Inspired

I am so utterly inspired by my choreography class. Today we spent a good 20 minutes improvising to five different songs, and created our own percussive music in the middle of it. It was amazing to see everyone's progress from the start of the improv to the end. We created stories that were completely unexpected, but after thinking about it it made complete sense that those are the stories we would come up with. I believe that we create based on what we know, and the issues that we are dealing with. Creativity has an incredible ability to dig itself deep down into people's hearts and minds and that's exactly what happened today.

It was beautiful to see the unification of the group and the trust that we had for one another. We are an ensemble and it's so special. This will be the fourth year our ensemble is working together and the time we have together is precious. Moments like this remind me how lucky I am to have people I can create with and feel free to explore with. It made me want to explore more. I didn't want class to be over. Even though some of the stories we were telling were heavy, I felt fantastic afterwards. I felt renewed and ready to try again. I wanted to try again.

I have so many choreographic ideas in my head. I always have. When trying to think of what I want to do for my final project for this class I thought I was going to take one of my pre-existing ideas and make it come to life. But now I'm thinking that I just want to improvise for days and come up with something inspired by that. I could've stayed in that dance studio for hours creating piece after piece based on what I had discovered in my exploration. I don't want to set limitations on myself. I wanna see how far I can go. I wanna reach the end of what I can do and then go further. See what happens.

It truly is incredible what people can do when they give themselves the freedom to not be inhibited, or shy, scared, nervous, self conscious, or afraid.

Sometimes I Draw

I'm an inspired person. Meaning, I get inspired easily and if I don't follow through on my inspirations they nag at me until I do it. Sometimes I get inspired to draw. Drawing isn't something I consider myself particularly good at. I wouldn't consider myself a visual artist. But it isn't something I'm necessarily bad at either. It gives me joy, releases stress, and is therapeutic. I wanted to share some of my drawings on here, starting with my most recent one, which I did about twenty minutes ago.

My stuff always has some sort of quote incorporated into it. I think words and quotes can be very powerful. One of my favorite artists right now is Story People. I connect very easily with their stuff.