Do the same show over and over and over and you’ll finally get to a point where your comfortable enough to start changing it up, to start calling some audibles.
Out of repetition comes variation.
But it’s most definitely important to start with a SHOW. Not just a ‘lets see what happens when we get up there’.
Start with a real, put together, planned out show, do it a bunch of times and then when the time is right you will have new ideas and instincts that develop and kick in and ping your brain and you will be able to implement and use them immediately.
The (perceived) constraints of a planned out show will, in the long run, give you the freedom and fulfillment you’ve always wanted from your show.
p.s. The idea that out of repetition comes variation may not apply universally. But it applies to creative people. Creative people are ultimately restless. Constantly looking for the the magic, even once its found. We know that magic doesn’t last, and that in it’s place comes restlessness, pursuit…and variation.
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