Listening to Liz Lerman's talk gave me goosebumps !!
I was wondering how could someone's life experiences create such an impact and compel the audience to think deeper and explore various aspects of their own beahviour.
Her talk forced me to think where I am today in my professional field? what influenced me to be the person I am today? Why did I react in a way in some situation? What was bothering me when I received feedback? How could I move ahead in my professional practice?
Liz spoke how to skillfully handle every situation and understand nuances of our professional practice as an Artist, Facilitator and an audience.
She identified that our experiences are culturally framed and shaped they change according to our cultural moral and ideological views,. When we give or receive feedback we often have this discomfort as it would involve a lot of efforts to plan prepare and present and then what happens when someone receives it how they perceive it? we keep mulling over it..as dancers, we need to remember that it is not critics job to improve our choreography rather it is our responsibility to accept the ownership of learning.
When dancers get together we never talk to our peers honestly we avoid talking about each other's work why? Is it because of our 'Ego? Accepting that creativity could happen in 1000 ways and keep all our personal judgement aside we can discuss neutral questions as what is working well? This capacity to filter is one of the greatest gifts for artists as facilitators.
Critical responses are designed in fact to keep our defensive attitude down. The most important thing is that when we get stuck at a point we should ask questions to ourselves as in most of our lives suggestions ideas solutions can come from every direction without any thought or prior notice.
So....Remember to Ask Questions it could be thrilling!!
I was wondering how could someone's life experiences create such an impact and compel the audience to think deeper and explore various aspects of their own beahviour.
Her talk forced me to think where I am today in my professional field? what influenced me to be the person I am today? Why did I react in a way in some situation? What was bothering me when I received feedback? How could I move ahead in my professional practice?
Liz spoke how to skillfully handle every situation and understand nuances of our professional practice as an Artist, Facilitator and an audience.
She identified that our experiences are culturally framed and shaped they change according to our cultural moral and ideological views,. When we give or receive feedback we often have this discomfort as it would involve a lot of efforts to plan prepare and present and then what happens when someone receives it how they perceive it? we keep mulling over it..as dancers, we need to remember that it is not critics job to improve our choreography rather it is our responsibility to accept the ownership of learning.
When dancers get together we never talk to our peers honestly we avoid talking about each other's work why? Is it because of our 'Ego? Accepting that creativity could happen in 1000 ways and keep all our personal judgement aside we can discuss neutral questions as what is working well? This capacity to filter is one of the greatest gifts for artists as facilitators.
Critical responses are designed in fact to keep our defensive attitude down. The most important thing is that when we get stuck at a point we should ask questions to ourselves as in most of our lives suggestions ideas solutions can come from every direction without any thought or prior notice.
So....Remember to Ask Questions it could be thrilling!!
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