I am back in the studio! Actually, I have been for a month now, and it’s still feeling great. My injuries are about 80% healed, so I am mostly all there. delightful. Today I broke my own rule. I video taped! I wanted to share. On that note, I should come clean that I haven’t [...]
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Friends + fans! Injury has long kept me away from Open Studio, but I can see the light of recovery and will be back to my weekly sessions starting in July (after the GREs! That’s right my friends, I’m preparing to go back to school, again, this time for a PhD in Performance Studies). I [...]
Open Studio. 12.
With Arvo Pärt I realize why I have a rule about practicing without music. Music allows me to be indulgent. I dance without thinking nearly. I do compose to the music, but without continuity or the promise of performance –the creation occurs between me and the music and leaves an audience out in the cold. [...]
Open Studio. 11.
It’s a semi-open studio. I’m here and the chairs are out– but I’m also exhausted and cannot comment today. I suppose those days happen too.
Open Studio Rules
I am republishing the guidelines for my practice both to keep them fresh in mind and to bring in a new perspective through some minor amendments. Check out the original post. My art is fleeting and I am working in celebration of that. Here are the “rules” for my process: Objective Reconnect with the unique [...]
Open Studio. 10.
Dancing at home. It’s my first session at home -not in the living room as anticipated, but the office, complete with carpet and cat toys. Saturday morning and I am still in my pajamas, dancing and sweating (like crazy! no AC here) like it were an everyday thing. I am dancing for my “audience” of [...]
Open Studio. 9.
Today, I cheated. But good things came of it, so I am allowing myself one day with broken rules. I did not dance without music, but I did think of a great idea for my open studio visitors. Starting in September when I will officially invite everyone to come watch me practice, I will ask [...]
Open Studio. 8.
It’s been a long break in between Open Studios –I am returning to my weekly practice (finally) hoping it will also help to ground me through the next stage of turmoil in my life. And my session today has been peaceful and fruitful. It’s the first practice in which I’ve successfully “imagined” an audience and [...]
Open Studio. 5+6.
Delightful! Two open studios in one day! And with an audience! What a difference they make! Dancing through my nervous excitement. Trying consciously to listen to them, to “connect” and be fine –all while composing. I do not have the innocence of just doing what I love -of “just dancing.” Ten years ago this performance [...]
Open Studio. 4.
Sleepy again today. I had one really great run –but it was to music (which is against the rules). Why is it so important to practice in silence? Well, because I prefer performing in silence -largely because the energy between me and audience is so “loud” that I don’t really “hear” music during performance anyway. [...]