“our bodies and minds are not two and not one…our bodies and minds are both two and one.” —Suzuki Roshi polarity → dipole → binary → opposites → contradiction → paradox Paradoxes help me hold, leverage, surf, and transcend polarities. When a process (a dance, a body) can include both “sides” of a polarity at once as
In October of 2015, the Texas Tech University College of Visual and Performing Arts, the TTU School of Music and Department of Theatre and Dance, the Roots Music Institute (501c3), and the TTU Vernacular Music Center presented the conference Arts Practice Research: Scholarship, Pedagogy, and the Creative Process. Leslie, Eric, and I proposed the following
