Fringe Memories

The muses are all home from our Fringe adventure. We have settled back into our normal lives – back to work, family, bills, school. The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is becoming a memory, but we are all changed from the experience that we shared. There is a bond that comes from enduring a challenging and fulfilling experience together.

Our final show was probably our best. We closed our show to our biggest and most appreciative audience and we were all able to dance with that unique mixture of excitement but centered energy that happens when you are truly living in the moment.

There are things that we know we learned, and many of those are documented here in this blog. We learned to appreciate our own enthusiasm. We learned to celebrate how different we all are. We learned to manage our energy to make it through long, tiring days. Our dancing got deeper and more refined. As a whole, Fragment tends to relish big movement and overt emotion, but we found the quiet moments and the subtleties as we continued to perform the piece.

I’m sure every muse can say that they will each take something personal away from the Fringe experience. But I also think that there are subtle, subconscious and very deep ways that we have all grown and learned that we can’t articulate and that might change as our memory of Fringe alters with time. I still find myself humming our “Fragment chant” to myself and smiling with nostalgia. The chant means something different to me now than it did when we were barking it on the Royal Mile. And it will mean something different to me a year from now, but it will always mean something to each of us personally and to A Mused Collective…collectively. It is indelibly imprinted in our psyches.

So, we move on from Fringe but we take the experience with us. We will always be those  “buff babes from A Mused Collective (and one guy too)”. -Shelly