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On a frigid city wind-swept Saturday evening, December 15th (ahead the season's first Nor 'easter), on East 3rd Street, The Lower East Side, New York City, we closed out Angel Heart.

While it was only a 3 day run, I'm always eternally grateful for these small off-Off-Broadway performance opportunities, and I try to work as hard as I can because I get a chance to put into full practice the training I'm getting and all the time, effort, and $$ I'm putting into that training -- it completes the circle, so to speak, of growth, of activating one's inner talent and aptitude:

. . . Anson Dorrance [...] as head coach of the University of North Carolina women's soccer team, The Tar Heels, [and] his associate Bill Palladino, shaped one of the most dominate sports programs in the history of professional or collegiate sports. The North Carolina program helped the United States dominate women's soccer globally, winning the inaugural woman's world cup in China in 1991.

. . . rival [coaches said] Dorrance's teams won because he had the best athletes [but] Dorrance argued just the opposite -- that there were habits that activated talent and made it more potent. He set out to create structures and routines that would build [and support "talent"]. (Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Confidence, page 48).

While I think I did my best (in terms of breathing and listening, responding, being in the moment, it was the best work I've done so far) the production was challenging for a couple of reasons: