PerformWorld & psychodrama?

Fri Mar 28 16:12:49 CDT 2008

This has been my concern in the past with the Social Therapy- 
Performing the World scene, just as Bud you identified.  It was, in  
large part, why I left any association and why, about a year ago, I  
expressed the same concerns on this forum.  Of late, mostly due to my  
own change of heart, more open that is, I feel differently.  Their  
working class politic has its place in the pantheon of the body  
politic and they are offering great things to many people.  I once  
felt they were very much a cult, with Fred as center.  But I also  
know many have come from around the US and the world to Performing  
the World and have made great contacts, great alliances, for change.   
So I am feeling differently:  the past is that, but the future  
demands all of us on board.  That's where I am at.

Best,

Ed

On Mar 28, 2008, at 4:09 PM, BARNETT WEISS wrote:

> I note that Fred Newman is involved with these folks. I really  
> don't trust Fred or his New Alliance Party at all. Here is an  
> article that may seem a bit over the top and at the same time is  
> consistent with my experience of Fred and those who work in  
> association with him. I have known people who left the New Alliance  
> Party and their Social Therapy groups who have some very grusome  
> stories to tell. It is all about having been a victim or slave of  
> the social culture in the capitalist world and now forming a  
> revolution to turn it around
> Nearly everyone I know in the African Diaspora group do not want to  
> have anything to do with him or his group. http://www.cultnews.com/? 
> cat=129
> That having been said, are you sure you want to have psychodrama  
> associated with him in any way. This group allowing him to be a  
> presenter has to know his politics and what goes on with his group.  
> If they don't and are simply ignorantly giving him a venue to spew  
> his often devisive messages, I for one do not want to be a part of it.
>
> A discussion was just had on this list about how some people abuse  
> psychodrama and give it a bad name. If half of what I have been  
> told by others coming out of the social therapy groups and New  
> Alliance Party are true, they make the stories we have been  
> processing seem like playing in a sand box.
> Be well all, Bud
>
>
>
> Edward Schreiber <edwschreiber at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Hi Colleagues,
> I do know this group of people. Â In fact I once had an association.
> Some time ago, this Performing the World, came to our web site and  
> I suggested no connection.
>
> But I think differently now.
> These are a talented, dedicated, creative group of people.
> Dedicated to transformation of the world, and represent a working  
> class perspective in it all.
> These are good people with an extraordinary degree of dedication.
>
> I have had a change of heart: Â Moreno's work belongs there.
>
> Ed Schreiber
>
>
> On Mar 28, 2008, at 9:13 AM, Adam Blatner wrote:
>
>> Dear Colleagues,
>> Â Â Â  Do any of you folks know about this group? Apparently they  
>> overlap with our interests --- from what I can gather-- but it's  
>> hard to know what exactly they do or what they're about.
>> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  I've seen some of their books---heavy into the  
>> postmodernist rationale, light on description---
>> Â Â  But one is about drama in education and that feels closer to  
>> spontaneity training in schools---I feel good about that---
>> Â
>> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  So though I can't afford to attend, perhaps  
>> someone in the New York area knows someone who knows these people?
>> Â
>> Â Â Â Â Â Â  Warmly, Adam
>> Â
>> Â
>> Â
>> ****
>> Performing the World '08
>> Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
>> Deadline for Proposals: April 1, 2008
>> Announcement and Call for Proposals
>> ï¿½The conveners of Performing the World, the conference/festival  
>> of the
>> growing international performance movement, are excited to announce
>> that the fifth Performing the World will be held in New York City  
>> from
>> October 2-5, 2008. The event will showcase innovative practice and
>> scholarship and provide a rich context for learning and performing
>> together.
>> ï¿½A New Location, A New Kind of Conference
>> ï¿½Performing the World '08 (PTW '08) builds on the momentum of  
>> 2007's
>> PTW 4, which brought together 300 practitioners, scholars and
>> community activists-educators, youth workers, researchers,
>> psychologists and therapists, health and helping professionals,
>> business people, artists and activists from 27 countries. PTW '08 is
>> bringing the international performance movement to the streets of New
