Susan Hope is professional musician, trained dancer and freelance educator. Her research focuses on developing individuals' creative process skills, through performer training in bowed string instruments, movement and voice. Her practice-as-research project is expanding her longtime teaching work into a performing arts pedagogy, and she is currently working as an independent coach and consultant. Contributions to this part-time self-funded degree can be made at www.giftofcollege.com/Profile/susanhope/ and the entire project followed @whatmakesmagic. Her professional music and dance work has spanned two decades, the continental U.S., and a wide range of settings. Her unique teaching methods developed while teaching private lessons, directing original theater productions, leading workshops at children's museums, and producing visiting artist projects. I'm offering services via phone, email and virtual meetings, while focusing on doing research for this graduate degree. I'd be happy to review and give feedback on your performance video/audio. I also offer coaching for teachers and for students. As a composer, choreographer, performer and director, I began wondering why sometimes audience members commented on their “magical” experiences. I devised projects to test theories about how this happens (and why it sometimes doesn’t happen). This led to a formal research proposal that took ten years to write, which developed into this practice-based academic research and ever more questions!