Sorting through the boxes and folders of lesson plans, lectures and articles I wrote during my years of teaching creative movement and physical theater, I found my notes for a discussion on ‘creative thinking for creative movers’.

A perfect reminder for the beginning of a new year – for movers and writers.

• Explore
• Shapeshift
• Perspective shift
• Listen to the movement [words, phrases, sentences, image…]
• Mess up the obvious
• Try the opposite
• Don’t think, just get on with it
• Wait a moment, what’s going on here?
• Let the movement [phrase, image…] take you somewhere else – somewhere new
• Let go of the linear – it’s a world to imagine
• Go with your personal vision
• Make the most of serendipity
• Enjoy unexpected juxtapositions
• Be here, now
• Surprise yourself

Happy New Year!