Sublime

if a group is left alone, they will grow rigid.

The Director’s first and most prominent task is to always keep the production moving forward in the general direction of the goal.

majordomo,

Good actors will not step in front of a camera without their subtext.

As a leader, these examples of slowification should make you ask: Are you regularly looking at situations? And before you must begin performing, are you regularly conducting some version of dress rehearsal? If not, you may be missing chances to identify flaws in your thinking and to see gaps in what you can do. If you miss those chances, they will

In dance conceived somatically, we can excavate body memories and possible selves. This is so precisely because somatic conceptions of dance concentrate on what the mover is experiencing, rather than on impressing an audience. The attitude and focus of the performer is key. Thus any form of dance might be conceived with first-person attention to th

The first was that the creative architects knew how to play. The second was that the creative architects always deferred making decisions for as long as they were allowed.

Bertolt Brecht,

In effect, Gene and Steve started by thinking that their job was to get the movers and painters to fit into and support the system. By the end, they were trying to figure out, with the help of the movers and painters, how to get the system to be as centered around the movers and painters as possible as well as be supportive of their efforts. Such a