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210 | Brandon Ambrosino and improvisation, which is a welcome reminder that the best performances often feature a combination of both. Performing artists create within the con- fines of their or their director’s vision – but they create, which is to say, they bring forth something new. Always. Every time an artist performs a piece, she offers the world something that wasn’t already there. The meter for Young and Murphy’s piece was set, as were many of their choreographed time steps. Within those parameters, however, they were able to bring forth something new. There’s a lesson here, perhaps, for those of us struggling to find our cre- ativity in quarantine: the rhythm of our routine may be set in a predictable meter, but we are nevertheless capable of playing within those boundaries. As a dancer, it’s encouraging to see my colleagues experiment with new ways of being and making in a COVID world. As a human, it’s a welcome reminder that I, too, am being called upon to cultivate a life of beauty and goodness within the confines of the spaces I inhabit. Works & Process is a clear testimony to the virtually unlimited creative potential of the human soul, which often discovers itself within the movement of the sole. Bibliography The Guggenheim, 2020, Works & Process, the Performing Arts Series at the Guggenheim, An- nounces 2020–2021 Season, Press Release, 31 August 2020, https://www.guggenheim. org/press-release/works-process-the-performing-arts-series-at-the-guggenheim- announces-2020-2021-season [accessed 5 January 2021]. Florida, Richard / Seman, Michael, 2020, Lost Art: Measuring Covid-19’s Devastating Impact on America’s Creative Economy, The Brookings Institute, 11 August 2020, https://www. brookings.edu/research/lost-art-measuring-covid-19s-devastating-impact-on-americas- creative-economy/ [accessed 5 January 2021]. www.jrfm.eu 2021, 7/1, 205–210