Petra Pecek | 2015 –

WORKPLAN | 2015 September

1. Semester evaluation 

After this semester I am quite satisfied with my work. For me it is a biggest motivation to see and feel my body changing in a good way, which allows me to use  it in dance. 

I feel a big difference in ballet class. At the beginning I had some hard times to adapt to this class, but now my body started to accept it and I am enjoying it. I feel and I understand the mechanism of the moment, which I was not thinking about it before. I need to work on the balance (my upper back is leaned back), right position of shoulders, strength, rotation and stabilisation of the feet and legs, and many other things. 

I am also happy about improvisation and creative improvement. I am becoming more confident in both of it. 

The thing I am working on and want to improve it is that sometimes, I lost the concentration in the morning classes for a short time. I think it is because I have never danced in the mornings but usually on evenings. I see that if I am not 100% at the class, or not thinking about the corrections all the time, I can not improve.

I need to work on Folk dance, because the position and how you should hold the body is very different. 

The most good feeling is (I will try to describe it) that dance is really becoming a part of me. With this I mean, that I feel able to do many different qualities or styles, without frustrations. It is also the change in the thinking, because I used to analyse a lot, but now I am learning how to free my mind for the good of dance. 

What I also learned in this semester is that I am and should be the biggest motivator for myself. I realised this is very important. 

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SUMMARY | 2015 December 

1. Semester evaluation 

After this semester I am quite satisfied with my work. For me it is a biggest motivation to see and feel my body changing in a good way, which allows me to use  it in dance. 

I feel a big difference in ballet class. At the beginning I had some hard times to adapt to this class, but now my body started to accept it and I am enjoying it. I feel and I understand the mechanism of the moment, which I was not thinking about it before. I need to work on the balance (my upper back is leaned back), right position of shoulders, strength, rotation and stabilisation of the feet and legs, and many other things. 

I am also happy about improvisation and creative improvement. I am becoming more confident in both of it. 

The thing I am working on and want to improve it is that sometimes, I lost the concentration in the morning classes for a short time. I think it is because I have never danced in the mornings but usually on evenings. I see that if I am not 100% at the class, or not thinking about the corrections all the time, I can not improve.

I need to work on Folk dance, because the position and how you should hold the body is very different. 

The most good feeling is (I will try to describe it) that dance is really becoming a part of me. With this I mean, that I feel able to do many different qualities or styles, without frustrations. It is also the change in the thinking, because I used to analyse a lot, but now I am learning how to free my mind for the good of dance. 

What I also learned in this semester is that I am and should be the biggest motivator for myself. I realised this is very important. 

TEACHERS' EVALUATIONS | 2015 December

Lőrinc Katalin: you have quite difficult back-structure for this technique (stiff lower-back), but you are managing this problem with concentration, with searching for the right path. So your movements are clean and punctual. But you could try to have more „punch”, more impulses, creating some emotional impact, some tension. I can see, that you have a rather soft, calm temperament, but this technique could help you to bring other colors out of your personality.

Hód Adrienn: your skills is a good basis, you use it very well and go further curiously. You are reliable and steady and you take advantage of it. You were confidently into interesting and versatile forms of movements and states.

Szonda Fanni: I think it was a good semester. But I would be glad if we could learn more pieces during the next semester. I know that actually everything is new for you, but now you already get to know this school. It is really good to work with you and I am waiting for January too… J

Marco Torrice: she is able to cultivate a light concentration, which allowed her to take a good dimension in the work I was proposing.
She looked quite at easy in exploring her body weight as a motor of movement.
Her presence started to come out in the last classes. I could see her body expanding a bit more out of the periphery and the eyes. Her facial expression was lightly joyful, and it felt quite corresponding to the way she was moving.
I would still encourage her to pay more attention on movement definition, without scarifies the use momentum.

WORKPLAN | 2016 January

In second period of my first year I will work on: 

  • my shoulder position especially on ballet classes (my “natural” position is leaned forward)
  • tonning the body and connecting legs and torso more
  • get more articulated feet
  • get more dynamic feet and get more muscles
  • learn more pieces at piano class and practice it more
  • be succesful at HB and do many projects 
  • practice more folkdance, be more with music, understant it and dance it
  • be constant with work, I wish without many ups and downs

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SUMMARY | 2016 June 

This period was a long one for me. I received many information and I sense a difference of how I understand dance. Before I imagined  dance as something out of my body, something that I want to achieve. Now I realize that it is also about “swallowing” the movement and feel it inside your body. This is a new perception and feeling for me. I can use this thing as a tool or mechanic of movement. I think it makes movement more rich, dynamic and interesting.

