For many dancers, September will spell an exciting time. Following a summer of furthering your dance learning, be it on a summer school, taking drop-in classes or working on particular parts of your technique, for many September will mean beginning a course in purely dance. This could be as part of your final studies at school, or even a brand new timetable at college or a degree course at university.
A new course will mean lots of hard work and dedication. The course could be focused on dance technique, academic study, dance teaching, choreography, performance, or even a combination of them all. Anything new can be daunting and even overwhelming, but tutors are there to support your learning, and encourage you to enhance this as much as you can. Furthering your dance learning beyond the study can give a new appreciation of dance, its history, and where it might be going in the future, as well as how your dance generation might contribute to the development of that.
While you are studying make sure you continue to experience new dance work, to inform your studies. Every asset of the course can be applied to your learning in some way, be it by inspiring you to push your performance further, noting a new way of dancing a step or observing choreography that is missing just one element which you can identify. Seeing new dance by Jew dance artists will keep inspiring you and your ways of working. Large companies performing well-known repertory will do this too, adding context to your historical studies and providing new ways of thinking about dance.
Exploring dance and the many avenues of study surrounding it is ultimately fulfilling. If your aim is to eventually teach dance, your views and knowledge of dance which is constantly evolving will inform your practice and in turn inspire your students. Ensure you keep up with current dance practices, techniques and terminology, learning about both the old and new to aid your work.