Finding the boundaries - What do you want to share and what is too personal?
Ways of creating text from yourself: Interviewing yourself with open ended questions + Flowwriting
Having an awareness on artistic goals - who do you want to create work for and who do you want to make work about?
You are not one narrative but many different narratives
TRUSTING THAT YOUR STORY IS WORTH SOMETHING AND THAT YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO GIVE
The video from my solo performance: "Ramshackled and flabbergasted" - from the Jessica Taylor workshop
What to tell and how to tell
How can you take on someone elses story? Playing character from rhythm instead of emotion
"I try to close the gap between us by applauding the gap between us. I am willing to display my own unlikeness" - Anna Deavere Smith
Whos story is being told by whom and for whom? Who am I in this?
What is colonizing and what is artistic freedom?
You have to construct to deconstruct
Freedom of speech but not freedom of consequences
Accept the FUCKUPS
Anna Deavere Smith - "Fires in the Mirror"
Fires in the mirror deals with racial tensions between the Jewish and Black communities in Crown Heights Brooklyn in 1991. Smith interviews people from the two communities and reenacts them as specifically as possible (dialect, intonations, gestures etc).
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