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๐๐ฒ๐๐ผ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ถ๐บ๐ถ๐๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ฃ๐น๐ฎ๐ป๐ป๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐ต๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ผ๐ด๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ต๐
The five-year plan is dead. Life brings shocks and surprises and unplannable contingencies. (Pandemic anyone?)
Yet, humans crave certainty! Planning helps us feel like we have a map to where we are going, even though a map doesn't show all that might happen along the route. So, if you enjoy planning, do so!
Same with choreography. A choreography tells us to start here, do this, go there, then do this, then that, move there, do that, etc. If you're developing an assembly line or a performance you intend to be as close to identical from day-to-day, choreography is helpful for sure. Everyone learns their moves in sequence. If no one breaks a leg, it'sโฆ "perfect" day-after-day.
Does that feel like thriving to you? For those of us who value freedom, scripted moves take away the moment-by-moment co-creativity that improvisation encourages.
Planning and rigid choreography can also be less resilient. Improv teaches us to be with what is right nowโฆ and respond creatively and intentionally. If something breaks or someone leaves, we continue to improvise. If the weather changes, finances are strained, or a major client leavesโฆ we improvise!
Yes to Yes to Yes. That doesn't stop one of those yes's from being, "Let's stop and craft a plan to add some structure." An improvisational attitude takes us beyond the limits of structure into dynamic and empowered responses โ individually and together.
https://www.thrivingnow.com/concept/improvisation
The five-year plan is dead. Life brings shocks and surprises and unplannable contingencies. (Pandemic anyone?)
Yet, humans crave certainty! Planning helps us feel like we have a map to where we are going, even though a map doesn't show all that might happen along the route. So, if you enjoy planning, do so!
Same with choreography. A choreography tells us to start here, do this, go there, then do this, then that, move there, do that, etc. If you're developing an assembly line or a performance you intend to be as close to identical from day-to-day, choreography is helpful for sure. Everyone learns their moves in sequence. If no one breaks a leg, it'sโฆ "perfect" day-after-day.
Does that feel like thriving to you? For those of us who value freedom, scripted moves take away the moment-by-moment co-creativity that improvisation encourages.
Planning and rigid choreography can also be less resilient. Improv teaches us to be with what is right nowโฆ and respond creatively and intentionally. If something breaks or someone leaves, we continue to improvise. If the weather changes, finances are strained, or a major client leavesโฆ we improvise!
Yes to Yes to Yes. That doesn't stop one of those yes's from being, "Let's stop and craft a plan to add some structure." An improvisational attitude takes us beyond the limits of structure into dynamic and empowered responses โ individually and together.
https://www.thrivingnow.com/concept/improvisation