The Creative Process

Last week, we had a staff meeting to discuss the process of creating an act, and how we can guide students through their own creative process in the fall session.

Whether you come to class for the fitness and strength building, the creative opportunities, the puzzle of learning a new wrap, or just the awesome sense of community - or all of those things - circus arts are part of the performing arts, meaning that at the end of the day, they're meant to be shared with an audience. Even if it never makes it beyond the class, or the gallery on your phone.

I think the idea of creating something in the artistic realm can feel overwhelming, and many people tend to avoid it. It's been given a bad rap. To be honest, I think that is, in part, the unfortunate side effect of untrained or unskilled teachers delving into the creative process without the proper tools.

😲 Yep, I said it. There are right and wrong ways to approach a creative process, and teaching those ways in takes just as much technical knowledge as learning an inversion.

Starting from EMOTIONS not working for you? ie. "pretend you're very mad and do your sequence."

🙄 Notes like that are a HUGE pet peeve of mine! More on that another day.

Don't let that kind of cue turn you away from the chance to experience the satisfaction and joy of expressing yourself by building and creating something that is all your own. Your frustration and/or hesitation may just be that the instructor you were working with wasn't up to the task of guiding someone through a creative process. There are no regulations, no tests or exams that must be passed in order to be deemed qualified to teach this stuff. It's possible that a particular instructor's approach just didn't work for you!

⭐There are many ways in. Keep trying!⭐

Lindsay