Nine years later and still ruminating endlessly about the power of practice… about the passion and commitment, and often, the support of others required to sustain a robust practice. The costs can be so great…ditto for the rewards.
“I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. In each, it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one’s being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes, in some area, an athlete of God. Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire….”~Martha Graham
Photo credit: Nikki Carrara
Showtime. After years of work and floods of physical output, emotion, creativity and sweat, our new, evening-length dance piece premieres this weekend.
As a dancer, I think about “practice” a lot. Often, we think of it as involving repetition of actions or thoughts to attain proficiency. While that component of practice is, of…
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