Thoughts and Ideas
Membership Perk: Check out the Advocacy Page of our website. Did you know there is a Community Calendar that you may use to list your virtual classes and events? Email info@abqdanceconnect.org with the pertinent information and we’ll add your event or class!
Musing
Have you heard the term "Imposter Syndrome"? Does it resonate? How do you conquer those moments when you doubt yourself, when you have started a new project and have that moment of panic, "who do I think I am", "what have I started! I can't..." and begin to lose faith in yourself?
A proposal: Try a Power Wall, a term for an example/reminder used as a wall to squash those thoughts. Use a memory of when you conquered a moment in the past and completed something of which you are proud. Keep this experience handy, place a token reminder on a wall or in an imaginary wall in your mind to return to again and again to say, 'you see, I have done it before, I trust myself."
Creative Experiment
Dealing with obstacles. Options: resist, adapt using the obstacle, change the goal. Create a short movement phrase that starts at point A with a destination of point B. Place a physical obstacle in your path. Work with the different options in dealing with the obstacle. Reflect afterward. What did you discover from each encounter?
Quote: “There is a difference in a work's beginning and starting to work." Twyla Tharp
Escape and Inspiration
Inspiration in unlikely places: Look over "We Are Water Protectors" a children's illustrated book winning the Caldecott award for the first time by a Native American artist Michaela Goade, It can be found in the local library and read aloud on YouTube. The artwork may evoke movement and dance formations with strong imagery relating to water and the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Love yourself and another with a valentine treat from a local business like The Chocolate Dude, The Chocolate Cartel, or further west, A Heavenly Taste Cakery, M'Tucci's or ABQ Sweet Spot.
Enjoy the changing weather. Take your movement into the sun.
Check out a trailer for ABT's Studio Company's Winter Festival, happening this week to see if you'd like to tune in Feb. 9-10 at 5pm. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_RwH3YGsbo
