{"id":4625,"date":"2015-08-17T10:44:45","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T15:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/?p=4625"},"modified":"2015-08-18T07:42:40","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T12:42:40","slug":"a-ballerinas-take-on-her-technically-demanding-craft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/2015\/08\/17\/a-ballerinas-take-on-her-technically-demanding-craft\/","title":{"rendered":"A Ballerina&#8217;s Take on Her Technically Demanding Craft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Technical writing comes in many forms, dance being one of them. There, good technical writing \u2013 instruction in ballet moves, for example \u2013 can be life-changing. Beth Bluett de Baudistel, a long-time Australian ballerina and dance teacher, reminisces about her international career in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au\/news\/taking-back-centre-stage\/2687335\/\">the Sunshine Coast Daily<\/a> in Queensland.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/imgres-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/imgres-11.jpg\" alt=\"imgres-1\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4631\" \/><\/a>As an 18-year-old ballet soloist, Beth would would write evenings in her diary, half a world away from her family, &#8220;all the amazing technical concepts I had been learning. Little did I know that this would be the foundation of writing a dance curriculum like no other.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Exercises based on how a student could sense the centrelink of the body from quite a young age &#8211; it had never been documented.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Her dance curriculum was rated a success &#8220;because it is giving the world of dance a way to train with excellence without the propensity to injury that other methods have.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Innovative ideas come in seed form, and seeds have to be nurtured to grow,&#8221; Beth says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I like the phrase &#8216;do not discount small beginnings&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you feel it is worthwhile, keep at it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These are words befitting the experience of technical writers in all sorts of arenas. They&#8217;re born of experience and close attention to detail with the enthusiasm of a participant observer who wants to share with others how to do something challenging safely.<\/p>\n<p>Beth Bluett de Baudistel reminds us that conveying any complex information can properly be called technical writing if it is done to teach and inform. \u2013 <em>Doug Bedell<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technical writing comes in many forms, dance being one of them. There, good technical writing \u2013 instruction in ballet moves, for example \u2013 can be life-changing. Beth Bluett de Baudistel, a long-time Australian ballerina and dance teacher, reminisces about her international career in the Sunshine Coast Daily in Queensland. As an 18-year-old ballet soloist, Beth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-the-writing-life"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4625"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4625"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4635,"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4625\/revisions\/4635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}