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30 Aug

Posted at 13:24h in Community Organizing, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming, Speaking Engagements, Vygotsky

The Future of Performance Psychology in Japan—what a privilege to be part of creating such a thing! In mid-August I made my third trip to Japan to share the methodology of social therapeutics with Japanese psychologists and educators. It was very exciting and gratifying to witness how people I had worked...

27 Oct

Posted at 15:58h in Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Español/Spanish, Play, Politics, Psychology of Becoming, Speaking Engagements, Theatre

Dan Friedman (artistic director of the Castillo Theatre and associate dean of UX) and I were in Bogota Colombia last week at the invitation of former mayor Antanas Mockus and his organization Corpovisionarois. We were both keynote speakers at their International Conference on Citizenship Culture. This years theme was "Another...

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....

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,...

26 Sep

Posted at 01:27h in Applied Theatre, Clowning, Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Education, Health Care, Human Development, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Play, Politics, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Theatre, Youth Development

September 24, 2012 Today I’m going to do some more promotion for Performing the World 2012 (PTW 2012)—because I’m so excited about it! The opening reception on Thursday evening October 4 will be a community welcome to New York—featuring food prepared by dozens of New York City friends; greetings by myself and...

16 Aug

Posted at 19:37h in Applied Theatre, Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Learning Environments, Performance Movement, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Theatre

August 16, 2010 My good friend Dan Friedman has written a paper I highly recommend. Entitled “Theatre for Nothing,” the paper delineates how theatre is being instrumentalized, especially in relation to social change efforts. Dan urges that politically oriented theatre activists recognize the stifling effect this is having on the potential...