by dawnd | Jul 13, 2015 | Personal, Psychology
Forgiveness is one of those things in our society that we really gloss over. Something horrible happens to us, and if we’re are lucky we have deep friends who are there by our side, willing to listen to us – for as long as we need – as we find...
by dawnd | Mar 22, 2015 | Contact Juggling, Personal, Psychology
This article was written in 2004, before I became a performer. Photo of Yuki Ueda and Benjamin West at the Vancouver Art Gallery meet up Saturday Circus. If you pass by Science World on a sunny Tuesday afternoon, you will see pins flying through the air, people...
by dawnd | Mar 19, 2015 | Fire, Juggling, Psychology, Street performing, Teach and Learn!, Tutorials
Image: Steven Ragatz performs at the ScotiaBank Buskers Festival in 2012 A world class performance requires us to be masters of many disciplines. If you’ve trained properly at a circus school – great! They likely taught you many of these tricks. But, if you’re...
by dawnd | Mar 8, 2015 | Juggling, Psychology, Teach and Learn!
Do you have some rest time between training sessions where your body can’t physically move any longer but you still want to keep practicing? Here are some books every performer should read to deepen the understanding of the psychology of creativity, skill acquisition...
by dawnd | Feb 1, 2015 | Clown, Psychology
Originally posted May 7, 2012 by Dawn Dreams on the SPARK Circus blog. We woke up in a church in some boarder town in Thailand. It’s Sunday and the only Sunday in my life that I have been in church. Jesus and the King looking down upon me sleeping through a faintly...
by dawnd | Jan 14, 2015 | Clown, Psychology
Last night I (finally) watched Patch Adams the movie. It is filled with wonderful beliefs about the world that I share with the protagonist: somewhere in our lives we decide conforming is better than whatever’s inside us and this disconnects us from others and...
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