This is a drive-by due to wonky Internet access, but I want to say YAAAAAAY! This makes so much sense. Isn't it easy for all of us to fall into that? When reach a certain skill level and are good at some decently impressive-looking stuff and can do it easily, it's really natural for that to become what we do all the time.
I *know* the simpler (as in unlayered, unadulterated, not as in easy) stuff is what conveys so much of the emotional impact, it's what I love to watch, it's what's good for my body. But do I work on it? Do I "work it" in performance. No, I do not. I'm feeling very superficial right now, as if I'm spending most of my performance time zooming around -- zooming musically, I hope -- and gesturing and shimmying and flirting. I don't sustaaaain movements and milk them for all they are worth. I am not the dancer I have been and can and should be. I am, at the moment, a bit of a meringue. :)
Thank you for this. Maybe it's a resolution for the new year: fewer shortcuts, more endorphins!
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Date: 2010-12-28 11:37 pm (UTC)I *know* the simpler (as in unlayered, unadulterated, not as in easy) stuff is what conveys so much of the emotional impact, it's what I love to watch, it's what's good for my body. But do I work on it? Do I "work it" in performance. No, I do not. I'm feeling very superficial right now, as if I'm spending most of my performance time zooming around -- zooming musically, I hope -- and gesturing and shimmying and flirting. I don't sustaaaain movements and milk them for all they are worth. I am not the dancer I have been and can and should be. I am, at the moment, a bit of a meringue. :)
Thank you for this. Maybe it's a resolution for the new year: fewer shortcuts, more endorphins!