Creativity is important to me because
it provides people with an outlet to
convey emotions that they wouldn't be able to express otherwise.
Especially at university, there is so much
stress the builds from our studies
and creativity is a good way to get all that out and
put it in a way that you would not be able to explain through words
but you can through art.
I first got into my chosen art form about 5 years ago
when I started the University of Bath as a first year undergraduate.
I fell in love with
the idea of dancing, and the feelings associated with
dancing, and
I'm now at this position where I am completely
in love with it and it's the only thing I want to do.
So the Platform performance is a great opportunity for all the Arts Scholars to showcase their talent.
It also means that Dance Soc can show off all their pieces that
they perform throughout the year, in all the different competitions.
I've been playing in a lot of school orchestras,
orchestras outside of school,
now I am playing at Bath in the orchestra.
I'm really, really excited to perform in Platform
because I really like having the idea of
working with other art forms; with
dance, with other musicians,
having mentors as well to guide us.
It's something I've never done before.
My chosen art form is drama, I spend most of my time acting.
The performances that I'm doing in Platform
I'm really excited about actually. I'm working
on one piece with Laurence who is a musical theatre scholar.
I feel like we probably would not have
started collaborating if it wasn't for Platform,
so it's really nice to have that opportunity to work with someone with a
slightly different view. My experiences with drama
have allowed me to better understand the research that I am doing,
and my experience with the research has allowed me to better understand
and come up with new ideas for the dramatic projects
I am doing as well, so to me they are both inseparable really.
So we had a street workshop with the professional
dancer and choreographer Kim Jones
who is actually from the local area.
For me street is quite a different style, I'm not used to that and I really enjoyed
learning movement that my body isn't used to.
Kim was really inspirational in letting us
express our confidence in new ways,
and I really enjoyed that challenge. Without the Edge,
DanceSoc wouldn't be able to function. It really is at the heart of our society.
The Edge Arts Community means to me exactly what it says,
a community,
I've met so many creative people, students, professionals,
artists - going from visual artists working with
virtual reality to local film makers.
Joining the EAC and the board itself
has provided me with so much insight into the art world.
It will not only help them academically,
but it will help them grow as a person,
and discover things about themselves that they didn't know before.
the arts scholarship has really enabled me to
work to that next level, to
branch out and understand
other art forms as well,
and how it can relate to mine and how
it can enhance mine.
The University of Bath has
given me the opportunity to pursue
ballroom dancing by means of, first and foremost, having the
latin and ballroom dance society there,
without it I never would have tried ballroom dancing; and for that
I am eternally grateful. The Arts Scholarship
has enabled me to seek further tuition to improve
both my performance and technical ability.
Additionally it has allowed me to dance with live music, which
is an opportunity which not many students,
let alone professionals, get.