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AM Skype chat

We talked about the reflective essays and about research topics. It emerged that it is really useful to just explain what you are doing to other people. We took the challenge of not first contextualising our own research project/ideas in what someone else has said but jumping in at the deep-end and explaining them from scratch.

We explained our ideas, either the idea of the research inquiry you are proposing in Module Two or the Research process and knowing in Module Three, (we did not have any Module Ones in the conversation). Then we took in turns to feedback what we had heard the person saying and what we wondered. I think just talking to people about what you are doing is really useful. While explaining it to people informally you hear yourself saying things that you maybe had not realised you thought. Or things you don’t agree with and had not realised you did not yet know how to articulate so they slipped back into language that you don’t really agree with.

Alanna  http://sustainablerisktaking.blogspot.com  also suggested as you blog about ideas this too is a way to look at what you are thinking. She suggested blogging at this point in the term to look at your own positioning. As you have been working across the Module your positioning may well have shifted and you may not have articulated the change. Your blog and your preparation for your reflective essay might be places where you can visit this.

April (April please write you Blog address in comments below)  talked about the Module Three inquiry and in talking we discussed letting go of binaries / polar structures. Even though the theory you encounter might be clear and resonate, that does not mean you have to adopt the articulation of that theory as the only way to engage with the ideas within it. Of course the articulation of the theory is the idea since communication of thought is held prisoner in the language used to express it. (At times you would loose the ‘meaningful’ or sound as if you were cherry-picking with the idea if you loose the structures and articulation of the theory from the theorised who introduced it to you). But it is important as you work with a theory that you notice how it is positioned and how that communication might be imposing a shift on your articulation of the idea. April is posting about remembering transformation can be an alternative articulate for many ideas that when presented imply binaries.

(Note: that witnessing of moving away from your own Professional articulation/structure for communication is what the artefact is addressing.)

Helen  http://www.helenkindred.blogspot.com/2016/05/plurality-of-meaning.html  is posting on remembering pluralities of meaning. This is so important in our work as dance scholars because we are forging the ideas and language of the somatic and have check we do not loose ourselves in the pinning down, measuring, hunt for one certainty that is so counter to fluidity of movement.