Charlotte Edmonds
Freelance Dance Artist, Choreographer, Director & Co-Founder of Move Beyond Words
The voice of her Gremlin:
“Dont speak, you’ll embarrass yourself”
Over time, my Gremlin has made me cautious and I don’t want to be cautious when creating art.
It can make me apologetic and anxious. I have learnt that sometimes it helps to reveal my 'inner critic's' thinking to someone as it alleviates my anxiety manifesting inside; ultimately making me feel calmer
I feel like we often mark our success against age and I don’t think that’s helpful.
My Gremlin can have positive attributes as the tentative nature makes me reflective and think things through a little deeper.
I looked back recently at how I conducted and facilitated spaces. I noticed that I copied people that are very different to me. I have a different presence, a different process and I tried to replicate their way of doing something and it really didn’t work. I suppose I was just trying to see if what made their process successful would work for mine
In the end, I realised I needed to look inwards rather than out.