<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:#073763">Me: Ouch -- that was awful. Did you notice that GLARING MISTAKE I made?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:#073763">My Friends: No. We were just having fun enjoying the dances.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:#073763"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:#073763">Eventually I stopped obsessing.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 10:22 AM, Claire Baffaut via Callers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:callers@lists.sharedweight.net" target="_blank">callers@lists.sharedweight.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Ah yes! <br></div><div>Indeed it is a familiar feeling. So this pep talk is as much to myself as it is to you.</div><div><br></div>- Live performance means that there will be mistakes.<br></div>- It is not possible to learn anything without making mistakes. If you are not making any, you're not learning.<br></div>- Identify a few things that could be done differently (just a few as you cannot fix everything at once).<br></div>- Ask for gentle, objective feedback or suggestions.<br></div>- Once you've done these last two, forgive yourself. You'll do better next time.<br></div>- Hopefully, you can look forward the next gig and I wish you that it goes well and make you feel good.<br><br></div>Cheers,<br><br></div>Claire<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 10:10 AM, Maia McCormick via Callers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:callers@lists.sharedweight.net" target="_blank">callers@lists.sharedweight.<wbr>net</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:17px;text-decoration:-webkit-letterpress">So after a gig, I find myself haunted by one or two missteps from an evening — the rolling start that was a little muddy, the thing I didn’t teach clearly enough so the dancers never quite got it — even though the dancers adjusted and all had a good time, and I still had the hall’s trust and goodwill at the end of the evening.</span><div><span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:17px;text-decoration:-webkit-letterpress"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:17px;text-decoration:-webkit-letterpress">Is this a familiar experience for anyone? Assuming you’ve already learned the lesson to be learned there, how do you move past it and stop self-flagellating?</span><span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:17px;text-decoration:-webkit-letterpress">Would love to hear some people’s thoughts!</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:17px;text-decoration:-webkit-letterpress"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:17px;text-decoration:-webkit-letterpress">Cheers,</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:17px;text-decoration:-webkit-letterpress">Maia</span></div>
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