The Road To Germinating A Practice
Many a time I have posed the question to myself; 'what does it mean to establish a professional practice?' After reading various blogs from my piers, I have discovered that perhaps the best starting place is to turn back to ones roots in the industry in the most simplistic and the rawest form possible. Thus, I decided to begin with words. Although they have not always been my forte, words are the building blocks of communication and I therefore felt it beneficial to channel and strip back my thoughts on the matter by listing words that I associate with my own practice and its long standing history since 1939. Despite this, I wanted to incorporate a sense of imagery into this list and hence I decided to create my word bank in the form of a tree. Generally, trees represent a fundamental part of existence, providing air for all life and habitats for others. For me, this creates an interesting parallel to dance and over the years I have observed how for some children, including m