38. concept discovery
This year, I will continue the exploration I began two years ago of the Aeaea Project, with a special emphasis on how I facilitate the...
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Nicole (Johnson) Williams
- Apr 27, 2023
- 5 min
37. revision – final blog post
The final stage of this Artistic Cycle is the Revision Stage, where students are asked to explore and/or revise as much of the artistic...
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Nicole (Johnson) Williams
- Apr 27, 2023
- 5 min
36. reflections toward revision
Last week, I worked with Urban Bush Women as a member of the Community Care Chorus for their site-responsive piece, Haint Blu, presented...
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Nicole (Johnson) Williams
- Apr 16, 2023
- 4 min
35. reflection
As I reflect upon this artistic experience from beginning to end, I am beyond satisfied with the outcomes. I began with a clear concept...
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Nicole (Johnson) Williams
- Apr 11, 2023
- 4 min
34. a necessity for intuitive play
Over the two-week spring break at my school, I went into the studio three times each week to warm up with a ballet barre and center, then...
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Nicole (Johnson) Williams
- Mar 14, 2023
- 3 min
33. the left shoe on the right foot
I have spent the past week grounding myself in a physical exploration of my ballet practice and trying to understand where it lives in my...
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Nicole (Johnson) Williams
- Mar 6, 2023
- 7 min
32. storytelling with ballet
I spent this past week in Pittsburg, accompanying 10 of my students at the National High School Dance Festival hosted at Point Park...
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Nicole (Johnson) Williams
- Feb 28, 2023
- 4 min
31. of the larger picture
The solo that I’m re-envisioning for this project is one piece of a larger work. This particular solo was actually a piece of a different...
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Nicole (Johnson) Williams
- Feb 20, 2023
- 4 min
30. finding synergy
synergy – (noun) the interaction or cooperation of two or more organizations, substances, or other agents to produce a combined effect...
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Nicole (Johnson) Williams
- Feb 14, 2023
- 5 min
29. without having recourse to overwhelming, ornate purple prose
Oppression I want to talk about oppression. What it’s made of, what it stems from, and how racism is at the crux of it all. Maybe, if one...
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Nicole (Johnson) Williams
- Feb 6, 2023
- 4 min
28. due all women who refuse to wait in vain
The text that I am using for this Artistic Experience is the poem, Sequelae, written by Audre Lorde and published in her 1978 book, The...
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Nicole (Johnson) Williams
- Feb 1, 2023
- 3 min
27. backstory
I got a hunch… *hunch– (v) raise (one’s shoulders) and bend the top of one’s body forward *hunch– (n) a feeling or guess based on...
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Nicole (Johnson) Williams
- Jan 23, 2023
- 5 min
26. creativity and play – the pathway home
~ a reflection after reading “Mind at Play” from the book, Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art by Stephan Nachmanovitch and “What do...
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