GENERAL
on April 3, 2009
Place: Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Time: Saturday 28 February 2009 16.00-18.00.
Subject: Preparing session with 21 moderators of the Reflective Conservatoire.
Introduction and hand out: Bart van Rosmalen (Royal Conservatoire The Hague
Goal: sharing knowledge, optimize knowledge circulation
Approach: seeing the session as a play […]
on December 11, 2008There was only 30 minutes to have an interactive discussion with 70 participants! They where sitting in theatre format with me, the moderator, standing in the front. I asked all of them to leave their chairs and join me standing on stage. I put them into small groups of four. As if standing in a […]
In the end this was an intuitive decision, something I just knew was right at the time, without really knowing why. I felt it in my bones! There are several reasons though, of which I am now aware:
I love singing, I love the physical feeling of it, so I want to be able to do […]
on July 14, 2008[ November 6, 2008 to November 8, 2008. ] I will be presenting two things at the AEC Congress in Aarhus, Denmark: my own research about one-to-one tuition, and the work of the Polifonia Research Group. As part of this second presentation we will be introducing and promoting a series of three international professional development workshops for conservatoire teachers. The challenge will be to […]
[ October 2, 2008 to October 3, 2008. ] This will be the 2nd meeting of this AEC working group which I chair.
October 2-3, Stockholm, Sweden
[ September 24, 2008 to September 27, 2008. ] Together with Bart van Rosmalen, I will be presenting a paper at this conference, based on our work on improvisation and conversation. The focus will be on aspects of “quality” in this research. We want to use the opportunity to deepen our own work, and particularly to engage with practitioners from the world of visual […]
[ September 9, 2008 to September 11, 2008. ] “Improvisation opens the senses.” - Healthcare professional
For three days in September I spent time with a group of actors, musicians, music therapists and health care workers, exploring the potential for collaborating through improvisation. We explored three particular themes: beginnings and engagement, listening, and touch. This is not the kind of thing that I have done […]
[ July 15, 2008; July 28, 2008; September 17, 2008; ] These workshops are for staff at the Guildhall School who will be leading mentoring circles of first year undergraduate music students as part of a new compulsory course: Performance Matters. They are part of a development programme which will run through the academic year 08/09, bringing the staff group of mentors together to build mentoring […]
on April 8, 2008Flash
Bart van Rosmalen, of the Royal Conservatoire The Hague, and I did a session of free play, as we always do when we meet, last time he visited London. At the beginning of this clip we make really simple movements with our hands, backwards and forwards, up and down. It is though we are talking […]
on March 27, 2008On 7 March a stimulating Connecting Conversation took place at the Walter Maas Huis, in a series on Artistry and improvisation. The theme ‘Memory’ proved very fertile. Afterwards I wrote a reflection on this day, from the experience of reading the book On Dialogue by David Bohm.
