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 Twyla Tharp: The creative habit  "The first steps of a creative act are like groping in the dark: random and chaotic, feverish and fearful, a lot of busy-ness with no apparent or definable end in sight." "Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art..." Create The Future  "To inspire action, you must create urgency"  "A motivated team can achieve the impossible." Creative Lego "That's kind of how creativity works. Sometimes the thing you're working on is following someone else's plan." "It's OK if you don't know how it will turn out. It's OK if you don't have an instruction set. Creativity almost never comes with a nice set of photos guiding you to the finished product." Guide to Creativity "it’s difficult to wrap your head around the actual concept of creativity." "Creativity and intelligence are part of the same construct (they’re basically the same thing)"

 

Reflection Some difficulties we had with the project included lighting, creating the mood and making movements. We were not sure at first how to do the lighting and just had a spotlight. We were not sure how to portray the sadness in our piece with the lights. However, 1 day before we presented our piece we had an idea to put a blue spotlight on me to show the loneliness and sadness. Creating the mood of sadness was not only difficult with the lighting, but also with our movements. In our rough draft, we were all over the place. It took a lot of brainstorming to figure out new movements for our piece that showed sadness. An easy part of the piece would be the title. It did not take a lot of thinking to come up with the name "loney trees", and it worked perfectly for our piece. Something surprising about our piece was how long it took to brainstorm the middle of the piece where I am lonely. What changed the most from the beginning to the ending of the project was at first in o...