Fine Art Courses
Dance Company 7-8
9th-12 grade
My Goal
The main goal for my Capstone Project is that I am able showcase my skills and knowledge of dance that I have obtained throughout my CTE experience. The project allows me to have free range when it comes to creativity, allowing artistic challenge and problem solving. Through this project, I want to show my ability to choreograph a piece, execute it and have it read well to an audience. Also it provides me with great closure in this part of my life during high school and lets me reflect how much I have grown as an artist being in this CTE course. This capstone showcases my artistic journey and prepares me for what is to come in the future.
Artistic Statement
Dance has been apart of my life in many ways, as for 16 of the 18 years of my life dance has always been an outlet for my creativity. I spend countless nights in a dance studio where I focus on technique and take various classes regarding my movement quality. After so many classes and many tired nights I keep in mind that it pays off in the end. I know with my training it has influenced how I composed this project either if I was feeling down or feeling inspired dance was and is my safe place to try new things and test my limits, which I showed in my dance. I learned that no mater how I was feeling I can take a moment of my life and connect and build off it into a piece of art . Through this art seal process I could reflect my love of dance through movement where the most rewarding part is through knowing I am doing what I love.
Having done the dance program all throughout high school, the dance program has taught me many skills helping me in ways regarding my education. With dance I have learned time management, discipline , and collaboration skills which has impacted my education in school by making use of these skills. which helps me grow academically but also socially. Challenges such as maintaining good grades and staying on top of school work has been a skill I could balance when the dance program allows me to improve my mind's creativity. I am lucky to say that I was able to have this experience to challenge me in ways that I am able to use in my other classes. When coming to a new school I felt more confident in my other classes knowing that there was always a group of individuals who I could relate to. In this CTE course we build in collaboration work ethic and drive, skills that I am able to use in my other classes and later on in life.
My experience, with this being my senior year project, I can relate toward all the memories I made through dancing in high school. Having choreographed this piece, the beauty of that I am able to express how I am feeling without speaking and strictly though my actions I reflect real world actions speak louder than words . My movements within my piece relates how life can be stagnant at times then all of a sudden chaotic by displaying the slow and fast tempos of the music. With senior year coming to an end I can broadcast these emotions through my moments when performing. Relating to the music throught my expirences as a dancer has driven my movement when I choreographed.
If I could change anything during my art design in my CTE experience, it would be to fully explore and commit to my creative ideas. I often found myself second guessing my initial ideas where I would stop my train of thought. I was telling myself that move doesn't flow well, what was that move again where I wish I would have filmed myself improving because I notice I get the best outcome of movement when I don't overthink. I would find different avenues for my creativity, either stepping out of my comfort zones to expirence different ways of moving . Overall I would not change a thing to my final product because I believe it accuratly demonstrates what I have learned as a dancer in this CTE program.
As what I would do differently I would take more time to the project by reflecting my moment quality effect I have while performing my piece. I would plan to focus on a more in depth examination of some of the emotional and the physical features such as my facial expressions to take this piece to the next level. As I feel I am lacking in the facial quality if I performed this at more showcases that would help improve the peformance quality. I would also want to try different choreographic techniques for depth and complexity. I would also receive feedback sooner from other dancers and choreographers on the project to helprefine my work. If I could let it unfold a bit and tighten it up, the end result would be so much better and fully developed like I had planned from the start.