Today I had an opportunity to share some knowledge I’ve learnt over the last couple of years, about critical feedback. Julia, Angela and I thought it might be good to show some of the ideas we have been working on over the last week. I suggested that maybe we could use some of Liz Lerman’s critical feed back as a base; neither of them had heard of her and found the process very useful and interesting. I think the three of us walked out of that showing with a big sigh of relief! Knowing that, the only pressure to produce is the pressure you put on yourself and any expectations from anyone else is irrelevant. Our dancers also got to sit in on the discussions and I think they’re beginning to understand, perhaps, that we don’t want robots, we want personality.
My dancers a speaking up more now too, giving their opinions and input to the work, sometimes I can’t get them to shut up! I love it!
