Hi Phelim,
It's wonderful to hear of your work.
Best wishes with Devoted and Disgruntled.
Pop in if/when you are in Australia next year for worldwork.
And feel free to set up a Devoted and Disgruntled event in Melbourne
(Sydney too if you like).
Let me know if I can help.
I'd love to experience Open Space and Process Work in a theatre
situation.
Your metaphor of parallel worlds is useful for me.
Comparisons are tricky, but tempting to make in the absence of
another way to express the apparent connections and similarities
between Process Work (POP), Open Space and Ortho-Bionomy.
I can feel at home in and enjoy many situations of chaos, but still
find some wilder expressions of it a bit nerve wracking.
It's to do with personal learning, I think.
Cheerio,
Allison.
On 24/11/2005, at 4:32 AM, Phelim McDermott wrote:
Hi there,
My name is Phelim McDermott I'm a theatre practitioner with a
theatre co. called "improbable" Three years ago i was awarded a
NESTA felowship to research connections between theatre
improvisation and Worldwork/processwork techniques. I've done a
considerable amount of training in Processwork over the last ten
years and have been fascinated by the connections between the group
ensemble impro and worldwork. Recently i have got verty excited in
OST> i've attended a number of worldwork events and and am
fascintated by open space.. I'm sure there are many connections. I
have found worldwork incredibly useful in my work in institutions
and with large groups. I went to worldwork in Athens and in the
states last year.. i'm hoping to get to Australia in april where it
happens next.
There are some extraordinary challenging things about worldwork or
POP sometimes it looks like chaos sometimes like some of the best
theatre I've ever seen. I think that the commitment to explore
hotspots in worldwork makes for an intense crucible which perhaps
doesnt happen in the same way in OST but i'm a naive in that
territory until i have done our open space event in January.. I'm
so intereested that there are people wishing to make connections
between these two paradigms. my guess is that visiting these
different worlds informs the other and they are like parallel
worlds... a bit like the performance/workshop worlds which exist in
parallel feeding essential things to each other. Once you've been
cooked in a worldwork process chaos can become like home.
phelim
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Improbable?s Open Space event
DEVOTED AND DISGRUNTLED
What are we going to do about theatre?
A two-day event, 7th and 8th January 2006, 10am ? 7pm
At National Youth Theatre, 443-445 Holloway Road, London, N7 6LW
Email whatarewegoingtodoaboutthea...@improbable.co.uk for more
info and registration details
Improbable, 4th Floor, 43 The Aldwych, London, WC2B 4DN, 020 7240
4556, off...@improbable.co.uk, www.improbable.co.uk
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