"Waiting, allowing and responding is sometimes a more satisfying way to work." This is a quote/instruction from one of my dance improvisation professors, Polly Motley. I offer it here as a radical alternative to "I-must-make-it-happen" networking.
Then again, my first graduate degree was in creative writing (nonfiction, writing essays about the body and dance) and I now find myself back in graduate school for philosophy -- I think if for no other reason then to experiment on which degree is less lucrative -- so you may take that with a sizable grain of salt.
Still, it's been an wonderful journey, listening to everything that has shown up and dancing one duet at a time along the way.
One more dance quote, from Steve Paxton, my professor's mentor, and the subject, in part, of my work: "In the midst of standing still, something else is happening and the name for that is the small dance."
Perhaps you are better at small dancing than L? There is the grand leap and the frenetic lunge, and then there is the ever-present small dance.
Sweet dancing to you!
I believe in the power of small dances, however invisible, however slow moving.
On Diary of an Unemployed Class of '10 Philosophy Major in New York City, Part 3
"Waiting, allowing and responding is sometimes a more satisfying way to work." This is a quote/instruction from one of my dance improvisation professors, Polly Motley. I offer it here as a radical alternative to "I-must-make-it-happen" networking.
Then again, my first graduate degree was in creative writing (nonfiction, writing essays about the body and dance) and I now find myself back in graduate school for philosophy -- I think if for no other reason then to experiment on which degree is less lucrative -- so you may take that with a sizable grain of salt.
Still, it's been an wonderful journey, listening to everything that has shown up and dancing one duet at a time along the way.
One more dance quote, from Steve Paxton, my professor's mentor, and the subject, in part, of my work: "In the midst of standing still, something else is happening and the name for that is the small dance."
Perhaps you are better at small dancing than L? There is the grand leap and the frenetic lunge, and then there is the ever-present small dance.
Sweet dancing to you!
I believe in the power of small dances, however invisible, however slow moving.