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Yanique's avatar

I'm definitely going to check out Catsby at the clubhouse (aside for the dogmatic infection that seemed to infiltrate the space at the height of a generally fearful time) what a cool sounding community & experience! ahhhh play the rest ~ I like it. It conjures up ideas of moving deeper into the silence to find the sound or the stillness to find the movement. The unending paradoxes and persistent duality of it all. Congrats to Alan on winning the belt haha love the intensity of that photo🎉🎉 and that insight about judgement is absolute GOLD!! Wishing your foot a speedy recovery✨

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Julia Fae's avatar

I am so glad to hear you will check it out! It is the craziest and so fun. Hopefully, the sign on the door is gone, and with it the lingering fear! But I do understand it is decades if not centuries of programming and at the end we are all fleshy animal beings who respond to fear and social pressures in intense ways. Which in the end, is a huge part of what makes this sort of performance so riveting! You'll see how honest people can get about how they are moving through their immediate fears amidst these idiot performances. And how even as they are in fear they are holding themselves and the audience with such love (well, most are. the more effective performers at least hehe)

Moving deeper into the silence to find the sound, yes! Love that framing so much.

I hope your day is stupendous! Please report back about your experience when you do get a chance to catch one of these wild nights!

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Alan's avatar

My band director told us to play the rest because we'd see it on the page and we maybe decided seeing it was enough. But you got to do more than just acknowledge rest's existence I suppose.

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Julia Fae's avatar

Ah, yes. What a good example... the difference between seeing and doing. How often growth can stop at the observation stage. That's another DBT lesson, to observe and then describe. Often people are very skilled at observing and don't realize they fall short on their describing skills until they start working at them.

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