Mentorship. It is everything. It is being asked, not asking. Answering, not questioning. Being led, not leading. It is critical, necessary, and too often neglected. Simply by having the tables turned and having to answer questions instead of formulate them, things become so much clearer. All of the floating thoughts and disparate musings must find a place …
Work Night Prep: Residency Reflections
Everyday we have the opportunity to make work. We get to dance and choreograph. But like any job and any profession, some days feel more like work than others. Then, there are those days that feel like a dream. This residency? It has been one dreamy day after another. I came in to the process hoping to learn how …
SFCD: Week 8
What happens when things don't go as planned? What happens when your skills come up short? What happens if you can't do the things you once could? Even with the best intentions and clear goals, the path is not straight. Building is not easy. Decisions must be made. It's paralysis by infinite possibilities. Death by thinking. …
SFCD: Week 7
The question is, how do you get where you want to go? I could live forever in the land of building. Building phrases, wrecking phrases, blowing them up and reworking them. But if we lived in that part of the process forever, we'd never make any substantive work. This week we started to put together …