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[BareTrees@xxxxxxx]

>Well, as a choreographer, I know that I forget my own dances.  The other
>dancers know it alot better than I do.  If it's a solo, I usually end up
>improving at least part of it cause I forgot what goes there, or I mess
>up the order, or I confuse it with another dance entirely.  If I don't
>write it down and/or have a video, it won't stay in my head any longer
>than the performance.  However, when I learn other people's works, it
>sticks in my head forever.  I can still do dances I learned 10 years
>ago.   And, I know I'm not the only choreographer that this happens to,
>it's fairly common as far as I can tell.  I don't know why, but it may
>be related to why Robert cant' remember lyrics.

>I think it is.  The creator of a work goes through at least several,
>sometimes many, versions in the process of composing it.  All those versions
>remain somewhere in the back of his or her mind--and besides that, new ones
>may continue to crop up long after the "final" version is supposedly
>committed to permanence.  No wonder the lyricists or choreographers can
>remember other people's works better than their own.

i completely agree. i write so much - but i couldn't recite one of my poems if
you put a gun to my head. but i remember the poems that i had to learn back in
third grade. you get a block because you're always messing with the original.
i only remember the simplest things i write.

love
carly