Hayley, Joanna, Ross, Tamsin, Stephie, Rebecca, Alana, Stacey - they have all gotten underway! Hurray and start the firecrackers - if you were here I would shout with joy - or I would probably give you a more refrained 'good job' comment with a large grin as to not upset your karma.
It is really good to get started on this stuff early. Download the New 3835Handbook or the 3002 Handbook- try to read them - ok the first reaction is "What have I gotten myself into?" Laura in Italy knows what I mean... But get past that stage - that is the first stage when you start anything new. The 'inertial dampener' stage for Star Trek fans (Americans do like their Star Trek references). Read in stages and look to the first topic area - what is a professional inquiry?
There is always a challenge starting out new productions, new teams, new landscapes. We have had a number of network members describe new work teams for musical theatre. The main point of professional practice is that you are covering this material with your own interests and territory in mind. It is not just applied theory - but practice as it is seen as an ongoing praxis where doing and thinking collide. Knowledge is not privileged over doing - they happen together. The ideas of collision are more like the Big Blast - a creative force that relies on both energy and matter to come into existence. Our job is is to set up the lab conditions where the experiment takes place. It is a stage where improvisation is considered important but a structure does exist to move the production along. Or in terms of design, there is a brief, but how the brief is fulfilled is very open to interpretation. At least this is what I have gotten from studying work-based learning theory for the last four years and lifelong learning approaches longer than that. Learning is key.
By the way there has been some great work that we have looked at from the last term - so starting your engines and create a Formula 1 buzz.
Have you read this Peter? Almost no Web 2.0 theory here... just generation art pushing and pulling all over the place.
Thanks for your support Paula :)
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