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THE TYRANNY OF THE TALENTED (or, Practice Makes Perfect)
“The artist is not a special sort of person, but each
person is a special sort of artist.” - A.K. Coomaraswamy
When we gather to participate in the live, improvisational arts, we
do not expect that there will be “experts” or “virtuosos”
to do the dancing or the acting for us. Each of us acknowledges the wealth
of material that naturally exists inside of us, and seeks simply to uncover
it, consistently dissolving the internal Critic and Censor implanted in
us by a society overly-focused on control. Each of us takes the responsibility
for experiencing art for ourselves, recognizing the notion that art is
only for the “talented” as a lie. Art is a practice and a
learned skill, not a mysterious gift given only to a precious few. And,
like any skill, the more we practice, the better we become at doing it.
We recognize that if the community is to benefit, we cannot continue
to hand over our intuitive sense of health and how to heal, of right and
wrong, of aesthetics and innovation—in short, we cannot continue
to hand over our power to “the experts.” We must trust ourselves
to act now, individually and in community, on our own behalves. This is
end of the age of the expert, and the beginning of the age of the intuitive
and the cooperative.
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