Universities are melting pots of creative, bright and idealistic young people – they have the potential to be hotbeds of innovation. Those specialising in performing arts training need to take this seriously...
Business is full of talk about collective or shared leadership, as if they were new. But these are things we have old wisdom about in the arts....
Making music supports the quality of life of older people, research I've been involved in, now freely available, provides compelling evidence.....
Voices of the artist in society - "All real life is meeting" (Martin Buber)
Rehearsing, performing, making – inspiration from Richard Sennett and a visit to De Baak in the Netherlands
So why should you be interested in Learning in and through the Performing Arts?
The collaborative processes of the performing arts open a pandora's box of possibilities for artistic, personal and organizational development. They are subtle and multi-layered, embodied practices that can yield much more than what individuals bring to them, creatively and in terms of human exchange. My work is about continuing to develop these processes for the twenty-first century, so that artists can adapt to their changing contexts and enable their work to take root as creative entrepreneurs, and so that the processes of the arts can be shared and enhanced through exchange with other disciplines and across cultural contexts.