Ways of Capturing Conversations among professional dancers and people concerned with dancing

Tue Aug 25 08:57:48 PDT 2009

Hi Spark, 
An organization called Dance/USA did a one-day Open Space on the topic of "Human Resources and Organizational Performance" with a group of 125 dance professionals in the US.  Some of the attendees were dancers and choreographers, but the majority of them were dance administrators, such as executive directors, operations and finance managers, and marketing staff of dance companies, presenters of dance and dance service organizations.   The Book of Proceedings and the photo gallery from the event (held in a dance space in NYC on January 31, 2009) can be found here: 
http://www.danceusa.org/pastprofessionaldevelopmentevents. 

Hope this is helpful. I'd be happy to talk about how we carried out the event - from getting buy-in of Dance/USA to try OST instead of their usual conference methods through the closing circle of the OS day and sending out the Book of Proceedings.  

Cheers, 
Leslie Zucker

Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:11:19 -0500
From: patoitextiles at gmail.com
Subject: Re: Ways of Capturing Conversations among professional dancers and people concerned with dancing
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU

Hi spark,
I work with a group of people here in Minnesota that work for a state art agency called Perpich Center for Art Education.  Your email immediately made me think of them and some of the work they do working with artists and dancers in particular.  We use some descriptive protocols to capture what people see and what that could mean.   The program was designed for teachers to develop more artful teaching practices but I think you may find it to be relevant to your needs.  The process is totally descriptive so no ego problems.  Here is a link to their website which describes some of the work they are doing http://opd.mpls.k12.mn.us/Perpich_Center_for_Arts_Education_Artful_Online.html.  The protocols are in the Artful Teaching and Learning book which you can access through the site.  As luck would have it one of their peer coaches is in Seoul teaching for the coming year.  She is very skilled and could possibly help you become familiar with the process and how it could help you in your need.  Her name is Lisa Thompson and her email is lisamarenthompson at mac.com.

To clarify this is not a variation of OST.  It is a way to describe, formulate questions, uncover personal responses, discover connections and speculate about what is present.  Judgement is easily threshed from the seed of experience and yet there is space for personal responses as well.  Lisa is very skilled and an all around lovely person.
Hope that is is possible for you to connect.Pat Black

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 3:05 AM, Spark (Stanley Park) <spark at openspace.kr> wrote:

We'd like to find ways of capturing conversations (recording ideas) during

breakout sessions of OS event held for professional dancers and people

concerned with dancing.

One of our OS friends and we had decided to start staging a series of 4 OS

events that might help people concerned with future of Dancers and Dancing

discover what they think in common, find workable ideas, and make decisions

on their best move into future.

We finished the first OS last Saturday and found reports were rather less

than what they conversed. At least this was what were expressed by

sponsoring group.

In fact this might be prematured judgment on the 1st try of open dialog

among those who care about their better future.

It seems that egos of those are supposed to lead/support the dancers to find

answers for themselves were discouraging dancers.

Regardless my gut feeling on this, we'd love to know various report writing

approaches that enhance writing as well as other ways of capturing dialogs

although the event was recorded on a videotape.

Appreciatively,

Spark

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