Thoughts and Ideas
Musing
Maintaining momentum. What do you do when you have a great idea but have no where to go with it? Or you toss it out into the world and nothing comes back? Try going back to the inception. From what need did your idea arise? Drill down to who you are. Why is this idea important for you? Recreate your original intention and excitement. Why is the idea important for your community, does it serve a broader purpose? Write these things down to remind you later. Work on it alone for a while, modify, reshape it. Talk about it repeatedly. Present it again with the passion that created it.
Creative Experiment
Make a movement phrase or exercise. Write it down in words or pictures. Punctuate it with multiple tools of punctuation - . , ; : ! ? - () " ', that you feel apply. Read your movement. Notice how the punctuation affects the timing and pace as you read. Explore using the concept of punctuation as you do the movement. Change the punctuation subtly or radically to change either pace or timing. Try using ALL the punctuation tools to see what you create. What about rearranging the ' movement sentence' to see the affect.
Quote: "Sometimes we have to go into fiction to understand the reality" Sofia Segovia
Escape and Inspiration
Take a road trip to the latest museum to reopen to the public, New Mexico Art Museum in Santa Fe to see the current visual art exhibit 'Word Play" and ponder applications to dance. https://nmartmuseum.org/art/exhibition-details/2020/4388/word-play
Schedule a half hour of comedy before going to bed, end your day with a smile.
Check out "What Becomes of Love" March 4th at 4pm on ABT's Facebook, choreographed and directed by Tony Award nominated Sonya Tayeh. Trailer at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTXvaXqk1qg&feature=youtu.be or read about it here https://www.abt.org/world-premiere-of-what-becomes-of-love/
Step outside first thing in the morning with a hot drink and a blanket and watch and listen to the changes as the day begins.
Learn about Indigenous movement artists from Minneapolis to Albuquerque honoring past and future through dance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUkZf7QrGDM
