You look for your slippers. Something to warm your feet from the cold of the bare floor.
You look out the window. It’s not even dawn yet. The darkness of the morning is alive and pulsing.
You stretch your legs. You stretch your body.
You go into the kitchen and get the coffee going.
This is routine. This is a kind of safety.
But you know that the demands of the day have barely begun, least of all the ones that will test your overall sense of morality and ethics.
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This reflective was really interesting and relevant to a lot of what we do in the theatre and in this school specifically. I love how we try to connect our work to the troubles of the outside world here because as a busy student and an artist it's so easy to be discouraged by and to ignore the troubles in the world. This article read poetically which I believe made it easier to relate to, as almost every day I go through the same choreographed moves mentioned; wake up in the cold morning, pour coffee, check the news, and try to move through the day despite the atrocities of the previous night. The question of whether art can create the effective social change we often want it to will probably never be satisfyingly answered, but the article ends on a positive note. We create drama and action. We can't predict the future but we can make it ourselves.
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