After field feedback from choreographers and dancers, we’ve added a new section to The Choreography of Connection guide. “Before You Begin — How to Read This Framework” helps clarify how structure and freedom work together inside the piece, ensuring every artist feels invited, not instructed.

Why We Added “Before You Begin” to The Choreography of Connection

When we first released The Choreography of Connection into the Alliance library, we described it as a framework, not a script. But as choreographers, dancers, and multidisciplinary artists began workshopping it, a clear pattern emerged: even experienced creatives felt that the document was telling them what to do.

It wasn’t the intent — yet it was easy to see why it happened.

The guide is richly detailed. It includes time periods, geographies, sensory cues, and emotional anchors for each movement. To many readers, that completeness felt like direction. Specificity reads as instruction, even when freedom is explicitly stated.

So we made a small but important addition: a new opening section called “Before You Begin — How to Read This Framework.”

It explains what The Choreography of Connection truly is:
a map of possibility, not a prescription.

The new section clarifies that the first four ingredients of each movement — Where We Are, What’s Happening, What Begins to Disconnect, and Primary Sensory Anchor — are grounded in historical truth and remain fixed to preserve integrity. The remaining four — Imagery, Movement, Sound, and Lighting — are examples, not mandates. They demonstrate one way the piece could live, while inviting every artist to find their own.

By adding this preface, we hope to dissolve the subtle tension between structure and freedom — allowing creators to feel what the framework was meant to evoke all along: collaboration through interpretation.

That’s what the Creative Humanity Alliance is built for — a space where frameworks hold the history, and artists bring it to life in their own voice.

Call to Action

If you’ve already downloaded The Choreography of Connection, please revisit it and read the new Before You Begin section.
And if you’re part of a dance company, performance group, or teaching program that might want to explore this framework, we’d love to hear from you.

Let’s keep refining together — because every act of collaboration strengthens the work we share.