Thoughts and Ideas 5/2
Conversation Starter
The role of Confidence, is it overrated? Should we strive to instill confidence in students? Are there perils and pitfalls? Does confidence lead to success? Does success lead to confidence? Have you seen the confident but less talented, achieve success and wondered? Have you seen the gifted artist with no confidence at the pinnacle of success and wondered, or watched them sabotage success? And what about over-confidence, where can that lead?
Explorative Exercise
Be a poser for five minutes in a dance environment; try on another personality trait, confidence, over confidence, under confidence. Can you? Try describing yourself and your talents and skills with each trait. How does it feel? Discuss.
Escape and Inspiration
Jacob's Pillow is marking the end of National Poetry Month with a new playlist of dance called Poetry in Motion https://danceinteractive.jacobspillow.org/
Take the opportunity to learn about “Kinetic Light” a companypromoting disability as a creative force and working in the disciplines of art, technology, design, and dance. Reserve tickets to the live stream of the World Premiere of “Wired” May 7th https://kineticlight.org/about
The National Hispanic Cultural Center is offering a guided tour of the “Mundos de Mestizaje” fresco in the Torreon Thursdays and Fridays at 11pm. The fresco depicts thousands of years of Hispanic culture, history, and identity. https://www.nhccnm.org/events
Check out the Guild theater in Nob Hill, a great source for art flics, fundraising flics, nostalgic flics, and special events such as late night comedy. https://www.guildcinema.com/specialevents/
For a wide variety of art inspiration, commentary to languid, see the 47th Annual Western Federation of Watercolor Societies 2022 Exhibition at Expo NM Fine Arts Building, free, opens Friday 6pm runs Th-Sun until June 4th.
I’m Curious. The Albuquerque Accordion Extravaganza is May 14th at the First Unitarian Church, 3701 Carlisle Blvd NE. To Reserve tickets call 268-3780, $20, students with ID $10
