Thoughts and Ideas
Musing
When are you procrastinating vs letting the mind work in the background, synthesizing for readiness? First draft, initial instinct. Final draft, final choice. How often is the first impulse the best? Talk it out.
Creative Experiment
Pick one or more of the following. 1. Pick a topic on which you have surface knowledge. Make a movement phrase based on this topic or write a story, essay, paragraph. Take a few days and converse about the topic with others, read about it, collect a deeper understanding, then revisit your movement or written effort and make a next draft. 2. Pick a topic you have deep knowledge about. Repeat the exercise. 3. Pick a topic you have surface knowledge about. Make a deadline for a movement or writing on the topic. Don't do anything until one hour before the deadline. Then go with your first impulse. Choreograph/write. Compare initial attempts, final works, and the feelings frustrations or satisfactions involved with each exercise.
Escape and Inspiration
Take a field trip, seek out art as inspiration; Check out the newly opened headquarters for Bernalillo's public art collection at 415 Silver SW called Bernalillo County @ Alvarado Square and get a glimpse of New Mexico's artistic history. Ride the glass elevator 8 floors to see the cityscape and the art in the lobby of each floor. Open 8-5 M-F.
Go a bit farther, step into the studios of a number of artists in the Placitas Studio Tour Saturday and Sunday PlacitasStudioTour.com
Investigate "the worlds first and only Heavy Metal Mariachi band" Wednesday Aug. 25th at Sister, 407 Central NW, doors open at 7pm. https://www.visitalbuquerque.org/event/metalachi/48307/
Or, the New Mexico Shakespeare Festival begins this week with Hamlet and Twelfth Night TH-SUN, Free, New Mexico Veterans Memorial Park,1100 Louisiana Blvd SE 7:30pm https://www.newmexicoshakespearefest.org/2021-shows
