Buckets

Finding Organization in Hyper Creativity

When you feel like everything is connected, and you hate being classified or labeled how do you organize your creative work? That has been one of the greatest challenges for me. Tap dance has always been central to my work, but not the central focus. I’ve considered myself more of a writer than a dancer. The connection between the language of words and the language of dance was formed early with me. With language, however, comes the desire, if not need, for communication. And communication only comes with being able to speak in a way that you are heard. It’s about the relationship, after all.

Around the middle of 2023, I finally sat down to work out the problem. I needed a way to organize my creativity. Not the practice, but where things went after they were made. The worst feeling for me was starting to make something, even finishing something, and not having a place to put it – figuratively and literally. Imagine having made a wonderful thing and then having no shelf, pitch deck, file folder, or email list for it to go. Having more clearly defined my problem – how to I organize the output of my work – I set to finding a solution.