Green Arts Network: Pathways from Inspiration to Artistry

OK: A discussion is appropriate! I think it is important that we all become students of inspiration and artistry. This is NOT TECHNIQUE. It involves personal growth in areas that make us a better human being and we bring that to every note we play in music, every movement we do as a dancer, every thing we say on stage! It means we have to go 'outside' to feed our souls. I know many already are doing this! But it's not part of our pedagogy for mastery of an instrument. The discipline of CONCENTRATION, where I have explored through the Inner Game of Music, is now amongst many accepted pedagogies in most music curriculum. That has taken 30 years but it is very common to have courses in schools on stage freight, concentration, peak performance. However, my hope is that the future will also have common place the requirement of voice training, rhythm training and movement training as essential as harmony, keyboard skills, and pedagogy classes! Expression comes through your body so what are we doing to feed the body? I say in many situations -not AS MUCH as we could.
We have to find it ourselves however. We have to create our own program. We have to find our own teachers, take our favorite movement disciplines, find coaches that will guide us along these paths. I hope this website will be one of the ways you will find your inspiration. Be your own teacher because you probably won't get this stuff from the local music store or academic music education class. You have to work harder for it but it's worth it. Can we continue the discussion? BG