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Archive for February, 2008

Being a social animal and creative – developing creativity through supportive connections

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Much writing and advice on enhancing creativity focuses on the individual. But creating happens in a social context, and it depends on inspiration from others, and on getting an audience, and support from publishers and producers. Creative work impacts other people, even worldwide. But being creative can also be inhibited by others.
Dancer, choreographer and teacher [...]

How much do you censor yourself and your art? – freeing creative expression from internal bondage

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

“The danger of censorship in the United States is less from business or the religious right or the self-righteous left than from the self-censorship of artists themselves, who simply give up.”
Writer and director Frank Pierson (former President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences) added, “If we can’t see a way to get [...]