Originally Posted by
Goldenwings
I'm sure it's not very socionomical to say this, but ... this woman just sort of crackles quietly with a powerful mental energy. Her role in the businesses she has owned is to systematize. Her approach to choreography was similar--she sort of built up systems of movement that were highly conceptual and pristine but that audiences--and even other movement artists--often found impenetrable.
For her to be INTj would make me her benefactor, which on the face of it could seem odd for a mentor-mentee relationship (with me as mentee). But somehow it does make sense. Because I am very different from her ... she chose me as the principal dancer in her troupe, and her choreography was greatly changed when put on my body. She said at the time that she wanted to experiment in having me perform her work because I "wear my emotions just under my skin." She does not. From her, one gets no sense of rising and falling emotions, only of this mental prowess.
She had to reframe her work and develop a system for how to teach it to me, and through that process, her choreography became something different. Audiences were able to relate to it, where they had not been able to before. It became more human. In this way, I did something for her. And I'm sure I let her down sometimes by being a space cadet par excellence, but she tended to overlook that.
Still thinking about this ...