Choreographing Connection
Choreographing Connection is Lynn Panting’s professional practice blog, offering reflections on her artistic work and the arts sector at large. Through her lens as a director, choreographer, and intimacy professional, she shares think pieces, resources, strategies, and insights that speak to the evolving landscape of the performing arts.
Dream Devised
Dream Devised is a movement-based, ensemble-driven adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream that explores how devising can open Shakespeare’s text to new creative possibilities.
At the root of the project were two connected questions:
How can we challenge some of the traditional hierarchies of the rehearsal room?
And, how can we invite more people into the work?
Nothing Good Gets Away: A Reflection on Practice
Because I’ve been working with these performers for years there is a shorthand between us. The piece came together in two and a half hours.
What I’m recognizing now is that is because of practice.
Trusting that the work you’ve done doesn’t disappear. It accumulates and sharpens. It reveals itself when you need it.
Nothing good gets away.