When it comes to magic — or, for that matter, acting — Great, the veteran performer, puts it best: "Practice makes genius".
Martin handles this element deftly, playing down the conceit of the artist as genius and bringing the practice of art into a real world that mixes plenty of grit into its dreams.
None of this genius is evident in practice; none of it at all.
They are co-authors of Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation, just published by Harvard Business Review Press.
Tells about architect Gaudi presiding genius of Barcelona, who practiced architecture around the city for 50 yrs.
So it went.What was he up to? "The practice of a genius is complicated," Mr Elderfield observes.
Depending on your vantage point, the film either endorses the 10,000 hour theory written about by Malcolm Gladwell and others (the idea that genius is achieved by relentless practice) or demolishes it.
In his ironic, deadpan way, he lampoons contemporary art theory, sending up the artist as genius and reducing art's practices to absurdity, once even promising to stop making boring art in a way that was, frankly, boring.
But in a large group that expresses the hard modernist core of his genius, the dancers wear only stylized versions of practice dress in black and white.
This paradoxical practice accounts for much of Sondheim's technical genius.
