“They need to know it’s all about connection.” This sentence bubbled to the surface in a breakout group of newer and aspiring teachers at a tango teacher training several years ago. As soon as it did about a third of the group came to life, all reciting different versions of the same incantation, amping each […] Read more…
I hear this statement all the time: “Leading is more difficult than following.” Sometimes apologetically, sometimes with the qualifier, “but just in the beginning and intermediate stages,” but always with the bottom line that leading intrinsically requires more skill, more thought, and more attention than following. This might be okay if it were true, but […] Read more…
So far this series has covered three of the five elements of musicality: the creative, the emotional, and the somatic. Because musical expression is a partnership, one’s own creative, emotional, and somatic energies are only one half of being musical. Actually, I take that back. Saying they are one half of being musical implies that […] Read more…