“Certainly the motivation to achieve, to learn, to try something, to master a skill, is positive and desirable. But it can often overwhelm the subtler curiosities and creative impulses and create stress. Opportunities that arise in the present moment can often be missed when we’re too strongly focused on a particular outcome. This by itself is not particularly serious. But if one gets in the habit of focusing too strongly on what isn’t there, to the exclusion of what is, it can become physically dangerous, as your mind is elsewhere and perhaps not prepared to respond quickly to the situation at hand.” — Nancy Stark Smith
Here’s a video of a Contact Improvisation performance called “Yield” which was performed by Vitali Kononov and Rosemary Hannon at the West Coast Contact Improvisation Festival in 2007: Yield at WCCIF 2007
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