>> York-and introducing the performance movement to the communities of
>> New York City.
>>
>> For the first time, the All Stars Project, an organization recognized
>> for its highly successful performance-based outside-of-school
>> developmental programs for young people and its Castillo Theatre,
>> joins the East Side Institute as a co-sponsor of the  
>> conference.ï¿½ PTW
>> '08 will be based out of the All Stars' performance and development
>> center on 42nd Street near Times Square, and will be hosted by young
>> people from around the city. Workshops and performances will take
>> place there and at theatres, schools and other venues throughout
>> Manhattan and other boroughs. New Yorkers from virtually every
>> neighborhood will open up their homes to out-of-towners, not only to
>> save on hotel costs, but also to incorporate the diversity of family
>> and neighborhood into the experience of the weekend and to build
>> person-to-person ties between ordinary New Yorkers and performance
>> activists and scholars from around the world.
>> ï¿½Proposals
>> ï¿½PTW '08 invites proposals from all who are involved in performance
>> work that is related to cultural, economic or psychological
>> development, community-building, social justice, citizenry,  
>> individual
>> and social transformation, social entrepreneurship, etc. We are
>> looking for a variety of presentation types, including workshops,
>> conversations, demonstrations, discussions and panels. We encourage a
>> playfulness and experimentation for all presentations, especially  
>> with
>> regard to theory and data.
>> ï¿½This year's theme, "Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow," encourages
>> participants to attend to history and process-their own and that of
>> the performance movement. We are particularly interested in
>> examinations/explorations of the shift from a cognitive to a
>> performative approach to understanding, interacting with and
>> (re)creating the world as embodied in the work of the participants
>> and/or those they with whom they work/play/ study. Also of  
>> interest is
>> the performance movement's interaction with and impact on the "big
>> issues" facing the world- poverty, war and peace, sustainability,
>> democracy, globalization, cultural diversity and creativity, the list
>> could go on. The second day of PTW '08 will be devoted to "An
>> International Celebration of Youth" and we encourage those interested
>> to submit proposals relative to youth, youth performance and youth
>> development for that day.
>> ï¿½Fields of Interest:
>> ï¿½* Applied Theatre
>> * Improvisation
>> * Performance Studies
>> * Youth Development
>> * Participatory Research and Evaluation
>> * Political and Community Organizing
>> * Education
>> * Drama in Education
>> * Psychology and Psychotherapy
>> * Community Development
>> * Medicine and Health Care
>> * Organizational Change, Business and Management
>> A sampling of conversational themes, panels, workshops and
>> performances:
>> ï¿½* Performance as a Community Building Methodology
>> * Postmodern Creativity and Performance
>> * Knowing, Not Knowing and Performing
>> * Performance and Politics
>> * Performance in Daily Life
>> * The Therapeutics of Performance
>> * The Creativity of the Group, Ensemble and Community
>> * Theatre and Community
>> * The Creativity of Improvisation
>> * Performing, Improvising and Learning
>> * The Power of Play
>> * Conflict Resolution and Performance
>> Conveners:
>> ï¿½Dan Friedman, All Stars Project, NY
>> Lois Holzman, East Side Institute, NY
>> Dian Marie Hosking, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
>> Ana Marjanovic-Shane, Cultural Educational Center "ZMAJ", NY &
>> Philadelphia
>> Sheila McNamee, University of New Hampshire, Durham
>> Paul Murray, University of Winchester, UK
>> Fred Newman, East Side Institute, NY
>> Registration Fee:
>>
>> Before August 1: $195 (US)
>> After August 1: ï¿½ $225 (US)
>> ï¿½Instructions and forms for submitting proposals, due April 1,  
>> 2008,
>> can be viewed and downloaded at www.performingtheworld.org. Proposals
>> should be e-mailed to Lois Holzman at ptw at eastsideinstitute.org. The
>> subject headline should be PTW Proposal.ï¿½ If you can't e-mail, then
>> mail or fax to:
>>
>> Lois Holzman, Director
>> East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy
>> 920 Broadway, 14th Floor
>> New York, New York 10010
>> U.S.A.
>> Fax: 212-941-0511
>> Tel: 212-941-8906
>> ï¿½PTW '08 is sponsored by the All Stars Project, Inc.  
>> (www.allstars.org)
>> and the East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy
>> (www.eastsideinstitute.org).
>> Adam Blatner, M.D.
>> Â Â  website: www.blatner.com/adam/Â Â
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