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I know that I promised to deliver the dirt on the events leading up to my retirement. Since I am not retiring and after a heartfelt conversation with someone that I consider to be a wise friend I feel that I should focus on the Love side of swing rather than the “War” that rages behind the scenes. In the end I will be judged on how I lead my life, how I inspired people to follow the road less traveled, and how I turned the other cheek not how I spilled the beans and blew the whistle on swing music haters. In the end love will prevail so I feel that I must focus on fostering the love that I have for this unique and universally appealing dance. You have a choice this Friday: 1…Do something other than have the lesson of your life. 2…Have the lesson of your life! More people went out of their way to tell me how their eyes had been opened this past Friday than not. Approaching dance from both sides of the brain is how I have always learned. Not until recently had I thought to teach it the same way. Ask around to the folks that you know who went…Everyone was smiling and enjoying the whole night! For this Friday I am continuing in the same vein that we discovered last week…a teaching technique from my aunt who is an art teacher. She believes that both sides of the brain require attention in order for someone to truly become an artist. The two sides typically work like confronting personas in a multiple personality situation. There are certain techniques one can employ to let both side work as one. It is my believe that dancing is an art form therefore if you dance you are an artist and should be taught as one! The technical half of your brain evaluates what you are doing and extrapolates the data. Right and wrong, black and white, good and bad all happen on this side of your brain. The artistic side of your brain sees everything’s value in the form of energy. Life is captured as a series of very vivid 3 diminutional pictures. This side knows where to go and how to get there entirely by feel. There is no timeline, no right, and no wrong just energy coming and going. Since you can’t teach the technical side of an art form to the artistic side of the brain nor can you force the number crunching side to be creative how do we get the information into our bodies using both sides? Both sides of our brains make up who we are and so both sides must be feed in order to process information optimally. We crunch numbers all day every day making the analytical side of our brain comfortable being dominant. While we are learning an art form this becomes a problem because that is the side of the brain where right and wrong live. How can we step outside the box if we have a little voice in our head yelling “WRONG!!!!” at every missed step? Our first mission is to strengthen the artistic side so that we can traverse from interpretation to evaluation safely and have enough strength to get back to interpretation. This lesson Plan is very similar to how we approached the dance last week with a tad bit more music/musicality thrown in for good measure…See you: Friday, January 11, 2013 $10 DNE School of Dance 7:30-8:30 lesson 8:30-? Dancing 78 Princeton St. Chelmsford, Ma This Saturday:
Leadership is the manipulation of energy. Following is the embodiment of energy. Connection is the tie that binds the two together.
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