About my cerativity and Proxemika I realized that somehow I felt that during the year I was bussy enough and had a lot of projects to work on, but at the end  I think I could do more. It is a motivation for the next yer to be involved more, to create more and to be more curious.

The process was interesting for me and I learned a lot about myself in relation to others, my presence, awareness.

I am quite satifiedwith my technical training. Good example was on the last classes with Marco when we were doing the same exercises as in Semptember and January, when I couldn’t do them. The pervious week I had no problem with the same exercises. Also I feel my body more stable and soft at the same time, but I could dare to work with my weight and stronger balance more. I have a lot to do in contact dance also working with weight more.  I feel a hudge diference in my body at the ballet class. Comparing with first period of ballet, I fell less tension in my body and that allows me to go further with technique. It is a good feeling when you see your body adapting and changing.

Also I fell the diference in folk classes and piano lessions. I can see that I learned to hear the rhythm, to understand the music. I have an idea what folk dance is it about and I learned a basic steps and I fell ready to explore it further.

During the year I find individual workout really useful and importand and I am happy that I found peace in myself to have time to work on myself and use every minute of it. Before it was hard for me to concentrate, to be alone in the studio where nobody tells you what to do.

I fell happy about this year and motivated for the next. I realized you can never imagine how is to study dance unless you are doing it. I have things in my mind to work on and to correct in next year.

TEACHERS' EVALUATIONS | 2016 June

Kováts Tibor: Unfortunately Petra could have improved much more comparing to her inner potentials, but I have already warned her about it. Mostly those mistakes were appearing that I had mentioned in the previous evaluation, too. She must become much stricter and way more consistent for the sake of improving. She must understand that motivation and diligence are not enough, if there are no results produced. By accepting this, her knowledge will rapidly increase. Thanks to her work!
About the group: In the second semester I managed to get know the personalities, strenghts and weaknesses of the students. Their professional performance was not well balanced, in other words their accomplishments varied a lot. Only a few of them is capable to acquire all what they were taught, therefore the exercises and the steps have to be repeated again and again. We carried out much less than I had planned to. The group is split into two parts: some students improved permanently and consistently, while the others did not. The latter mentioned ones obstructed those who were motivated and focused, because we could not dictate the same tempo for all; in contrary, we had to re-start and always repeat the same class materials.

Cseri Péter: She is very-very attentive, and works very well; she has a good base to develop.

Horváth Nóri és Mészáros Máté: Improve your dynamic and keep working on your body. This is gonna help you to open your participation in the classes. Keep working.

Szemessy Kinga: Excellent

You were one of the two, who sent me the essay homework for supervision that makes me think that you really care for all the things you give your name to. You were really attentive when I was describing the tasks for this homework, thus all paragraphs show a clear intention, meaning to write either a description or a personal opinion or a stream of questions. Otherwise I would encourage you to use the Microsoft Office’s English auto-correction, therefore you can avoid misspelling words. Your writing is easy to read, though it contains a variety of complex phrases and thoughts as well. If I had not seen this performance, your writing would have made me book a ticket for.

I think during the first part of the semester you had been a bit more shy or just in a “state of tasting the class”, but then all of a sudden you started volunteeringly engaging in all the common conversations we had. In you I met with a very diligent and ambitious student who should not keep her precise observations only for herself – fortunately the exam proved that you are on the way of opening rather than to closing back. Keep going on, nice work! We profit from your good vibes.

Sessi Krisztina: Petra, your body is very intelligent, as I could have seen it from the homeworks. You can use different dinamics and ways to dance and to be more varied, however for you the big jumps are hard. I feel you try to keep the same level of working. You also have to work on  the  rythm. Keep on working like this .

