Bringing out their Best: for Dance, Drama & Music Teachers

Whether we teach dance, drama or music, motor learning is an integral part in performance achievement. Aside from class, there's an expectation our students will work on their performance skills in their own time and for this, they need to be motivated.

Goal setting, lies at the heart of how a student initiates, sustains and evaluates their progress. Building impetus and drive to continually do better.
So today’s study is looking at the role of achievement goals for people learning to juggle in their spare time. Not in class, not under the supervision of someone else, but how goals work to motivate practice and create a cycle of improvement....or not.
https://performingartspd.com/effective-goal-setting/

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One of the ways professional performing artists and elite athletes maintain strong performances is by consistently using a pattern of thoughts and behaviours prior to performance that assist them to get in their Performance Mindset be that an Onstage Persona or a Peak Performance version of themselves.

In this episode Sarah explores the research uncovering what professional performing artists do to get into a peak performance mindset for consistently strong performances.
The complete episode transcription can be found at https://performingartspd.com/blog/

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Overthinking? Have you ever been concentrating so hard on the mechanics of a task that your body was literally tripping over itself and completely uncooperative? Have you also found as you grew in accomplishment and performance experience that this problem was less common?

Today’s episode looks at the difference between amateurs susceptibility to overthinking versus professionals who do it much more rarely.

Find out more at https://performingartspd.com/blog/overthinking/

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Do we really need to demonstrate? This 2018 dance study trials movement vs instruction. To answer “how necessary are visual demonstrations to embed performance skills”. Enjoy!

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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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