Hi everyone,
I plan on doing my first project on a community that I used to belong to but am no longer a part of. This community is the dance community, mainly because of the significant amount of time I spent as a part of it. I began dancing when I was three and did not stop for 14 years. The dance community is incredibly strong and those who are in it spend 6 days a week together for about four hours. Not only that, but within my specific community, there were no males involved, which made the bond grow much stronger.
However, within this community, there was a tipping point when the dancers reached about age thirteen. This is the time when company auditions began and the girls behavior toward one another drastically changed based on the company to which they were accepted. It also made the competition between the girls a much bigger trend.
Hopefully I can relate my dance community to the larger national dance communities to strengthen my narrative
This sounds great, Marie! I do not know if you intend on focusing on your particular group of dancers or on the dance community at large, but I think you would be able to create a more personal narrative by focusing on your particular dancing community.
ReplyDeleteYou sound like you have a good example of a tipping point if many dancers changed their behavior around the age of 13. You may want to describe the behvior change and explore why this happened. I do think that relating your personal dance community to the larger national one could strengthen your narrative, but I also think focusing on your individual community could stand alone. What do others think?
Hi Miss Lee,
ReplyDeleteI definitely think that my particular dancing community would be strong enough to focus on because I could also incorporate how the girls parents were an extremely influence and the way in which the community was affected by their constant need to dominate.
However, if I focus on my individual community, what type of sources should I include? I was originally thinking of including a few sources that show that almost all dance communities are similar in the relationships and strength of competition.
This is a great topic. That is so true about the competitiveness heightening after a certain age. It's unfortunate but the truth. If you have one you should put in a personal account of how tensions broke up friendships. Just as an example. But also be sure to talk about the friendships and bonds you made before that point if you're to do that. I feel like that would make your writing a lot stronger and more relatable to more people.
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