Szonda Fanni: I enjoy working with you because you always came prepared to the classes and on the piano lessons you could easily and quickly do what I asked you to do. Good to see that feel more comfortable playing on the keyboard and you can read the scores easier. You should work more on your technique (mainly on your fingering – sometimes it was really funny what you did…)Thank you for your work throughout the year! ou know that I am so proud of you! You have decided at the beginning of the year that you will learn to play the piano and now you can play the piano very well. I am happy to see how much you love playing the piano. And it is good to see that you work more on the piece after you have learned all the notes. Now this is art. I really like that you let your music breathe by giving time of your playing the piano throughout the piece.

WORKPLAN | 2016 September

– After summer I want to get back in shape

– In this semester I want to correct all the mistakes (bad balance, shoulders, basic position, too much unecessary movement) at the ballet class. I think it is necessary for me in order to improve and develop.

– Have a successful creative work. Participate in others project and create my own. Also, I have a wish to participate or create research presentation. I did only one research project.

– Be 100% with my head in school, use every minute to improve, develop and create. I want to be able that during the school time I leave my personal life in the changing room, and just work on the things I need to. Last year I felt sometimes that I was with my head already somewhere else, but this year I already know the system of school, so I want to be there every moment with no feeling that I need to rush.

– In general I want to have a similar year to previous one. Without sickness, big problems, injuries etc. I want to be even more productive in all aspects of the school.

– Practice more piano and folk dance in my free time and individual time. Last year I was nervous at the concert, when I was playing piano. If I get more experience I think I will enjoy it, otherwise I lose the rhythm, melody etc.

– I am interested in who am I as a dancer. What I am good at, what I like, what I want. I don’t expect to find an answer this semester but to work on it and develop a good answer.

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SUMMARY | 2016 December

As I look back to this first half a year period I think about joy, happiness and hard work. This two periods I have been pretty busy with creative process, I had a lot of rehearsals and I noticed that I function better if I keep myself busy like that. I am happy that I get rid of this state of mind when you are somewhere else with the head, not 100% on the school. I can say I kept a constant level of concentration through the whole two periods, which allowed me quite a successful work for my opinion. Somehow atmosphere on the school this year is much more positive for me, I think in general everybody is more productive. I feel a lot of energy in myself, which somehow kept me going from one day to another. For me, this period was like there is no time, no transition between the days, just time for school and all the things I want to do and to think about.

For me it feels like different environment this year on school, and I can also see my psychic and mental changes.

I enjoyed classes this half a year somehow I noticed, we have more technical training, which I like. And I could balance it with a lot of creative work.

In general I think I was the most successful with concentration and level of work, being present on the school, involving myself a lot.

I look forward next periods!

TEACHERS' EVALUATIONS | 2016 December

Bakó Tamás: 
Dear Petra!
You are a very positive figure of your group! Like always you bring lot of energies to the classes, working with devotion and joy. You craft your movements with engagement and curiosity. You became more grounded and softer by now. Your motion capacity is understood in new ways. Go on with exploring the potential of anatomical and physical principles to support coming physical awareness and functionality, settling technique. Carry on!

Kováts Tibor:
Petra, szépen fejlődik. A háta, a válla előre ejtéséből fakadóan nem tökéletesen egyenes, de dolgozik rajta. Justine szindróma! A forgásai egyre bátrabbak, önfeledtek, amiből szépen alakul a mennyiségi forgás kialakulása. Ezúton is gratulálok a 4 tour-hoz! / Petra is developing well. Her back is not perfectly straight due to her forward leaning shoulders, but she has been working on it already. Justine-syndrome! Her turns are becoming more and more courageous and carefree that effects the increasing amount of turns as well. Congratulations for the 4 turns!

Cseri Péter: General notes to all 2016 autumn students and now to the individual material:
Petra! Great worker. Nice to see you try and try and mange well. Pleasure to work with you. For you too concentration is an issue when it comes to how long you need to do it. See that you remind yourself of how the class starts so once we are at higher tempo you don’t collapse.

Mészáros Máté & Horváth Nóra: You had a good energy during the classes and you were participating well. You improved compared to last year, keep up the good work. You were strong in the receiving part during the exercises, try to work also on the jumping part.

