Thoughts and Ideas

Musing

Communication. When do you offer a response or opinion, when do you stay silent? Can you offer your opinion through movement? Do you already, subconsciously? What is silence vs ignoring?

Creative

Make a movement phrase that says something, has change of focus and timing in response to your intention. "Say" (dance) it to a "conversation" partner, imaginary, artificial, or real. Improv the rest of the conversation including listening and responding. Vary the "conversation's" emotional tone. Explore the emotional and physical differences in responding, listening, silence, absence, and ignoring through movement and body language. Reflect. Discuss.

Escape and Inspiration

• Revisit Exit 12's "Moved by War" in honor of Memorial Day. https://vimeo.com/312834658

• Explore a festival. Fresh Meat Productions has an upcoming 20th anniversary season, all online: https://freshmeatproductions.org/20th-anniversary-fresh-meat-festival/. It is a festival of queer and transgender performance which this year commissioned 20 choreographers from around the country.

• Expand your awareness through the Personal Safety for Dance International Working Group's website: https://www.personalsafetyfordance.com/. It's a group working to raise awareness prevention of abuse in dance environments.

• Head to Balloon Fiesta Park tonight with a carload for the last outdoor performance by Robert Mirabel and Festival Ballet of Albuquerque. May 30 - Taos Pueblo Musician Robert Mirabel with band, Festival Ballet's Memoir Chaco, followed by a filmed version of Sacred Journeys II. Visit holdmytickets.com and find this event and many others

• Invite a few people to a night of old fashioned games in a park; board games, net games, playground games. Laugh and relax with no agenda.

• Dust off an unused set of synapses. Make something: cook, sew, paint, story tell, DIY, ......