What's going through my head right now #1

A lot is happening in my life at the moment. I have new opportunities in my artistic work, I'm starting new professional projects and my private situation is changing (nonetheless, it's just a change of location). All of this happens every day, even on weekends.

I've had the same routines every day for over a decade, always travelling back and forth between Augsburg and Zurich every week and always working a lot. That gave me a structure that I could follow. My personal and professional lives were always intertwined. A lot of time has passed since Miduca AG cancelled the collaboration with me as Artistic Director at the HF Bühnentanz in Zurich a good year ago. I'm doing well and I'm looking to the future. I have published short videos on social media in which I reflect on dancing and writing. I also launched my newly designed website and took care of myself. That's how I found out what my own thoughts, visions and responsibilities really are.

I realised that it was a big change for me to no longer have so many commitments and to no longer have so much responsibility for others. I no longer had to constantly offer solutions, alternatives, compromises and leadership. I got used to being able to organise my life without these attributes.

For me, ‘freedom’ in this context means that I don't stand still where fate (or chance) takes me, but can decide for myself where, how much and how I move forward. Not at all. Dancing, thinking, writing, talking, exchanging ideas, being alone, being together, not feeling the pressure of time, countering haste with thoughtfulness and living a form of serenity, starting anew every day, is simply beneficial.

I can only recommend it.

Yours sincerely, Jochen