Bartenieff choreography

Hip Hop at the Lincoln Center Outdoor Festival

Saturday, September 4, 2010

Two days


Tomorrow morning we board Megabus to go for Sunday and Monday in New York.  On Tuesday I have to be in my classroom to setup and begin the school year.  But for the present, I will have a last overnight in New York.  Other weekends and holidays will be scheduled, so that I can take a class, but this is really the weekend that will launch me into the year.  I feel ready and full of confidence for both, and I greet each day with a renewed sense of wonder and gratitude.
Above is a video from the hip hop event at Lincoln Center Outdoor Festival this summer.  It inspired me.  I hope it inspires you.
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Friday, September 3, 2010

New year

Rendering of human brain.Image via Wikipedia



Wednesday and Thursday marked the beginning of the new academic year for teachers from the Curley K-8 school, which met for its professional development.  


As we move into the first part of the year, I am thinking on a very deep level about how I will use the monies that are alloted to me for the Teachers As Artists fellowship project.  It has me the most bewildered because of the limitless possibilities I see available.  I need a good editor.


This weekend when we go to New York, I plan use my newly ignited creative imagery, as I go to sleep at night, asking my dreams to guide me.  I have tapped again that deep inner root allowing anyone to live within their creative powers more fully.  It is an intuitive sense that I used once, not so long ago. 


In recent years,  however, it seemed a fickle muse over which I had no power.  By the time my fellowship ended, this creative power seemed to be within my grasp again.  Now I need only to continue the practice of thinking, imagining, dreaming and scaffold it with those "left-brained" functions:  plan, organize and execute.


It is a myth that artist are disorganized beings, flying by the seat of the pants.  We just have a different pathway into the center of the problem solving process.


Cheers to the pathway I have begun.




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