Szemessy Kinga: Generala notes: Comparing to what we are used to with and what facilities we have, this was quite an extraordinary class setting with 17 students participating. In some occasions it caused very exciting roundtable conversations unfolding how differently we perceive the same problems, while other times we could just barely keep the energies together and giving space for everyone’s ideas. However, even if in this kind of setting it is easy to disappear, in general I did not experience this attempt from the students’ side. We dived into notions and theories around “naturalness”, “freedom” and “self”, and studied about various dance practitioners who were investigating these terms in the 20th century. Except some cases, the quality of the presentations were either appropriate or high, and the essays show nice results as well. I’d call it a good start for the newcomers, and a worth-while and in-depth revisiting of materials with those we had class last semester.

Petra! I found you still a very attentive and well-behaving student, often joining to the class conversations by requesting elaboration on certain thoughts. I am unsure whether you feel being challenged enough, or receiving lots of new sources of inspiration as you had already learnt Dance History in high school. I suggest you to try detouring from the paths you have been to, and watch the videos and encounter with the theories with sort of new-born eyes. Keep questioning what interests you, why, and how you could take advantage of boring subjects, too.

About your presentation: As I see, the more nervous you are, the more enjoyable presentation you can make. Your slides were well-organized and aesthetically coherent, too, so I believe your classmates could easily follow your argumentation. However, I was a little bit disappointed realising that you neglected reading or talking about the theoretical core of the article (Isaiah Berlin’s notion on the various types of freedom) – I admit that was the though part, but I had warned you not only by accident.

Grade: Excellent

Szonda Fanni: you became better and better! Some good advice for you: when you practise you can be more effective, if you do not start always to play the piece from the begining till the end, but start with the worst or hardest part (every piece has one or more J), and build the piece step by step. And you should learn to start the piece from not just the begining, but from anywhere. It can help a lot if you find fixed times to practise too. I see that you are on a good way. Keep going! Thank you for your work!

WORKPLAN | 2017 January

For the second period of this year I wish to follow and continue my schooling as ambitious as I started.  I wish to stay envolved, motivated, I want my work to be productive, with no or as less distraction as possible.

There are particular thing I want to work on regarding technical traing, creative work, personal growth and my body.

  • keep working on my shoulder posture (I have lean forward shoulders)
  • muscles of the legs (I want to be able to have better control on my legs, be able to use stretch that I have with usage of right muscles, get higher legs)
  • transform my feet (usually I feel I am not stable enough, because I don’t put weight equally on my feet, that is why I also don’t have the healthiest shape of it)
  • create more, inspire and be inspired more
  • practice piano more!
  • Give time to your body to accept and embody things, don’t frustrate
  • Be active part of creating final production, create different things for it
  • Work on being faster. Sometimes I noticed I am being late in some frazes or folk dance, so I would like to find the right way to do things faster and not to use a lot of energy to do it
  • Work on body posture, condition, awareness (take time for this in individual work plan)

 

SUMMARY | 2017 June

This period in school was quite interesting for me. I faced with some unexpected struggles such as refused projects, and not so positive feedbacks to the work I do. I learned a lot from it and I handled it in the best way I could. I must admit I stepped back from the big production we were making trough this period. I tried to work more on myself, focus more on classes my own development more than creative work. I think it was a huge test for me what dance means to me and how to stay motivated and positive after a period like this. I did not question it even for a moment and after this period I become even stronger and more decided about myself, my dancing path. After all, I involved myself, not as much as I wished, but as much I could in this situation and I didn't present myself how I wanted. But when it came to the performance I tried to pull it out and make the best from it and I enjoyed the stage. I think it was necessary to face with these kind of moments to prepare myself for even worse moments which may come in carrier. 

I had some great moments on classes enjoying my development, discovering new potentials in movement. 

TEACHERS' EVALUATIONS | 2017 June

Szemessy Kinga: I felt and welcomed your opening up more and more. It is just a presumption, but maybe you started having an overall sense of what connects the various topics we engaged in, and, moreover, started establishing your personal relation to them, too. However, I also observed you being easily influenced by others’ (mostly your close friends’) mood and behaviour, and becoming reserved in those occasions. Don’t you feel exhausted because of transitioning between these amplitude levels of engagement? Is it similar with you at other classes? I am just wondering.

Szonda Fanni: slowly, but surely we are getting better on the piano lessons. Maybe next year you should be a bit more active and practice a bit more.

