Defining your role in the creative process of performance preparations during Rehearsal Season.  Sprinkled with tidbits about ego and the role your purposeful decisions can make a difference in the way you view contest results.

Train the brain just as you train the body!  Little experiences lead to big skills.  Give your students opportunities to be flexible in their training/learning/performing experiences

Deep Thoughts about shapeshifting, ego, identify, and art -- as in the art you are creating during REHEARSAL Season.  Thoughts to help your dancers understand that dance is a Performance Art!  And a discussion of my favorite color :)

As you are preparing a dance work for performance,  you might be limiting the possibilities and creative potential of all involved when you judge too quickly what can and can't be done

Rambling and honestly, probably still incomplete, listing of things your better get done before that first contest adventure with your group

Dancer or Not -- you gotta hear this quote!  All about transcending your attachments/ego/identity to forge into a new you.

A quick 2 minute thought about putting a bit of variety into your everyday teaching/workout/training routine

No moment  or movement should ever be regarded as unimportant!

Starting with a Quote by Muhammed Ali,  A guy who knows about WINNING -- this week renames "Contest Season"  into "Rehearsal Season"  and pursues a thought:  where is the battle, fight, trophy really won?  In a few fleeting minutes on the competition floor -- or at practice!

The Influence of Your Attention is a powerful gift to embolden others to take reasonable risks