Day 50

Improvisation is slowly becoming a habit.  I find the urge to improv happening regularly, and now I find myself dancing just about everywhere.  This journey has brought me back to my childhood.  Remember when you were a kid, and it didn't matter who watched, you just had to move?  I think improvisation has changed how I feel about dance.  It is no longer about technique, perfection, being the best, getting into companies, or cast lists. Dance has become a way to be the truest me.  So there have been many undocumented improvisation sessions. 

I do want to continue to blog, as a way to see growth and change over time. 

Day 50 was inspired by a solo I am working on.  The solo starts with me seated on a chair upstage right.  I recite the following monologue:

It all started in kindergarten.  For show and tell, one of my classmates brought a video of her tap dancing to Billy Ray Cyrus's Achy Breaky Heart. I was completely mesmerized. At the end of that year, on a cut out cardboard diploma, I declared,"When I grow up, I am going to dance on the stage." 

So today's improvisation is tap dance meets modern dance in a chair.