Pablo Picasso once famously said, “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” My teaching philosophy is founded upon my certainty that anything a student imagines or visualizes strongly enough can ultimately be realized if they remain open to their most natural instincts and talents and allow their bodies to be directed by their own imaginations. In other words, technique must always be discovered and honed through the creative process and never the other way around.
Every student is unique. Some students reason primarily in the abstract. Some learn best through example, whilst others only truly connect kinaesthetically. Intelligences, talents and passions are as varied and divergent as the students who possess them and when I teach, my focus is solely on creating the circumstances from which each student’s individual capacities can best flourish and grow.
Human resources are much like natural resources; they are often buried deep. Student’s talents are rarely just lying around on the surface and I believe a teacher’s job is to discover the right pathway to unearth those artistic impulses so that each student can best reveal themselves.
I firmly believe that students can only truly uncover, harness and sculpt their innate potential when their teachers foster creativity, innovation and an environment where they can take risks and freely make mistakes. A student must never feel frightened to be wrong if they are ever to develop an original voice.
The interaction of different disciplinary ways of seeing and exploring musical theatre is as important than any singular focus on one’s chosen speciality and I try to foster in my students a ferocious and long lasting appetite for investigation into all areas of the arts, the sciences and most of all, their own potential.
Daniel Bowling
Every student is unique. Some students reason primarily in the abstract. Some learn best through example, whilst others only truly connect kinaesthetically. Intelligences, talents and passions are as varied and divergent as the students who possess them and when I teach, my focus is solely on creating the circumstances from which each student’s individual capacities can best flourish and grow.
Human resources are much like natural resources; they are often buried deep. Student’s talents are rarely just lying around on the surface and I believe a teacher’s job is to discover the right pathway to unearth those artistic impulses so that each student can best reveal themselves.
I firmly believe that students can only truly uncover, harness and sculpt their innate potential when their teachers foster creativity, innovation and an environment where they can take risks and freely make mistakes. A student must never feel frightened to be wrong if they are ever to develop an original voice.
The interaction of different disciplinary ways of seeing and exploring musical theatre is as important than any singular focus on one’s chosen speciality and I try to foster in my students a ferocious and long lasting appetite for investigation into all areas of the arts, the sciences and most of all, their own potential.
Daniel Bowling