{"id":15739,"date":"2019-08-09T08:20:10","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T13:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=15739"},"modified":"2019-08-09T08:33:38","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T13:33:38","slug":"always-nina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/09\/always-nina\/","title":{"rendered":"and always nina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nina Simone &quot;Feelings&quot; (Montreux Jazz Festival)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mH5ZE3N8cxU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>recommendations from <a href=\"https:\/\/thecreativeindependent.com\/people\/playwright-and-artist-taylor-mac-on-not-waiting-for-permission\/?utm_source=Daily&amp;utm_campaign=1e1987f5f1-tcidaily&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_3742c429c9-1e1987f5f1-179407449\">taylor mac&#8217;s creative independent interview<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And always <a href=\"https:\/\/thecreativeindependent.us13.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=38d5cc281b5e40a148715dbb5&amp;id=99fb9c96e2&amp;e=19cb6e7338\">Nina Simone<\/a>. Always Nina.<\/p>\n<p>That video of her doing \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thecreativeindependent.us13.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=38d5cc281b5e40a148715dbb5&amp;id=71adb3b450&amp;e=19cb6e7338\">Feelings<\/a>\u201d? Oh god, it\u2019s so good. That cheesy song and she makes it just the most profound thing ever. And investing all of her heart and she\u2019s not judging it. That\u2019s the thing I love about it that I wish artists and audiences would understand more\u2014the profundity isn\u2019t the job of the writer, the profundity is the job of the audience and the performer. She didn\u2019t judge the material, she didn\u2019t expect the material to change for her, she changed for the material. She understood that somebody had to go through some serious heartbreak to write a song that suggests that they want to live without feelings. She went hunting for the profundity instead of expecting the profundity to be fed to her. That\u2019s what I think audiences don\u2019t understand about theater. They\u2019ve been trained to expect it to be handed to them instead of understanding that they have come to do the work and to be collaborators. That\u2019s what we try to do with <em>24 Decades<\/em>\u2014to inspire people to engage in a perpetual consideration as opposed to simple decision making of \u201cI like it, I dislike it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>recommendations from taylor mac&#8217;s creative independent interview: And always Nina Simone. Always Nina. That video of her doing \u201cFeelings\u201d? Oh god, it\u2019s so good. That cheesy song and she makes it just the most profound thing ever. And investing all of her heart and she\u2019s not judging it. That\u2019s the thing I love about it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15739"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15741,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15739\/revisions\/15741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}