What does it take to make a confident ensemble that works cohesively? This 2020 study of an amateur choir comes up with some interesting ideas. Enjoy!

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Welcome to Season 2 of Bringing out their Best. This season we are going to look at effective feedback for developing performing artists. Today's episode is about whether we should bother with feedback at all or are we wasting our breath!

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Today’s article reviewed over 3700 studies to see how the performing arts plays an integral role in improving and maintaining well-being.

So let’s remind ourselves of these benefits and how we can renew our wellbeing and be rewarded too!

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Be honest… have you ever thought about using drama to teach scientific concepts to a group of 10 year olds? I know I haven’t. 

Today's study looks at how 10 year olds research Electricity and turn it into an award winning play!

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In recent years there’s been a shift towards recognising and empowering those in our community whom have historically been without a voice. e.g. Black Lives Matter, Me2 and LGBTQI+ movements.

As teachers there has been a growing requirement for our cultural competence but can we ever learn sufficient skills to achieve competence in another culture?

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In the last few months we have examined how Actors and Musicians memorise. Today we are going to look at how Dancers memorise hours of complex movement sequences, and find out if there are any symmetries between their strategies and those of other performing artists.

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Are you a performing arts teacher and a perfectionist? I suspect if I asked who wasn’t I might get a more manageable response. Well, we’ve talked about perfectionism in our students and what we can do to help them but today I thought I’d talk about perfectionism in ourselves, the teachers.

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Are you the kind of person who can’t stop thinking about a performance after it is done? Particularly if it didn’t go as planned? I confess I am guilty of this and as it turns out, I’m not the only one. This is actually a thing. It’s even got a name - Post-Event Rumination.

So does it matter if our students’ ruminate after performances? Is it something we should be concerning ourselves with? And if so, what can we do about it?

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We all know that as performing artists we are expected to perform whilst others are watching. Well our students arguably have it worse. From their perspective, they have to perform whilst others watch and assess their performance for grading, admissions, competitions and the like. Ok, professionals have it bad too but we are teachers so we have to focus on the kiddies.

The thing about artistic performance is that it is qualitative and experiential, making measurement of techniques used to focus for performance quite tricky. This is where sport is helpful, because there is usually a points system that is undeniably quantitative. So today we are going to take a look at a study of focusing techniques as trialed on soccer players kicking goals and hopefully we can draw a few lessons that can help our students to better focus when they are performing under pressure. 

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I don’t know about you, but I certainly have some “entitled students” come into my studio. 

You know the type I mean? Who feel they deserve special treatment that isn’t warranted based on their academic performance. The students who believe their minimal effort should be publicly rewarded, that you are available to them at anytime and that everyday problems should mean extensions and special consideration. 

Well recently, someone shared an article about academic entitlement stemming from the “dark triad” of personality traits. In light of my experience and the mention of a dark triad, this article captured my attention, so I thought it might be fun to spend this week looking at how to handle our most difficult students and see if this article can offer any insights or suggestions.

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