Lifes Education
Choreography in a Crisis
How I turned despair into creativity
I suppose I’m actually sorry for once…
But you see…
Creativity tired of me long ago as did
That highly sought after flair… – Owari
Life throws us challenges, it is how you approach them and what you learn that is important.
I was studying for my degree at university, a creative course in drama, theatre, performance, and dance studies.
Life at the time was hard. Really hard. Being a mature student and surrounded by youngsters who were blissfully unaware of the challenges life can throw at you, I was faced with the task of devising and performing a solo choreography.
Feeling like I had about as much creativity as a stone, and at first, sinking into my own negativity and downward spiral, the idea came to me, that this could be put to use and perhaps instead bring about a positive outcome.
The initial idea came from my own negative spiral and turned to the study of spirals in nature, I was particularly interested in the spiral of a tornado, the path it takes, and how it gathers everything in that path, a good metaphor for my own…
