Flora

 "The imagination network allows you to daydream or imagine yourself in someone else’s shoes" "The salience network let’s you identify when things you have buried deep in your brain are salient to the world around you" "Creativity almost never comes with a nice set of photos guiding you to the finished product" "Everyone has an imagination, it just might need a little workout. It doesn't mean you don't have the creative muscle, though it might need some exercise." "When the curtain rises, go hide and wait u til everybody leaves you.  Come out and play" "Hide until everybody goes home. Hide until everybody forgets about you. Hide until everybody dies" "Then no matter others' reaction, we have done our part. And we can keep going no matter what feedback we get." "It's worth alienating a few people to free up your creativity." 

 

Link to video: https://youtu.be/hC_5XFtp-Xs One easy thing for my group is to create the movements, as each of our topics is clear, so that we can all think of at least several movements for each topic. One of my members' emotions is love, and the simplest movement for this is to make a heart shape. The other member's one is shyness, and immediately we could think about sitting down with our faces down to the ground. Mine is power, and I could express this term by raising my hands up high. The movements are simple and easy to think of, but for me the most difficult thing is to connect them together into a performance: Love, shyness and power. These three topics are very different and it was challenging to add all of the emotions into one short play.  Previously, I tended to work alone, in which I could have control over all the things I work on, but now that I am not the only one responsible for the performance, it feels new and exciting. One very interesting thing is that this...