Szegedy-Maszák Zsuzsanna: Petra’s essay on Hannach Höch’s Cut with a Kitchen Knife photomontage was an impressively well-written paper. It suggests that while she paid a lot of attention in class she also has shown a personal connection with the work, and her essay reflects both curiosity and diligence. The analysis demonstrated that Petra has a good grasp of the material. I wish her well in her future artistic pursuits.

WORKPLAN | 2017 September

  • Get back in shape after a summer break
  • I am looking forward to new ballet approaches in a new group. I would like to use technical skills and apply them on my body and involve them more in contemporary. I would like to work on my feet, articulate it. Also I need to work on turn out. Work on connections in your body and connections between body and space.
  • This semester I would like to start working on my diploma.
  • Create and participate in different projects. Be inspired, work on ideas and realize them. I would like to create a dance material which I would enjoy, which would be unique and felt good to dance. As well I want to do opposite than that more acting like performances. Combine both. Also do a research project.
  • Work and learn the male part in folk dance. 
  • Use time of individual work very efficiently. Work on technical development use time to prepare for creative processes.
  • Practice piano more!

Enjoy working, be motivated and inspired

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SUMMARY | 2017 December

In this half a period, I had an opportunity to learn from great teachers, work at great, focused atmosphere at the school. As I found myself in more difficult situation, I was and I am still trying to overcome it.  I got same really good instruction, which I am and I will still continue to follow: How can you overcome the average, the “good”? Do not try to be better but different. 

I think this applies on my creative works and technical training, every aspect of my schooling on BCDA.

I observe myself I should pay more attention to work and explore more at different state which is not just routine, but make a next step, which is not just good, but different! 

For example at ballet class, I got a lot of new knowledge, and I am working on that this knowledge becomes embodied, not that I go back to the routine, to the things I already know. The same for contemporary dance training.  

After this period I feel my interest about dance is getting more focused. I am interested in set and technical material, which is challenging me, where I can find freedom, and satisfaction to not worry about the dance material itself but enjoy loosing myself in it. As well, I like to create and participate in more theatrical performances.  As well I don’t want to limit myself, my interest, rather explore more and deeper.

It was not easy for me to watch Step by Step Trafo performance, especially being there with different tasks but not dancing. It brought me back some memories from years ago when I was everything else but a dancer in dancing environment.  As I promised myself I will never go back to this state, now I understood I have all the power in my hands to change situations, to work more or to know how to control my state of mind.  

As a conclusion I would write, I am really grateful for this time which allows me to really and just focus on my education. Maybe even more as previous periods, because I know the system of school more, so I have more free capacity to focus on my growing as a dancer, as an artist. I came to the point where is hard for me even to evaluate myself, my progress, because I will never be satisfied. As long as I see progress even little things, I will carry on. 

I learned to learn from every situation, from everybody and to know how to say to myself nice and positive things but never be satisfied, always staying hungry for more.

TEACHERS' EVALUATIONS | 2017 December

Angelus Iván:

Dear Group B members!

You are a pretty heterogeneous group in age, in level of commitment, diligence, efficiency. This also means that you could learn a lot from each other being positive or negative experiences. You also have the experience of a few years: How you or your mate started continued and where this attitude led him/her until now. You all – all – have the possibility to improve or even change if necessary your attitude.

Iván

Dear Petra!

You have a few months left here. I suggest you to give up everything what you couldn't reach or not completely in two and a half years , and work MUCH HARDER on the things what you consider possible and successful. What gives you joy, happiness that is good for you. Do not do anything you do not enjoy. Or do them on a different way. Forget other's values, goals, requirements, and go for your own values and goals. The time for answering is over. Now it is your turn to ask and answer your own questions.

2017. december

Iván

Tijen Lawton:

Very good level, but feel there is sometimes a lack of enthusiasm both physically and mentally, so this seems to stop her from progressing and improving already strong qualities and searching further. I feel like maybe Petra needs to be challenged more as well as taking the initiative to challenge herself.

Researching and investigating for personal nuances and desires within the details of movement, being more creative with proposed material and possibilities can help to initiative this challenge. The body is very intelligent and by being challenged and stimulated sometimes can answer the questions we are asking. Looking forward to challenging this questioning together by sensing the details within energy.

