{"id":776,"date":"2010-10-29T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elementally.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/?p=776"},"modified":"2010-10-29T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T09:30:00","slug":"presenting-for-dancers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/presenting-for-dancers\/","title":{"rendered":"Presenting for dancers&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago I had the chance to do a two hour workshop for dance students at Gateshead College &#8211; and loved it. \u00c2\u00a0The slide deck I used was obviously designed for the day and the video below is very (very!) heavily edited.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the slides were up there for just a few seconds and others were there for quite some time while we talked about things. Sadly, in this video, all the slides are up for 10 seconds (which makes some of them boring, I&#8217;m afraid). \u00c2\u00a0Some of them are also designed to be examples of the good, the bad and the ugly &#8211; so if you see something that makes you go &#8220;Eh?&#8221; don&#8217;t panic!<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xflMCzCrmCg\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xflMCzCrmCg\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>One of the main themes of the workshop was the difference between performing for an audience and performing for the sake of the material, if you see what I mean. \u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;d be interested in people&#8217;s reactions to the slides as they are &#8211; which bits work as a &#8216;stand alone&#8217;, for example, outside of the context of a two hour, interactive workshop&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p>I should add a thank-you here to Nancy Duarte because one of the quotes in the slide deck I&#8217;d not come across before until I read her latest book &#8211; cheers Nancy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago I had the chance to do a two hour workshop for dance students at Gateshead College &#8211; and loved it. \u00c2\u00a0The slide deck I used was obviously designed for the day and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-personal-blog-related","category-presentation-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}