One of the exercises we have done in the first few weeks of my MFA at OSU is called “You’re awesome!” I think it’s a great way to open the space with positivity and help everyone feel, well, awesome actually. Norah said it came from a theater exercise. You stand…
The “aboutness” is important right now. What is your experience about? What is your research about? What about you is unique, similiar or contrary? What are you about? I’m currently about discovery. It’s difficult to look at yourself. Display yourself. Find yourself the article of your attention, but that is…
Research Statements are no joke. So hard. How do you whittle down your interests into one specific thing that is the essence of your interests. What are my interests? That has been the point of the last two weeks here. I’m interested in everything I’m doing right now. I feel…
This summer we were tasked with reading “Honest Bodies: Revolutionary Modernism in the Dances of Anna Sokolow” and I was very excited to then sign up for a class with the author. How fun is it to take a course from the person who literally wrote the book on it!…
They put my name in cement right on 15th Street. It’s official.
The start of graduate school after working in the field is like a time-warp. I’ve fallen through the rabbit hole and here I am 20 years later, right where I started. Let’s begin.