Mészáros Máté:

mature and well formed attitude on the classes. have more impute to the material when possible

Marco Torrice:

The group worked with a lot of enthusiasm and passion, reaching a nice result and giving me a lot of inputs. I generally encourage this group to work more on the continuity of attention, both on the individual level as well as a group.

She has a pretty skilled body and she worked good in my class. I encourage her  to work as well on continuity of attention and presence, as well as on exploration of more eclectic and extreme dynamics, movement patters and amount of muscular energy used to move.

Szemessy Kinga:

This semester some of you seemed to be incredibly overloaded, while others were less – I assume this made a lot of you missing classes mostly at the end of the year. In spite of the fluctuating energy level that made it complicated to maintain the effectiveness, I believe we visited a vast amount of approaches to ”dance and translation”.

Steady attentiveness, and open attitude that has characterised you. Don't be afraid standing up and defending your opinion either – I do remember from Vienna how well and vehemently you can argue. On the top, I am happy to had the opportunity teaching you.

Szonda Fanni:

Dear Petra,

I would be curious what do you think about your work? Is it the most of what you can do or are you able to do more? Show me that in January in the piano classes.

Bakó Tamás:

Starting the last period the question might be what is left to do in the remaining time and what to do after. How do you imagine your progress during and after the school?

Questions around ideas like deepening knowledge, integrating, foreseeing possible physical and artistic developments in the future are the ones that could be a guideline of your practice.

You may still find ways to do some unlearning and re-access to physicality and embodiment, allowing new ways to be seen and to be engaged.

Continue with exploring and finding new instruments and approaches to meet your artistic purposes.

Várnagy Kristóf:

It`s hard to comment on your work because it is practically spotless. Seemingly you can do whatever you wish with ease. I say seemingly because I don`t want to take away the credit for all the actual work you did, to be in this state. Everything you do is good. I just feel that good, is not sufficient in a market that is filled with good professionals. I miss you being personally involved. To see your personal flavors, your taste, your choices.

WORKPLAN | 2018 January

WORKPLAN January – June 2018

In my last semester on the school, I want to work hard on things that interest me to somehow develop them and make a whole package. My wish is to change my working approach, I want to be efficient with the time left, use every day to develop more as a dancer, creator, artist. I need to work every day on the next level and with that I mean to be satisfied with “satisfactory” but go further. Make myself busy all the time, and challenge myself. Trust myself with all the knowledge I have! I want to move my borders, my limits with using the knowledge, informations that I have received during my schooling and I still will.

– We have quite a lot of performance possibilities this semester and I want to participate as much as possible. They all seem very interesting and challenging to me and I really look forward to start creating and working on it.

– I want to write my thesis and also do a research performative work on this topic.

– Find more time to practice piano

SUMMARY | 2018 June

Second semester of my last year of studies on BCDA was really interesting and intense. I was part of hardworking atmosphere and I enjoyed and learned a lot.

I am really thankful I had opportunity being part of Rogeszme process, which gave me a lot of opportunity to grow as a dancer and person. It brought from me solidarity, care, better awareness of myself, totally new movement quality which lead me to certain emotions, which were triggered by movements. And that is my goal for me as a dancer, which I also discovered during working on my thesis. Working with Tijen was real inspiration. I appreciate how she connected us as a group, everything what she shared with us, which is way more than just passing movements.

Beside Rogeszme I enjoyed working on Melting Pot also. It was really nice to have a lot of time and longer periods to focus on both processes.

I can say I understood better what does it take to be a performer, I enjoyed having many different things, for example: everyday classes, HBS every period, thesis work, Rogeszme and Melting Pot. I learned it takes a lot of concentration and focous, learn to mix what is good and profitable for certain pieces, and keep every detail of each piece, performance or project.

I am really grateful to be a part of this semester, that I could share moments with each individual of a group.

