Sometimes when you are improvising with people, if someone plays loudly and not necessarily creatively, it poses a problem. Should you fight their contribution and insist on your sound instead? The music could then risk sounding less interesting or should you change your aesthetic and emphasize their values so at least the piece seems coherent. Had my last class the other day, halfway done the PhD. One of my classmates miffed with my presentation, didn’t believe how I echoed the ideas of the teacher because months ago, at the commencement of this course I didn’t agree with these ideas. It made the class difficult. I found things far from open and the hostility was depressing. Seemed the only way to travail in this place was to lie and echo these ideas instead of querying with my actual thoughts. So, I replied to my classmate you are incorrect about me and these are the ideas I stand behind. One would be forgiven to assume this is a PhD in theatre.