Has anyone ever used OS as a tool for creating a piece of theatre? I spent some glorious time today with about 30 actors, directors, musicians, designers and writers, using open space to explore and devise a piece of storytelling.
We don¹t yet know if it will continue to involve all of us, or maybe just a few. Next Saturday we have another session, and some people will be the same, and some will be new, and some from today will not be there next time. We don¹t know if it will end up being theatre, or a novel, or a short story, or all of those things. It was instigated by a brilliant writer/performer/director (Phelim & Matilda know her well!) and many of us have multiple skills like that. What I loved was that it didn¹t matter what we all do: we all did everything today. I got to play actor games that I don¹t ever get to play, and usually terrify me, but today I enjoyed them as part of the wide creative process and I knew that the Law of Two Feet would allow me to stop anytime I wanted. So I was free to carry on! I loved the way the principles of Open Space allowed for the seed of an idea to be exploded into all manner of marvellous imaginings. Has anyone else ever experienced such a thing, or heard about it? Also, my first time running an OS conference is this coming week, Tuesday - Thursday! Very excited :-) Jen x Jenifer Toksvig [email protected] * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
