OPEN 'SPACE'- DANCE

Tue Dec 12 14:40:41 PST 2006

Not to take anything away from what you all have done (wonderful!!!) But I
do have to say that Open Space and Dance have been together for a long time,
if there ever was a time that they separated. Which I doubt! One
participant/friend early on said, "I have been to a lot of programs that HAD
a dance, but this one IS a dance!" Thanks!

Harrison

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From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of can uludag
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 4:33 PM
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Subject: OPEN 'SPACE'- DANCE

Hello Space List! :-)

We have organised an Ost event in İstanbul last Saturday,
It was on “Youth, Businesslife and Transformation” and took place at 
İstanbul Bilgi University.
It was a part of a youth festival which gathered communities with a sense of

joy and responsibility.

The one day event started with a music and dance performance, a dancer and a

musician met for the first time and improvised . This was like a market 
place of 2 people. People who watched them could attend the performance 
after a while. The dancer helped people to do some exercises which were 
funny and relaxing. The dance was a bit like Tetsuro Fukuhara’s Space 
dance.. . I don’t know if Fukuhara was ever discussed at this list.  In 2002

i met him in Istanbul when I was directing a culture and art programme at a 
tv channel, I interviewed with him and attended to his workshops .  I can 
say, what he is into is really Open Space  -  Making Peace with the space – 
with dance!

This is the second time we organise an OST event this way, and the result is

really interesting. I want to share that most of the people found it very 
useful, before the discussions, making peace with the space, and their 
bodies relaxed them and they enjoyed a lot.  Today an attendant told me that

it was the first time for her to express all that she wanted in a meeting 
and told that after the event she couldn’t sleep all night. She said “ i 
wanted to dance all night, i was very creative and talkative, now the people

wish to see me like that all the time.”
I also participated the dance. After the whole event, we were very tired, i 
came home and thought that i would just sleep, but i watched Tv, done some 
work, and i was like i haven't done anything. (Coincidentally or not, when i

came home i watched Nadia Komanachi’s documentary about gymnastics, a 
documentary on 50’ies Sports life in Spain,  and a part of the movie 
“Solaris” of Tarkovsky. :-)))))

After dance, people discussed about these.. we guess dance inspires a lot.  
a summary...

•	Free Body, Free mind. Being in our body at business.
•	New styles at business. The firms who let their workers do nothing
for 
some hours
•	What makes us want to sleep more
•	The eating disorders
•	The global village
•	The system, the way we look at the what we call as “systems”, 
transformation of our “way of look”
•	The main problem as “production” . Are we crazy about producing
•	The artistic and intellectual production
•	The movie “the Sunny Mondays”
•	Our only job is living! Why do we live to work?
•	Post modernism
•	New styles at businesslife. Would the new styles become a
controlling 
mechanism after a while.
•	The technological improvements and the decrease of our body
performance.
•	Why are we responsible to know more than our main branch of
interest.
•	What happened when the Marxist movement couldn't get the result.
        Bohemia, tramps..
•	Paris “passage” issue. The production being exhibited. Fashion and 
business.
•	The supermarket scenes. The movies of natural disasters.
•	The advertisement that want us to believe “we choose”
•	The need for relationship
•	The jobs that are peaceful
         The global village
•	Cultures of peace
•	The negative sides of Andersen's tales
•	The 50’s, the health
•	Open Space Technology

You can have a look at some of the photos of the first Ost event we did this

way, with kadikoyweb, an internet company. It was after a short movie 
festival.  The first part of the event took part at the movie theather, 
after watching the movies people watched a dance performance, and they were 
called to participate the dancer and go for some exercises to open their 
senses. It was a very productive ost event and some people who hated 
eachother before communicated like old friends :-)
http://www.kadikoyweb.com/acikalan/hakkinda.htm

Best wishes

Can Uludag

Ps. I plan to put some parts from the performance's video on Youtube this 
week.

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