There is something we do before a big performance that we almost never talk about. We make it smaller than it is. This is not carelessness. It is a very specific kind of preparation. And it costs more than it saves.

Most people don’t seek somatic work out of curiosity. They come because tension, pain, or performance frustration won’t resolve.

Improvisatory presence is not the absence of preparation. It is what becomes possible when we feel steady enough to meet the people in front of us as they are.