ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with descriptive models of the creative operations of choreography and of the kinds of intentions that choreographers commonly use to launch and sustain new works. It presents three facilitation practices: Creative Process Mentoring reveals and clarifies relationships between and among artistic intentions, work-making practices, and emergent forms/meanings. In working with artists interested in exploring ideas unfastened from traditional values and approaches, some facilitators may try to nudge the project back toward the perceived safe harbor of traditional works or ways of working. Choreographers' fears, doubts, and uncertainties often manifest as harsh internal judgments that can shake creative confidence. Each case is different, so a good facilitator carries no preconceptions about how much and what kinds of critical activity are needed. The important thing is to see how each choreographer's critical behavior clarifies and nurtures rehearsal, or undermines it.