As it is my last summary I would like to say that these three years journey was absolutely amazing, it was very hard and beautiful, I learned a lot, I have been trough a lot and it will take some time to collect every information to rethink everything and continue my journey. I got important tools and more clear direction I want to go as a dancer/performer, but still a lot to learn and discover. After all, it is a never ending process of learning

TEACHERS' EVALUATIONS | 2018 June

Angelus Iván:
General notes to the group: Group "B" is a functioning, working group of very different individuals. Synergy is ambivalent. Sometimes excellent for almost all, sometimes harmful for almost all.
You all – may be – are more selfish and more lonely than you wish, however you are often helpful to each other. Group cohesion finds often negative or virtual goals. No matter who is the source of a (bad) idea, who follows happily, who goes with the majority and who is who thinks differently but doesn't dare to, or can not stop group processes. Having a four member company with a tattoo sign on them, inside the group is something to care in group dynamics.
I have added a short categorization: Excellent, good, weak, failed. All refer to your actual state as a prospective contemporary dance performing artist from my point of view as your teacher. Do not accept, improve.
Personal notes: We always told you that you should make much more than what you did. Now I must say this is what you could. You learned and know a lot but your body, your mind, your personality didn't become conscious tools of a performing artist. Use the knowledge you have and do not multiply fiascos, as your health will say STOP if you do not find a realistic profession. I wish it to you and those who will love you for that.

Marco Torrice:
GROUP B – Is an amazing a supportive group, full of talents, enthusiasm and joy. They are really attentive and supportive towards each other and was an extreme pleasurable and stimulant experience for me to work with them.
Personal notes: Strong and talented dancer, I had the impression that she did not challenge her self as she could. I did not quite get her path and she is often silent and sometime distracted. I would encourage her to work on her presence, not the 'performative' one but on the one that makes her be in the same time and space of the rest of the group, interacting more with questions and observations.

Szemessy Kinga: 
I felt that our work at the Thesis seminar was smooth, therefore your paper has become richer gradually throughout the months. I see you easily becoming passionate about certain questions or figures, but be aware of when it happens at the expense of deepening a research. Good luck for the future!

Tijen Lawton: 
Instinctive and earthly rigour and precision of life. Make your own understanding of it a physical memory and use this physical memory to create movement.This is how we create freedom and space by understanding the mindful training of both mind and body. A global thinking and a constant focus and limitless, instinctive, precision.The desire that carries your body and the need of ongoing challenge, confrontation and the search for intelligent thinking to nourish every layer of your emotional and physical body is motivation…this is what i feel you are searching for, this is what we have been searching for together..I really you have come a long way in understand your way of using movement vocabulary and a more intricate and instinctive way and I really appreciate your work and endurance and constant awareness in the group.Keep working on a total global thinking go your mind a body, a mindful training…generating, dynamic, abandon and control by deviating fluidity and strength. Bringing awareness to the body, awareness of the body as an articulating vessel that enables the dancer to make more choices with what they have and empowering the dancer to be able to use more of themselves, to challenge the physical intelligence, strength and movement capacity….training the brain and body together…keep moving and creating the possibilities are endless…
Search further for the contrast in ecstatic and breaking free, use your skills and ecstatic awareness to challenge your desire, which I see is defiantly there. Don’t be afraid to let go of certain skills and good habits that you can always come back to with an even further understanding of how to use them and how to confront inner desires and conflicts that make you who you are.

Mikó Dávid:
work more on dynamics

Várnagy Kristóf:
General notes to the group: I feel the group has improved in the second half of the season, and became more supportive and open for others, yet more balanced and focused in individual works.
However, I also want to address a worryingly growing trend, that you feel it is optional to visit classes, eg. increasing numbers of sleep overs, or calling sick.
Don`t abuse the system that you agreed on, cause you`ll be loosing your most valuable assets as profeesionals, your reliability, and credibility.
​Personal notes: Apparent change in attitude, and a very bright second half of the season.

Szonda Fanni:
It was nice to meet you and I wish you all the best! I liked working with you and I hope one day you can use this knowledge! Let’s keep in touch!

Bakó Tamás:
Starting the last period the question might be what is left to do in the remaining time and what to do after. How do you imagine your progress during and after the school?

Questions around ideas like deepening knowledge, integrating, foreseeing possible physical and artistic developments in the future are the ones that could be a guideline of your practice. You may still find ways to do some unlearning and re-access to physicality and embodiment, allowing new ways to be seen and to be engaged – I think you have made a move toward these areas. You are in the pursuit of meeting your artistic purposes.

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