![]() Beginning to doubt myself, I felt the need to read the book again. Some of the people criticized my creative process and doubted that my method would produce a worthy and meaningful end result. Recently, I was the team leader on a collaborative project. The following is my interpretation of what has carried me through the years: Trust that I have within me the ability to create what lives beneath the surface of every day’s reality, and in spite of, and because of the chaos and tension existing in the creative act, as long as I continue moving toward the vision, the image, the concept I am struggling to birth into this reality, I will not get lost in the great unknown, but bring forth what I am creating, and make meaning in the process. One sentence in the book leaped out and grabbed my psyche and has stayed with me since. I felt as if someone finally understood me, or maybe I finally understood myself. ![]() That day, I found a copy in the library, checked it out, and read the book in a couple of sittings. When I read the words The Courage to Create, the title jumped out at me. Hawkins was interested in how the creative and imaginative processes work in order to support the choreographic process she had developed. ![]() ![]() You may wonder: Why would there be a reading list for a dance class? Dr. Alma Hawkins at Santa Monica Community College, The Courage to Create by Rollo May was on the reading list for the class. In the early 1980s when I studied choreography with Dr. ![]()
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