The Three Weeks I Spent in Arts Heaven

by Mayumi Lashbrook, Canada
Dancer-in-Residence, January 2020

Along with other artists from around the world, I attended L'AiR Arts residency in Paris, France. The main premise of the residency was revisiting the communal energy and intercultural exchange that was alive in Paris in the 1920s. L’AiR Arts masterfully brought a group of artists together 100 years later to do exactly that; socialize. I am incredibly grateful for what each of them taught me and saw in me, which I can now see in myself. I  have come to learn that I am always in process. Ever-changing, ever-evolving and continually growing. L'AiR showed me how to be in love with that evolution, giving up striving for an end goal or finished product. 

Read the full 5-part reflection piece in which Mayumi shares what she learned, what inspired her the most, many practical takeaways, and much more!