Hello folks,

If you have been following our One Year Blog Project, you may have noticed that we generally release our blogs on Wednesday afternoons, in conjunction with our weekly vlog.  And, if you have really been following, you noticed that we missed last week’s blog!  Well, “missed” might be a little misleading.

So, what happened?  Well, we were scheduled to send out a newsletter that first Wednesday, 3/7, and I was having a hard time figuring out exactly what to write.  We have a few projects underway right now, but nothing that we have, you know, just completed or anything.  We have a few gigs that are in talks, but that do not have solid dates yet, and you know, contracts.  I was feeling like our newsletter might end up being like, “Hey, how you doin’?” type thing…  So, I kept trying to rewrite things in ways that would hopefully make it seem like we had something to say :-/  … right up until the deadline…  and then, the deadline passed.

What you should also know is that our idiosynCrazy staff (Shannon, Shavon and I) has been having some organizational coaching meetings with a wonderful organization and life coach, Kilian Kroll.  With Kilian, we have been imagining the future of idiosynCrazy, crafting out our individual roles as directors of the organization, designing ways that we would like to present our art to audiences, constructing models of engagement with different communities, planning the classes that we teach on a weekly basis to professional dancers and performers, discussing the model of our project at Swarthmore and its potential future at Swarthmore and other places, brainstorming ways to create financial and social sustainability, thinking about immediate projects like Private Places and the duet that Jumatatu and Shannon are currently creating, and so on…  Well, I guess we have been pretty busy, even if not newsletter-worthy quite yet 😉

How are we going to make it up to you?  So, at the beginning of April, we will release our newsletter PLUS the next installment of our “What do you think?” series (the last one was centered around the title of this season’s first idioSomatics session: POST-JAZZ).  So, please be on the look out.  We would love your input.  All right, take care and we will be in touch again soon.

smiling,
jumatatu

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