MAPP SUNDAY DISCUSSION GROUP/ communicating your ideas
Sandra
MAPP SUNDAY DISCUSSION GROUP/ Communicating your ideasI would like shortly reflect Sunday's night very strong and engaged debate and I was really happy I was part of that discussion. We were talking about communicative ideas, trust, patterns, using languages to understand better each others, using tools and other useful communicators which help us to enter into deeper communications in our case in dance, performing, doing art, working with kids, adults, etc. I agree with Lucian when he said that during this approach we need to be flexible and open and we need to find a way to communicate and through diversity is the best way to reach out to the others and find according to Peter Thomas our own voice, through exploring our thoughts and generating new ideas. I would add, that we need to find our own tool or patterns how to make a valuable step and give yourself to the others, no matter what you are doing. This is how I see how we can gain the trust, through reflection, honest conversation and flexible mind. In my 4th aol I am writing about communicating through performance and I would also reflect Rhoda's opinion about how we should use simple and concise language to explain the Others what is on our mind BUT we need to adapt ourselves to the others, change habits, repattern our point of view if possible even more than once, using emotional intelligence which includes self-awareness, impulse control, empathy, etc..Using experiential learning is also very helpful, or Moon is talking about unlearning which can be more important than learning. "Flexibility and openness to the possibility of mistake and error can be important in learning" (Moon, 2004, 113). In my language there is a saying that explains well this matter that "you are worth as much languages you speak". I am referring here on every knowledge, everyday experience, any language, even body language, or cue. From this point of view I am talking here as a performer (like in my 4th aol) and I would highlight my communication, cooperation through performance which is going through the audience and according to Allan Kaprow (famous American conceptual artist and painter) how this degree of openness makes an ordinary watching and listening very distinct from the specialized observation of a bodily non active audience. He is talking about "disembodies participation" which means that the art (I am talking here more about dance and performance) on the stage work for spectators only through interpretation and active collaboration through experienced insight. That makes a difference when the audience watch an action passively and when becomes an observers and being involved in active watching and listening, to be able to participate and to have power to change artistic work.
Used books for this blog:
MOON, J.A. (2004) A Handbook of Reflective and Experimental Learning: Theory and Practice, London Routledge
CULL, Laura. (2009) Deleuze and Performance. Deleuze connections, Edinburgh University Press.
