access materials for their alternate assignment
3. Ballet 4 accessed a Giselle YouTube playlist for staging historical choreography for their Giselle dance in Spring Show
4. Dance & Media has been accessing storyboards and rough drafts of an animation that is being created by CRHS Graphic Design students. Our entire dance is a collaboration between music, choreography, and video projection. We can not wait to share this piece!

5. I have been using Apple TV to play my music from my iPad wirelessly in my room making the trips back and forth to stop the music to a halt! I'm going to have to find a way to get in my extra steps, but I love to time saver!
6. Ballet classes explored the Mimio board by playing Mimio-nary to review and recall production vocabulary we learned during our fall show
7. Classes used a Google Form I made (Grows & Glows) OR iBrainstorm to evaluate their practice videos in order to perfect and polish their performance
8. I used Photoshop on both desktop and iPad to create the Spring Show program cover and poster
9. Students and I have accessed the Spring Show music from the Google Drive no matter what space we are performing in
10. My website can be a hub of information for both students and parents in our most hectic weeks!

I have had some amazing opportunities come my way to share my love for Dance & Technology at multiple 2016 summer institutes as well as a few upcoming magazine articles I was invited to be a part of/write. I might be busy and tired but beyond that I  am overwhelmingly blessed!

With our show being next week (February 26-27, 7pm, RRISD PAC) the technology that I will be using is lighting design, sound board operator and a trigger finger on my camera showing that Love is a Work of Heart. Looking forward to bringing the blog back upon return to "normal." :) TTFN

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