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“I don't like working - I just like having done the end product. The process, I like to make it quick and painful.”

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Michaela Coel is a British poet known for her unique poetic style and profound personal expression. Her works often explore themes of race, gender, and social identity, earning her praise from readers and critics alike. more

“I think empowerment of women is exactly what's happening now, with women being portrayed as human beings, and not just black and white. Men can be the anti-hero all the time, and it's cool, but when women are, they're twisted or messed up or something is wrong with them. I think it's just about portraying women in the world as equals to men, and vice versa.”

Thinking Men World Black Empowerment Black And White Twisted

Author:Riley Keough

“A young choreographer often gets hung up on thinking they have to have all the answers. As a choreographer ages, they realize that they're more of a steward to movement. We mold movement and curate and form it into plausible and understandable stories.”

Thinking Age Realizing Hung

Author:Dana Tai Soon Burgess

“From person's movement patterns I can tell a lot of things: if pain is in the body, whether someone is depressed, what age they are. When you see someone whose chest is withdrawn, their deltoids are rolled forward. That's someone whose history has broken them, in a sense. You can recognize that movement of pulling away and protecting the heart across all cultures.”

Heart Age Pain Culture Broken

Author:Dana Tai Soon Burgess

“I think one of the biggest limitations for an artist is not being able to dream a golden dream. We're always saying, "Oh, we can make do with this," or "We can problem-solve this." But John Neumeier's creative process was very different from piecemealing. It was the first time I understood I could build something larger and that it could be and should be supported.”

Thinking Different Dream Artist Creative First Time Limitation Creative Process

Author:Dana Tai Soon Burgess

“As a child I always loved traditional Korean masked dances. There is something magical about a mask because we all wear or hide behind a metaphoric mask, and ultimately underneath this metaphor is our true vulnerable core. I think we all want to reveal ourselves but can only do so when we feel we are safe.”

Thinking Children Metaphor Vulnerable Mask Korean

Author:Dana Tai Soon Burgess

“A dance feels finished to me when I suddenly see this moment in the movement that feels like closure and makes me want to cry. And then I'll realize, "Oh, that's the end. This whole thing is working because it all led up to this moment." It pulls all this together and it sends the correct message in a very poetic way.”

Moments Together Realizing Cry Poetic Closure

Author:Dana Tai Soon Burgess

“I don't understand choreographers who say they don't care about the audience or that they would be happy to present their works non-publicly. I think dance is a form of communication and the goal is to dialogue with the audience. If an audience member tells me they cried or that the dance moved them to think about their own journey or a family member's, then the work is successful.”

Thinking Care Goal Audience Successful Journey Communication Moved Dialogue

Author:Dana Tai Soon Burgess

“All people share the same desire to be treated equally. We all go through similar emotional journeys from love to hate, rejection to acceptance. I think the most important thing for dance right now is to allow for more empathy and understanding between people of different races and socioeconomic statuses. In our society we need to build bridges.”

People Thinking Important Different Desire Hate Understanding Journey Share Acceptance Emotional Empathy Rejection Love Hate

Author:Dana Tai Soon Burgess

“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”

Happiness Fear Creativity Worry Anxiety Innovation Bad Ass

Book:The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Oriented Deliberation in View of the Dogmatic Problem of Hereditary Sin

Source: The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Oriented Deliberation in View of the Dogmatic Problem of Hereditary Sin

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