The highly observant amongst you may have noticed a small tweak to the header at the top of the page.
Over the past weeks, I have been doing a lot of hard work on personal stuff like aesthetic preferences. This has been an interesting voyage of self-discovery which has by no means come to an end. After all, I’m not dead yet! I will be writing more about how this affects my dance/life another time.
This has lead to a few significant realisations and subsequent adjustments to my life planning. One of these has been the appearance of a sort of ‘mission statement’ for my dance related activities. I can’t say I worked specifically on this, but it did pop up when I was looking for a descriptive phrase to describe my approach:
Opulence in motion
Now I’d be the first to admit that this is still at the aspirational phase! However, I take heart in the thought that this is something I can consciously seek to embody in my dance. Having uncovered this phrase, I’m now looking to things like my costume choices and even my movement vocabulary to see how I can dance this idea to my fullest ability – feedback on how I’m doing would be most welcome, please 🙂
I am a newcomer to this whole focus phrase/mission statement business, and I will be interested to see how it affects me and my dance over time. I’m hoping that it will be a help! I have already noticed a few subtles changes: I’m watching more Golden Age and Oriental dance on YouTube, and my costuming choices are getting richer and more detailed (sumptuousness is a good thing – right?!).
So, here’s a question: do you have a ‘mission statement’ for your dance? If you do, how does it help you? And can it be a hindrance, too?
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Coming soon (yes, really!): my review of Tanya Bamford-King‘s “Dancing the Drum” workshop in Wellington
