Engineer. Choreographer. Thinker. Creator.
Where does your inspiration come from? And when it's gone, how do you get it back? I've been feeling exceptionally uninspired recently, as you may have noted from the gap in my writing. Even as I write this, I'm having an incredible urge to stop. Maybe what I'm really lacking is momentum. As artists, dancers, …
I was in a place sometime ago where I became actively aware of the things falling apart around me. A favorite jacket, a pair of grey boots, relationships, my childhood home, and so on. This process of noticing the wearing and tearing didn't start there. At the time, I was engaging in a choreographic project …
Is this thing still on? I haven't forgotten how to type -- I've been doing quite a bit of that recently. But this isn't about that. This is about the thing that I started earlier this year. A thing that I considered not finishing. The thing that took all of my energy and focus in …
...  your emotions is exhausting, in case you were wondering. I started this project a while ago, for those of you that don't know, in which I record myself reading old journal entries from a specific point in time then improvise to them then strip the audio and put the movement to something else that may …
I saw a performance today, one that most of us have seen ("us" being any member of society at large that has access to this blog post, one way or another) and have probably been a part of. It only took about a minute of my time to watch, so it should take even less …
I did a lot of filming yesterday. I posted another video about a month ago that I said was the first in a series that I'm planning on doing, and the video in this post is part of that project. Briefly, if you haven't or don't feel like looking back at the other post, this project is …
Continue reading "(embodied memory) – Whatever This Body is Seeking to Communicate"
If you're friends with me, chances are in the past month or so you've heard me repeat over and over again that I'm trying to "find a new/my aesthetic". It's become an obsession, really, and denying it would be counterproductive and would take away my inspiration for this post (so by writing this I'm acknowledging …
How can I learn how to center myself when self centering is understood as self centeredness and gets translated into arrogance? It becomes over confidence; it is seen as too much. "Too much". How often is anything women do, black women in particular, dumped into the category of being "too much"? Too loud, too quiet, too …
I got the inspiration for this small collection of pictures (that I may or may not add on to)Â when I noticed that I managed to rip a seam on a pair of relatively new boots. And then when I remembered the holes in the sleeve of my favorite leather jacket, and how the pocket of …
A few things before you watch: This is the first video in a project that doesn't have a title yet and I'm not sure it will have a title. This project has to do with a "writing series" (I guess you could call it -- it was more like a series of Carrie Bradshaw style …
Nia E. Sanders 