Theater! Theater!

I wonder now if approaches that create innovation and
community in the creative space of a rehearsal can be
applied in areas that are more oriented toward
management and evaluation....?

In other words, is there room for open creativity in
a shared administration? Could this be way for the
"meaning" of arts & humanities endeavors to emerge?

Not top-down or bottom-up, but from the middle
outward, and the center is always shifting...

Dear Ron,

You’ll forgive me if I jump to a response. Conversation is
the model here— back and forth. Ping and then Pong.

Bell Letters, too—as opposed to lunchroom converse
(bottom-up) and publication/convention (top-down?).
This right here now is the media that captures the
“middle outward, and the center always shifting.”

Do you know the letters between James Hillman and
Michael Ventura (We’ve Had a Hundred Years of
Psychotherapy and the World is Getting Worse)?
Beautiful example of the kind of dynamic information
generated through informal, conversational exchange of
letters. And that was before e-mail.

Middle-Outward and the Center Always Shifting.

It seems to me the analogy between putting on a performance
and managing an institution for product is appropriate & tight.
Always a power struggle going on. How it's channeled is what
makes performance. "Struggle” is a fair word—good and
descriptive.

AGON. Protagonist/Antagonist & without contraries is no
progress. Power is key, crucial: we don’t want it frozen up
or down—but something like In the Middle Outward and
the Center Always Shifting. Local Foodback Circuitry.

What would that mean in play?

“Governance.” “Regulation.” Thermostasis. Homeostasis.
The nature of auto-poetic self-corrective systems. Ways
to talk about this from different disciplines.

Here are two images:

Upside Down Flamingo Croquet on the one hand.
Hard Balls & Mallet Croquet on the other hand.

And then something of In the Middle Outward and The
Center Always Shifting: how to image that? The more
images and ways of talking about it, the better?. I presume.

What’s the difference, then, between putting on a PLAY
that generates Putting on an Environment That Generates
Individual Genius? and Putting on a PLAY that generates
Putting on an Environment That Generates Collaborative
Genius? How to characterize the In-the-Middle-Outward-
and-The-Center-Always-Shifting?

Maybe you’ll forgive me for shifting this potential conversation
from FAH! to The Committee of the Whole. That’s where all
the potential (if not kinetic) power lies—true? Great dammed,
reservoir: resource of all our possibilities, don’t you agree?

xxxooo, Sam