Attempting to navigate your career during “COVID” should be worth all the RPL Credit possible!
Christina here, starting Module 2. for my first blog post of the semester, I thought I would do a de-brief of where I am with my professional practice. During Module 1 I was working in the Ballet Company of the State Opera Nova in Poland. I was on an International Tour when COVID first emerged and we sadly all got stood down from our contracts. I then managed to land a guest contract during a pandemic. I packed my bags and headed to Eastern Europe. What I intended to only be a 3-month contract ended up being nearly 12 months. To date, it was the most frustrating and questionable time in my Career. The constant battle of feeling like my livelihood was on a knife edge. Not knowing if we would make it through the week without being shut down. The anxiety of trying to maintain a performance ready condition when you are in 14 days isolation. The fight to fuel my passion, to be deemed "non-essential" to the world got me questioning “why do I do this”? Well, the plot ge
