I’ve been working on a long term research project about authenticity in performance and I’ve just completed a co-authored paper about a study we recently completed using auto-verbatim techniques. Here is an excerpt:
Read MoreWe’ve recently received the Balance Stamp of Approval (BSOA) from Safe Communities in Madison.
Read MoreI’ve developed a course with Aikido instructor and personal trainer Barb Brown that’s all about learning to fall. This six week course will take place at Aikido of Madison in the heart of Madison’s East side from Wednesday April 2nd.
Read MoreI’m proud to be a member of the brand new choreographer’s guild
Read MoreI’m delivering my Mind Body Flow class at Blue Soul Yoga.
Read MoreThrilled that my pilot script “Blood, Water, Dust” has made it into the TOP TEN HORROR selects for ISA Table Read Austin.
Read MoreI’m so thrilled to help the US Choreographers Guild get rolling. After years of feeling alone as I shouted into the wind, it's so amazing to be part of something larger,
Read MoreThe film of 'Bodies, Borders & Belonging', which the students on my Creativity & Collaboration course helped to co-create, has been selected for the Flickfair Film Festival.
Read MoreWe’ve been working on our pitch deck for the doc series ‘How to be an Anticapitalist in the 21st Century’.
Read MoreWe are at a tipping point. The climate is in crisis, the pandemic has upended the traditional role of work in our lives, and millions of people are left wondering if democracy still works. We need to make a decision. We need to ask ourselves, as a society, do we have a responsibility to look out for all, or only ourselves?
Read MoreI was out to lunch with my sister and she mentioned this quote from Arthur Ashe. It really stuck with me. Because so often we jump ahead of ourselves, or try and do something without the necessary resources, or we’re hard on ourselves when we are unable to save or change the entire world.
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Tip #2
Challenge perfectionism
For all of you perfectionists out there, this is a really useful tip. We often pressure ourselves to do great, or to be the greatest. But this is a pretty high pedestal to fall from. Instead, when we practice consistently, without worrying about being perfect, we get good at being consistent with our practice. And this is a much more sustainable way to make progress. Whether you’re building a new creative habit, trying to lose weight, improve your fitness or write that novel., this principle applies.
When you look down on a landscape from the window of an airplane, it’s often unrecognizable. But as you descend, those abstract patterns become ordinary things: trees, houses, rivers, fields. When you are stuck, a change in perspective often leads to inspiration .
Read MoreCongratulations to Litza Bixler, the International Screenwriters' Association Fellow to the 2020 October Narrative Lab. . The team at ISA had this to say about the project: "There is a voice here that we really responded to, sort of like a westerner’s take on a Miyazaki film. It’s whimsical, clever while still being emotional and approachable." We thank the team at ISA for their continued support.
