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3 July 2017
Questiong The Stigma Held Within Ballet
This is a subject that has always interested me from my own personal experiences with ballet and my general interests in the art altogether. I decided to write this arts issue for my gold arts award as its something that has always been such an issue within the world of ballet and dance itself as an art form overall and I felt so passionate about it and wanted to share this with others to see what they thought.
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3 July 2017
Going For Gold
Being 8 months down the line in my apprenticeship, I've taken some time to reflect on how Arts Award has impacted me as a young person, and looking back over my journey so far in going for my gold arts award qualification.
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3 July 2017
Is Dance a Sport or an Art?
There has always been an ongoing debate about whether dance is a sport or an art and there are a variety of social groups who have opposing views. I believe that dance is both a sport and an art however I'm interested to get a variety of view points for my Gold Arts Award!
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1 July 2017
Is Art as important as academic subjects?
What are the Arts? What are academics? And why is there a division between two respectively creative fields?
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25 June 2017
Highlights from Katherine Parkinson's Theatre Royal Haymarket masterclass
As part of the Theatre Royal Haymarket's 'Masterclass' series, wherein a master of the theatre world comes to offer aspiring Thespians, award winning actress Katherine Parkinson took to the stage.
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25 June 2017
Sunday schmoozing with The Monobox
"Any actor would be a fool not to visit The Monobox." - Joseph Marcell.
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21 June 2017
Practitioners Of My New Art Form
Learning new skills with Practitioners.
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21 June 2017
Sharing (your new art form) Is Caring
Sharing my new art form with other Arts Award students.
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21 June 2017
Introduction to Digital Art
This is my introduction to Gold Arts Award in which I will be exploring a new art form of my choice. This post will cover the first pieces of work I created.
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13 June 2017
GE17: The young person's vote
With Friday's election resulting in a hung parliament, I wanted to investigate how young people voted in the 2017 General Election and how even younger people could.
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12 June 2017
GE17: Sorry to burst your bubble, but we aren’t finished
Put down the champagne, there is still work to do yet.
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11 June 2017
The pressures and challenges for male dancers
This blog is about the pressures and challenges that male dancers go through in the industry of dance.
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9 June 2017
GE17: A victory for progressive politics
Little might actually change but yesterday's vote was a huge achievement for progressive politics.
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8 June 2017
GE17: Generation Rent
Young people face astronomical costs for house deposits preventing us from being able to by property like our parents did, if at all. Paired with rocketing rent costs and other financial barriers, we are making young people too dependent on their parents - for those who are lucky enough to get that support.
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8 June 2017
GE17: Hands off my Human Rights
Human Rights protect us all - changing them is the first step down a slippery slope to a dystopian nightmare.
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8 June 2017
GE17: Why do we hate talking about politics?
It sounds perfectly simple: just bash it out with people willing to listen. At the same time, I understand people feeling reluctant about or bored with political chat.