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https://orcid.org/0009-0001-4248-5769
Abstract
A dreamscape using pastiche is used for reflecting upon the value of creative-centred practice and research. Attending to the image through reflection and circumambulation offers entry to a centring practice. In holding both, a new image emerged. The dreamscape—an unexpected scene of cranes in joyous dance—unfolds as actual dream and offers a metaphor for understanding an arc within the dreamer’s life. In this condensed yet nuanced rumination, personal and professional, poetic and haptic, participating and witnessing blur. This practice, the way of the Crane, is timely because it introduces relational pedagogy and testimonial teaching for our times—while touching the pulse of life beyond human. An intrapsychic and interspecies image, the dream symbolizes the richness that breaks forth when holding complementary opposites in tension. It privileges somatic, relational, and creative-centred processes. It, too, signals the centrality of testimony and witnessing—potential companion enactments. This practice calls us to lean into the ancient wisdom of centring—illustrating the way the centre of the dance entwines with the centre of oneself and one’s work and the centre of the world.
Recommended Citation
Fidyk, alexandra Dr.
(2026)
"Attending the Way of the Crane: Centring Our Lives through Creative-Centred Work,"
Artizein: Arts and Teaching Journal: Vol. 10:
Iss.
1, Article 9.
Available at:
https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/atj/vol10/iss1/9
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