The Ways Ensemble and Open Space

Sat Oct 20 20:38:36 PDT 2007

Hi Peggy
I have cc your post to Steve and I will let him and the other ensemble
members answer your questions directly.  I do believe that the arts do
provoke shifts or rumbles and shakes when we resist shifting of the
heart.  The arts can suspend us in the invisible and hold us there
long enough to recalibrate our senses allowing us to see things we
could not see before.  Allowing us to know what is right before us but
never knew.
Art creation when it works, when all the pieces of the mystery seem to
line up and all you can say is yah that is what I am talking about,
happens in much the same way as all other self organization.  You have
to open the space and see what shows up.  You have to open the space
and see what you have to offer in the emergence that wants to be.
There is plenty of skill and practice that is a part of your
preparation to partake in the process of creation but at the end of
the day if you get attached to a rigid view of what "it" should be you
it the being right out of it and lose the heart.  So art making in
opinion is another expression of open space.
pat
On 10/20/07, Peggy Holman <peggy at opencirclecompany.com> wrote:
> Hi Pat,
>
> I would LOVE to learn more about the ensemble.  How do they use OS to
> develop their performances?
>
> I am more and more convinced that the arts are essential to shifting hearts
> and minds because they carry meaning in a way that words alone rarely do.
> We are so trained to hear on the channel of the mind/understanding.  It
> isn't enough!  Sensing with heart, spirit, and no doubt other ways is as
> important.  The arts help with that, methinks.
>
> Peggy
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pat Black" <patoitextiles at gmail.com>
> To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
> Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2007 9:43 PM
> Subject: Re: [OSLIST] Join us live today for an Open Space on comunity art
> and engagement
>
>
> > Hi Peggy
> > How funny to read your post.  The Ways Ensemble does use Open Space to
> > develop their performance work.  The just had performances for a new
> > piece of work called A Disease Called Freedom this past week.  They
> > are based her in Minneapolis.  My husband Steve is the drummer in the
> > group.  There are 10 people in the ensemble right now and they include
> > dancers story tellers, spoken word poets, a visual artist working with
> > projected images and musicians.
> > Pat Black
> >
> > On 10/14/07, Peggy Holman <peggy at opencirclecompany.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi Harrison!
> >>
> >> Your message ties two themes currently under discussion on this
> >> list together for me: the arts and strategic planning.  That's because it
> >> was a strategic plan that I was working on with the Washington State Arts
> >> Commission (see
> >> http://www.opencirclecompany.com/OSWSACStory.htm).
> >>
> >> This topic seems "up" at the moment.  I was  just in a conversation last
> >> week with Wendy Morris, who works at the intersection of arts and
> >> process.
> >> She told me of a group that has been using OS at the heart of their
> >> performance work for years.  They're called The Ways Ensemble.  Here's
> >> something on their latest work:
> >> http://www.jazzpolice.com/content/view/7316/115/
> >>
> >> from an unusually sunny Seattle,
> >> Peggy
> >>
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> >> "An angel told me that the only way to step into the fire and not get
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> >> the fire".
> >>   -- Drew Dellinger
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> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: Harrison Owen
> >> To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
> >>
> >> Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 1:08 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [OSLIST] Join us live today for an Open Space on comunity
> >> art
> >> and engagement
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Good Show Chris and all the rest of the folks. Following along in the
> >> footsteps of Phelim McD! Seems to me that we must be generating quite a
> >> body
> >> of knowledge about OS in the Arts Community. Not all that long ago, Peggy
> >> Holman was working with the Arts Councils in Washington State, and I am
> >> sure
> >> there are others. It would be really interesting to pull some of that
> >> together.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Harrison
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Harrison Owen
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> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Chris
> >> Corrigan
> >> Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 2:14 PM
> >> To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
> >> Subject: Join us live today for an Open Space on comunity art and
> >> engagement
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Colleagues:
> >>
> >> I have just now opened space for 120 or artists and community arts
> >> practitioners here in Vancouver at an event called "Live in Public: the
> >> art
> >> of engagement."  There are many sessions underway at th emoment and the
> >> harvest will be added to the incredibly active online space, which has
> >> taken
> >> the form of a tea party, buzzing in cyberspace.
> >>
> >> Please join us today and for the rest of the conference tomorrow if that
> >> sort of thing interests you.  And if not, you might want to take a look
> >> at
> >> how the organizers of this conference are using Open Space and social
> >> networking to generate a great buzz.  the energy in the room is alive and
> >> the online conversation is hot too.
> >>
> >> Here's the site: http://islandsinstitute.ning.com/  Enjoy!
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Chris
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