by dave brown | Nov 12, 2015 | overview
Hello. My name is Dave Brown and I’m a performance-maker with an insane curiosity for how we as humans function as “creators”. What is this drive that leads us to make meaning? How does it work? As a theatre thinker and tinker, I offer a digest of provocations and insights designed to incite and inspire like-minded enthusiasts of creative practice. My playground will be the seven principles of performance-making. Two stonecutters were engaged in a similar activity. Asked what they were doing, one answered, “I’m squaring up this block of stone.” The other replied, “I’m building a cathedral!” Clearly what counts is not so much what work a person does … but what we perceive we’re doing it for. Willis Harman, Global Mind Change, 1988, p144 I’ve spent the last 20 years as Artistic Director of Patch Theatre Company creating professional theatre for 4-8 year olds. I can’t remember ever having taken a sick day. Surely I did! The point is, I’ve been incredibly privileged to “work” at something that is inherently joyful, challenging, absorbing and worthwhile! I loved every minute of it!! The ideas and experience that I accumulated across my time at Patch Theatre has led me to my new venture called The PaperBoats, which I describe as an international partnership platform for theatre-makers, that investigates and pioneers new ways of connecting and creating. photo: patch theatre production – emily loves to bounce As part of this venture, I have designed seven principles of performance-making which I’ve cobbled together across the years. I am using these “principals” to pioneer new ways of performance-making. I believe we’re on the cusp of some trail-blazing possibilities in the way we “collaborate to create”, prompted by new technologies and...
