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Performance Movement

25 Feb

Posted at 14:44h in Applied Theatre, Clowning, Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Education, Human Development, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Play, Politics, Publications, Training/Classes, What's New

[caption id="attachment_2074" align="aligncenter" width="478"] New Book and Coffee Cup[/caption]   I was so pleased to see this new book in the mail yesterday that I took a photo of it. Performance Studies in Motion originated in a 2010 conference at the University of Haifa: RS and PS: Richard Schechner and Performance Studies....

20 Feb

Posted at 18:07h in Creativity, Culture, Events, Human Development, Performance Movement, Play, Speaking Engagements, Training/Classes, What's New

    I'll be playing "Development Tour Guide" once again this coming May 16-18 as I lead another Discover Development NYC weekend. It's a unique small-group experience in seeing and making culture in one of the world's most vibrant cities. Contact Melissa Meyer at mmeyer@eastsideinstitute.org if you're interested.   Click here for more information.     ...

04 Jan

Posted at 19:52h in Creativity, Education, I Like This, Learning Environments, Performance Movement, Play, What's New

Hats off to Rachel Berstein for writing Communication: Spontaneous Scientists in the January 1, 2014 issue of Nature. Featured in the article along with funny man and improv devotee Alan Alda, is cell biologist Raquel Holmes, who began her business improvscience while a student in the program I run, The International Class....

25 Oct

Posted at 13:49h in Creativity, Culture, Education, Human Development, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming

October 26, 2013 If you think that creativity, play and imagination are vital to personal and social transformation, then I have some folks you need to meet—Steve Dahlberg and Mary Alice Long. Steve is director of the Connecticut-based International Centre for Creativity and Imagination,  which applies creativity to improve the well-being of individuals, organizations...

23 Jul

Posted at 15:31h in Applied Theatre, Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Human Development, Performance Movement, Play, Politics, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Theatre

July 23, 2013 Last month I spent my Wednesday evenings in conversation on the topic of “Performance Activism.” I was co-leading a short course in the East Side Institute’s Revolutionary Conversation series. My partner was Dan Friedman, who is a theatre historian, artistic director of the Castillo Theatre and, with me,...

02 May

Posted at 19:34h in Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Play, Politics, Psychology of Becoming, Youth Development

May 2, 2013 "Radically accepting the poverty of one’s own life and community while simultaneously depersonalizing it makes possible a certain kind of growth/development – especially if one is simultaneously involved in activities that engage the underdevelopment that accompanies poverty." [caption id="attachment_1506" align="alignleft" width="204"] Lenora B. Fulani[/caption] So says Dr. Lenora Fulani in...

20 Dec

Posted at 03:02h in Applied Theatre, Culture, Performance Movement, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapy, Theatre, Youth Development

December 19, 2012 “A lot rides on our capacity to be who we’re not.” So remarked Christine LaCerva, director of The Social Therapy Group and the East Side Institute’s clinical training. Christine was one of six who I assembled to address the topic, “The Therapeutic Power of Performance,” at a plenary session...

16 Dec

Posted at 16:53h in Creativity, Human Development, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Play, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Theatre, Vygotsky, Youth Development

December 16, 2012 I was in Serbia last week. I crammed a lot into four days and it was well worth it. I’ve been going to Serbia once a year for more than a decade and each time I experience the joy of people supporting other people to develop and, at...

17 Oct

Posted at 14:54h in Applied Theatre, Creativity, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Theatre

October 17, 2012 “Schools for growth—ones where developmental learning occurs—are much more like theatrical stages than classrooms." I wrote those words, in 1997, as the opening sentence of my book, Schools for Growth: Radical Alternatives to Current Educational Models. Fifteen years later, I believe it even more strongly. As school becomes more...