Open Dance Space

[Patricia Haines]

Chinarut:
Where are you located geographically? any folks sharing your vision in Japan? do you ever come to
the US? have any similarly-minded/experienced folks in the US?

I'm excited and intrigued by what you offer below - and I'd like to explore possibilities for
including it in our (Ithaca, NY) April celebration of National Dance Week. Since NDW is associated
with International Dance Day, and we're in touch with dance networks worldwide who share our
commitment to dance as a way of building bridges across chasms of conflict and cultural
bewilderment, linking Open Space with dance could open a whole new dimention to our efforts.

It's also something that would be good to include in an international gathering on integfrating the
arts across the sustainability movement that we're starting to plan for the US Partnership for the
UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development. I want to know more. I'll check the website you
mention, but would love to hear from you directly.

If others on this list are similarly interested, please let me know.

Patricia Haines
Level Green Institute, Ithaca, NY
Regional Coordinator and Outreach Director, National Dance Week-Ithaca
US Partnership for the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, Arts Action Team and
Adult/Community Learning
----- Original Message -----
From: Chinarut <chinarut at dancelabs.com>
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Sent:         Sat, 6 Jan 2007 13:22:36 +0700
Subject: Open Dance Space

> Hi!  I'm new to this list and open space was introduced to me at the Asia
> Commons <http://www.asia-commons.net> thanks to Allison Hewlitt's stand to
> bring something so great to Asia!  This all wouldn't be possible if it
> weren't for Michel Bauwens' encouragement I be completely open to surprises
> and attend - well this and then some! :)   I've been since mingling in Ted
> Ernst's "Mystery of Open
> Space<http://www.omidyar.net/group/openspaceresearch/news/7/?min_score=-9999&show=1&page=2>"
> thread on o.net and he suggested I share my thoughts with the entire OS
> community.  It's a pleasure to meet you all!
> 
> If you are someone who has applied and/or researched open space in the
> domain of dance with the intent to transform how many of us see and/or
> relate to dance and open up new spaces, this email is for you!
> 
> My stake in open space:  In our community, dance is as much a conversation
> as our spoken conversation and there is something to be said if you bring
> people together without agenda to play and experiment with dance in a way
> that parallels open space methodology.
> 
> As a result, I've been leading an effort called Dance
> Labs<http://www.dancelabs.com>on a volunteer basis for the past 5
> years following a thread I never knew
> existed.   It's only recently become a full-time effort shortly after
> releasing our work <http://chalat.dancelabs.com> under a creative commons
> license.   We have a short, edited 1.5 min video<http://trailer.dancelabs.com>
> summarizing 4 months of effort gearing how we participate with children.
> This makes things much more concrete, gives us much to ponder, and builds
> much excitement to move forward with!
> 
> So it's clear where we're at - we've suspended weekly gatherings in the
> spirit of focusing on fundraising this year - our sustainability is at stake
> and we have this month to sort things out.  We have an Arts Festival in
> Bangkok end of February as a canvas to try any new ideas discussed here on
> this list.   My intent in sharing is to keep our momentum going so any input
> you have outside of our question below is appreciated and we will take
> discussions off list as it makes sense.
> 
> One challenge we have is identifying what it takes to catalyze the
> interactive dance process - what we have discovered is akin to going back
> and forth between the open space format and an agenda-driven workshop-like
> format with intervals as quick as 5 minutes.    One way this looks is an
> experience we had planning a complete session (2 hrs), letting our
> participants have a say in the matter, and it ending up being a very dynamic
> process integrating a larger subset of content than our agenda with their
> presence! (research
> detail<http://www.dancelabs.com/program/chalat/#FormatDesign>
> )
> 
> This is much more fulfilling than a static workshop format as many of you
> can imagine!
> 
> Now is this a natural process of open space?
> 
> Any direction(s) you feel we may proceed in from here is welcome!
> 
> Chinarut
> 
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