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Nicole (Johnson) Williams
Feb 163 min read
46. what does it mean to be human?
It’s something about being on the inside,
From the inside,
Seeing from the inside
Or the other side?
Or another side.
Perspective, perhaps..
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Nicole (Johnson) Williams
Nov 18, 20243 min read
45. considering power and powerlessness
I appreciated making this piece so much because, like the poem, it required me to look at the subject of power from multiple perspectives al
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Nicole (Johnson) Williams
Oct 22, 20243 min read
44. transferability?
I think it's safe to say that all of my work over the past three years has been grounded in this idea of Embodied Storytelling, by which...
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Nicole (Johnson) Williams
Oct 2, 20245 min read
43. new venture
I'm currently on a plane headed to Boston from Seattle, where I spent the past 4 days at the National Dance Education Organization (NDEO)...
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Nicole (Johnson) Williams
Oct 1, 20246 min read
42. a philosophy
In 2011, when I entered the work force as a dance educator for the first time, I was devastated. At 24 years old, I believed that...
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Nicole (Johnson) Williams
Oct 1, 20242 min read
41. curriculum values
My primary responsibility as an educator is to equip learners with the skills necessary to develop four practices: truth seeking,...
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Nicole (Johnson) Williams
Oct 1, 20244 min read
40. concepts and theory
In Doug Risner’s Curriculum Theory Basics , he outlines numerous curriculum theories that educators have historically employed. There...
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Nicole (Johnson) Williams
Oct 10, 20231 min read
39. all those on the other end of the line
One of my students passed away the other day. There have been a lot of feelings and truths to wade through in association with that. Of...
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Nicole (Johnson) Williams
Sep 14, 20236 min read
38. concept discovery
This year, I will continue the exploration I began two years ago of the Aeaea Project, with a special emphasis on how I facilitate the...
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Nicole (Johnson) Williams
Apr 27, 20235 min read
37. revision – final blog post
The final stage of this Artistic Cycle is the Revision Stage, where students are asked to explore and/or revise as much of the artistic...
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Nicole (Johnson) Williams
Apr 27, 20235 min read
36. reflections toward revision
Last week, I worked with Urban Bush Women as a member of the Community Care Chorus for their site-responsive piece, Haint Blu, presented...
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Nicole (Johnson) Williams
Apr 16, 20234 min read
35. reflection
As I reflect upon this artistic experience from beginning to end, I am beyond satisfied with the outcomes. I began with a clear concept...
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Nicole (Johnson) Williams
Apr 11, 20234 min read
34. a necessity for intuitive play
Over the two-week spring break at my school, I went into the studio three times each week to warm up with a ballet barre and center, then...
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Nicole (Johnson) Williams
Mar 14, 20233 min read
33. the left shoe on the right footÂ
I have spent the past week grounding myself in a physical exploration of my ballet practice and trying to understand where it lives in my...
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Nicole (Johnson) Williams
Mar 6, 20237 min read
32. storytelling with ballet
I spent this past week in Pittsburg, accompanying 10 of my students at the National High School Dance Festival hosted at Point Park...
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Nicole (Johnson) Williams
Feb 28, 20234 min read
31. of the larger picture
The solo that I’m re-envisioning for this project is one piece of a larger work. This particular solo was actually a piece of a different...
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Nicole (Johnson) Williams
Feb 20, 20234 min read
30. finding synergy
synergy – (noun) the interaction or cooperation of two or more organizations, substances, or other agents to produce a combined effect...
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Nicole (Johnson) Williams
Feb 14, 20235 min read
29. without having recourse to overwhelming, ornate purple prose
Oppression I want to talk about oppression. What it’s made of, what it stems from, and how racism is at the crux of it all. Maybe, if one...
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Nicole (Johnson) Williams
Feb 6, 20234 min read
28. due all women who refuse to wait in vain
The text that I am using for this Artistic Experience is the poem, Sequelae, written by Audre Lorde and published in her 1978 book, The...
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Nicole (Johnson) Williams
Feb 1, 20233 min read
27. backstory
I got a hunch… *hunch– (v) raise (one’s shoulders) and bend the top of one’s body forward *hunch– (n) a feeling or guess based on...
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