Finding the FLOW in Real Time- Colonial Circus
#170 Days to Toronto Fringe 2024: Colonial Circus
We were talking about what happened to us during two of our recent performances and if we felt that we were in ‘flow’, in some moments? And if yes, can we summon ‘flow’ again and again?
Flow- A state of focus in which a person is completely immersed and engrossed in their work. Being in Flow is like playing jazz; it happens to you, rather than you trying for things to happen. And you may use your skills to the best of your abilities in those moments, keeping your ego on the side.
That sense of fluidity between your body and mind, when time just flies by.
Welcome to Two.2.Mango’s Days to Fringe — a thread where we journal our journey of Colonial Circus- a clown- bouffon- comedy show at Toronto Fringe in July 2024.
Csikszentmihalyi said in a 2004 TED Talk: “There’s this focus that, once it becomes intense, leads to a sense of ecstasy, a sense of clarity: you know exactly what you want to do from one moment to the other; you get immediate feedback.”
This is also in tunes with what we have learnt through our ‘Ready to Receive’ mode:
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We clocked these things:
Shreya: Being in the body to begin with, helped me not to be in my head.
Sachin: I gave my ego something to work on — finding and gloating with the smart and artsy films’ names, ‘looking good’!!!
Shreya: Low stakes, we did not know anyone in that audience.
Sachin: Being able to follow with body, without a fixed set of steps to follow.
Now, these are our current states of being. We may totally evolve from here on, the list may add new learnings and aware nesses while others may stand redundant.
It shall be some feat, if we can summon the FLOW at our will, everytime we appear on stage.
Lights On.
Flow On-going.
-Sachin & Shreya
