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CONVERSATION Starter
Repetition. Neuroplasticity. Repetition hones skills. We know, our body/brain memorizes the neural path to complete a task. Repetition of mistakes can also build habitual paths, ruts that need modifying. The path to success at any task, new or familiar, blocked, or needing to be rerouted, comes through something known as neuroplasticity. The brain can rewire and create new connections, use other senses, with repetition and practice, to adapt to needs. Consider this miracle available to us. Find ordinary examples and extraordinary examples. Read up and discuss.
Exploratory
Start a new skill. Learn a new dance form for at least one month, a form out of your element. Journal or film the first and last day of month. Discuss the journey. Improvise on the idea of forming new pathways to a destination through your dance form. Start with the familiar and modify. Remove a sense, skill, or movement option, and modify. Discuss.
Escape and Inspiration
Art: North Fourth Arts Center is showing “Women Behaving Badly: A Retrospective by Adri Norris through Jan. 25th. 4904 Fourth St NW.
Sensory: make a dance trail in snow covered park feeling the ground. Retrace it.
Upcoming Theater: The Adobe Theater presents Mountaintop, Jan 19th, an “edgy, controversial, thought provoking play” taking place in the motel room of Martin Luther King Jr. on the night before his assassination. https://www.adobetheater.org/2024-season
Upcoming Dance: Keshet Dance & Center for the Arts presents Everett Company: Bliss Body Jan 27th 6:30pm and Parables from Prison Sun. Jan 28th 2pm, two premier productions from the Providence RI company. KeshetArts.org/Events or email info@KeshetArts.org
Upcoming Dance/Art: Dancing Women Art Show and Performance at Maple Street Dance Center Feb. 2nd 5:30. The event includes paintings of dancers by Mindy Bradford in addition to dance and musical performance https://www.maplestreetdancespace.com/special-events-play
Upcoming Dance: Popejoy Theater brings Momix: Alice, Feb. 3rd https://www.popejoypresents.com/events/detail/momix-alice
