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“Equipment breaks down, it is Sunday night, the stores are all closed, and the audience is arriving in an hour. You are forced to do a little bricolage, improvising some new and crazy contraption. Then you attain some of your best moments. Ordinary objects or trash suddenly become valuable working materials, and your perceptions of what you need and what you don’t need radically shift. Among the things I love so much about performing are those totally unforeseen, impossible c

Stunning Butoh choreography by Toru Shimazaki.

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Excerpt from Art Heals , The Shaman Within: Students and colleagues over the years have repeatedly asked certain questions that have...

“Play,” for artists, might reside in the exploration of materials and techniques; the initiating of imaginative collaborations; the pursuit of seemingly absurd ideas, or the bringing together of unexpected combinations . Play is not simply an open-ended recreational activity for artists. Play can reveal new possibilities and be a powerful antidote to pressures of perfectionism. Stephen Nachmanovitch

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I didn’t know it was possible to dance that fast and not break anything. Amazing!

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Project sponsors typically have little time or patience to work through the chaos inherent to creating something new. We’ve all heard of...

Dancer and choreographer Bobby Banas, who lived to be 90 years old, had a long, successful career in theatre and film. That includes...

A breathtaking excerpt from “Le Parc,” the ballet created for the Opéra de Paris in 1994 by French choreographer Angelin Preljocaj . ◊...

Let Go. Relax. Supported. Weightless. Happy.

All image credits: Gina Greenlee collages, paint, ink pen It is the unpredictability of new ideas bumping into one another that creates...

“9. Begin Anywhere. John Cage tells us that not knowing where to begin is a common form of paralysis. His advice: begin anywhere.” ...

Image credit: Beehive Productions “Chaordic” represents the interplay of chaos and order. Chaos characterizes unpredictability,...