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Jack Martin Leith and I had a chat once about icebreakers. He (also a facilitator) said he didn't li…
Posted on March 3rd, 2008 at 2:37am —
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Breaking Free
I have looked to the groups of central and eastern Europe and found too much of our own theatre wanting. For theirs is a Theatre of the Heart, a drama of the soul, s stage of tears and laughter alike, of hate, love, loss and renewal. Of blood and fire. Of the family, the clan, the ancestors, of the madness of change, of loyalty and loss, of revolution, of being caged and breaking free, of soul-touch and conflict.
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Stepping into the moment
The hardest part is the easiest part: stepping into the moment before being in the moment. In that blink of an eye before the now, what are we doing? If we are plotting the next blink, planning the instant to follow, are we improvising at all?
Stepping over the precipice and finding we do no fall, held in the mid-air of the emerging now, by our own willed playfulness.
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Posted on February 6th, 2008 at 3:29am —
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Insipid Positivity
"It is an art to dream a dream, a science to dream an illusion"
"It is so often the insane who pronounce the sane mad."
"The greatest cruelty is to target an honest person for being honest."
One strategy for justifying any almost any action is to employ the language of law. Clever arguments are brought forth in the name of sincerity.
One example of this is the dogmatic use of "positivity" as an antidote to any personal action that causes pain and hur…
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Just wondering if you are going to the conference in Trondheim. Kerstin Gauffin and I were talking about who we would like as a "behind the scenes - feedback team" - to keep the Trondheim conference on track in terms of reflecting the honest needs and reactions of the participants. We are calling it HELL JUDGES based on the lesser known Theatresports tradition where company members would watch the audience as the show was going on and signal the judges when the crowd was no longer interested in the work on stage.
If you are coming, we would deffinitely want you to join us.
shawn
The day can be engaging and real for trainees and workshop participants. Yet ultimately they become compliant, simply "behaving themselves" and serving more the needs of the facilitator to "run the session" than really serving their own and their organisation's needs.
Does groupthink arise? Do participants learn that, if they respond in certain ways, they are rewarded with smiles and encouragement. If they challenge too much or make things difficult, they tend to be labelled asd trouble makers and singled out through selective discussion and questioning?
If the forum theatre scripts are to pre-planned, too contrived, too "off the shelf", there is a danger that the resulting exploration of "issues" will be pushed along pre-existing "rails of meaning", rather than enabling emergent learning.
What do you think?