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Practice and the Pandemic / Práctica y pandemia

It's temping to try to come up with a catchy blog post about my "practice" during the pandemic. After all, practice is a part of my DNA as a musician, teacher, producer and mom. Spending so many hours practicing singing and playing violin throughout college and beyond, I honed my skill of breaking down my musical work and building it back up better. I teach this to my voice students in lessons and coachings. As a public educator I have honed my personal practice during the pandemic learning trauma-informed, social-working soft skills and hard skills in Pear Deck, Jamboard, Google classrooms, Bitmoji classrooms, Audacity, iMovie, Pro Tools, Flipgrid, TikTok and probably 10 more platforms. As a mom my domestic practice has expanded to include endless meals, mediation and domestication (meditating while doing chores) and spending precious time getting to know my tween-age son on a deeper level in lockdown. I wonder if I would have completely missed out on knowing him so deeply if it hadn't been for the world tempo slowing to a crawl. As a producer, I've upped my game through developing zoomlationships with other theatre makers (TMS & TRU) and meeting creative teams over Zoom. Everything during the pandemic has been in a state of practice, not a finished product, fluid, shifting and re-shaping. It feels like I'm floating along without executing, performing or sharing a finished product in any area of my life. I know I'm not alone. I can rely on the fact that my practice in the art of practice keeps me sane in the challenge, struggle, beauty and simplicity of life right now.


Es tentador intentar crear una publicación de blog pegadiza sobre mi "práctica" durante la pandemia. Después de todo, la práctica es parte de mi ADN como música, maestra, productora y madre. Pasando tantas horas practicando canto y tocando el violín durante toda la universidad y más allá, perfeccioné mi habilidad de descomponer mi trabajo musical y reconstruirlo mejor. Enseño esto a mis estudiantes de voz en lecciones y entrenamientos Como educador público, he perfeccionado mi práctica personal durante la pandemia aprendiendo habilidades blandas y duras de trabajo social informadas por el trauma en Pear Deck, Jamboard, aulas de Google, aulas de Bitmoji, Audacity iMovie, Pro Tools, Flipgrid, TikTok y probablemente 10 plataformas más. Como madre, mi práctica doméstica se ha expandido para incluir interminables comidas, mediación y domesticación (meditar mientras hago las tareas del hogar) y dedicando un tiempo precioso a conocer a mi hijo adolescente en un nivel más profundo en el encierro. Me pregunto si me hubiera perdido por completo conocerlo tan profundamente si no hubiera sido porque el ritmo del mundo se ralentizó. Como productor, he mejorado mi juego desarrollando relaciones de zoom con otros creadores de teatro y reuniéndome con equipos creativos a través de Zoom. Todo durante la pandemia ha estado en un estado de práctica, no un producto terminado, fluido, cambiando y remodelando. Se siente como si estuviera flotando sin ejecutar, interpretar o compartir un producto terminado en ninguna área de mi vida. Sé que no estoy solo. Puedo confiar en el hecho de que mi práctica en el arte de la práctica me mantiene cuerdo en el desafío, la lucha, la belleza y la simplicidad de la vida en este momento.


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