Good day at Shallal Dance Theatre today/yesterday,
finally forming our responses to new music choices and starting more large paintings and a poem written and ideas landing...
answering an email today i found old links to ideas we work with all the time
Yes could do a workshop in a small form in smaller spaces as a lesson in adaptation and working in different spaces. could be drawing and dance, sound /word we could just see where it goes?
we often work many art forms in same session
Moveable feast was a residential workshop offered at Dartington some years ago, one of the main people put forward the idea as Workshop as art form and i read about it as i hadn't attended it - my then Shallal Dance Theatre working partner Phil Jacobs did - it was multi arts event.
From that idea, as i have been running workshops for over 30 years i started looking at the process, and now it is similar to being in an art studio, the participants and their creativity are your materials and together we create work...it is not an 'us and them' but a 'we' a real in the moment collaboration and is quite scary but also freeing ( and hopefully fun) for everyone.
A third way: not individual, not collective, but person and community, recent podcast for R&D https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Colin and i often refer to it and it comes from experience, it might be of interest to other facilitators, skills are involved but are in a different emphasis to many 'teaching/sharing' workshops.
Also useful to consider and reflect on 5 stages of a workshop from The Five Part Session Dr Marcia Leventhal: warm up, release, theme, centring, closure. https://www.
A useful take away from a year, on a two year, postgraduate Dance Therapy course at Roehampton....many years ago
& Structure, Stimulus and Suggestion
A Moveable Feast
Published on Sep 30, 2003
A vivid description and analysis of Workshop’s distinctive features. Using a combination of narrative, explanation, and rumination, Tony Gee investigates the premise that Workshop is a distinctive creative form with its own politic, poetic and aesthetic.
Fantastic new participants to Newquay Pilot group and good to be working again with Sapphire.
Kerry J and Barbara came to visit Shallal 2, especially for Rita and Kerry to work together, and we hope to repeat it soon.
Learnt a lot from chatting with Jamie Moran and looking forward to chatting with Oliver Baines this week.
Podcasting make me slightly obsessive! and is quite time consuming in editing and caption checking etc but also a lot of fun!
It's quite a balance with that and new projects needing to land, but what i didn't add to the email was:
"Trust the Process" another major part of our approach
and ' don't get in the way' ( of it).
'The work works' if it isn't, that is where we need to reflect on our practice and try again, trust the (creative) process.
I often say to artists make friends with/get to know you own way of working there is no right or wrong way. What works for you? ( and is reasonably healthy.) We waste a lot of time trying to fit ourselves into other formats, how we think it 'should' be done, when we need to embrace our own style and way of creating/doing things, reflecting knowing your strengths, weaknesses, areas that need support etc and allow a sense of humour into the mix it helps to gently laugh at ourselves. Take ourselves lightly.
If you can have fun, then you can engage and trust, take risks, experiment, extend your practice.
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