Not to take anything away from what you all have done (wonderful!!!) But I do have to say that Open Space and Dance have been together for a long time, if there ever was a time that they separated. Which I doubt! One participant/friend early on said, "I have been to a lot of programs that HAD a dance, but this one IS a dance!" Thanks!
Harrison Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, Maryland 20854 Phone 301-365-2093 Skype hhowen Open Space Training www.openspaceworld.com Open Space Institute www.openspaceworld.org Personal website www.ho-image.com OSLIST: To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives Visit: www.listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html -----Original Message----- From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of can uludag Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 4:33 PM To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Subject: OPEN 'SPACE'- DANCE Hello Space List! :-) We have organised an Ost event in İstanbul last Saturday, It was on Youth, Businesslife and Transformation and took place at İstanbul Bilgi University. It was a part of a youth festival which gathered communities with a sense of joy and responsibility. The one day event started with a music and dance performance, a dancer and a musician met for the first time and improvised . This was like a market place of 2 people. People who watched them could attend the performance after a while. The dancer helped people to do some exercises which were funny and relaxing. The dance was a bit like Tetsuro Fukuharas Space dance.. . I dont know if Fukuhara was ever discussed at this list. In 2002 i met him in Istanbul when I was directing a culture and art programme at a tv channel, I interviewed with him and attended to his workshops . I can say, what he is into is really Open Space - Making Peace with the space with dance! This is the second time we organise an OST event this way, and the result is really interesting. I want to share that most of the people found it very useful, before the discussions, making peace with the space, and their bodies relaxed them and they enjoyed a lot. Today an attendant told me that it was the first time for her to express all that she wanted in a meeting and told that after the event she couldnt sleep all night. She said i wanted to dance all night, i was very creative and talkative, now the people wish to see me like that all the time. I also participated the dance. After the whole event, we were very tired, i came home and thought that i would just sleep, but i watched Tv, done some work, and i was like i haven't done anything. (Coincidentally or not, when i came home i watched Nadia Komanachis documentary about gymnastics, a documentary on 50ies Sports life in Spain, and a part of the movie Solaris of Tarkovsky. :-))))) After dance, people discussed about these.. we guess dance inspires a lot. a summary... Free Body, Free mind. Being in our body at business. New styles at business. The firms who let their workers do nothing for some hours What makes us want to sleep more The eating disorders The global village The system, the way we look at the what we call as systems, transformation of our way of look The main problem as production . Are we crazy about producing The artistic and intellectual production The movie the Sunny Mondays Our only job is living! Why do we live to work? Post modernism New styles at businesslife. Would the new styles become a controlling mechanism after a while. The technological improvements and the decrease of our body performance. Why are we responsible to know more than our main branch of interest. What happened when the Marxist movement couldn't get the result. Bohemia, tramps.. Paris passage issue. The production being exhibited. Fashion and business. The supermarket scenes. The movies of natural disasters. The advertisement that want us to believe we choose The need for relationship The jobs that are peaceful The global village Cultures of peace The negative sides of Andersen's tales The 50s, the health Open Space Technology You can have a look at some of the photos of the first Ost event we did this way, with kadikoyweb, an internet company. It was after a short movie festival. The first part of the event took part at the movie theather, after watching the movies people watched a dance performance, and they were called to participate the dancer and go for some exercises to open their senses. It was a very productive ost event and some people who hated eachother before communicated like old friends :-) http://www.kadikoyweb.com/acikalan/hakkinda.htm Best wishes Can Uludag Ps. 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