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Augmenting lifelong performance with deliberate practice

December 26, 2013 by SharpBrains

Alums-danceWith Will­ing Spir­it, a Reprise for Ailey Dancers (The New York Times):

  • “The voice on the phone belonged to Masazu­mi Chaya, the asso­ciate artis­tic direc­tor of Alvin Ailey Amer­i­can Dance The­ater, and he had a star­tling propo­si­tion. Would she — Eliz­a­beth Rox­as-Dobr­ish, 55 years old, for­mer Ailey super­star and cur­rent arti­fi­cial-hip own­er — come out of retire­ment to dance at a spe­cial per­for­mance on New Year’s Eve? …“Are you kid­ding me?” she respond­ed. No, he was not kid­ding, and even­tu­al­ly the answer was yes, she would do it. And it was yes, too, for a hand­ful of oth­er Ailey alum­ni who received sim­i­lar calls…
  • Robert Bat­tle, Ailey’s artis­tic direc­tor, said the dancers were of course being held to a high stan­dard, but the spir­it was just as impor­tant as rel­a­tive per­fec­tion. “Maybe they might feel that they can’t do it exact­ly the way they did, but maybe that’s not the point,” he said. “The point is to be where they are.”

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Peak Performance Tagged With: dance, deliberate practice, retirement

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