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Exploring common ground in the performing arts
Posted: January 7, 2005
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With the vision and leadership of my colleagues Alberta Arthurs and Steven Tepper, and an amazing team of graduate students from arts management, policy, and related programs, we forged an initiative to serve as the 'eyes and ears' of the various convenings...listening to the content and rhythm of the hundreds of conversations, and building a framework for encoding those conversations for analysis.
The I-DOC Project, as we came to call it (standing for our efforts to Interview, Document, Observe, and Clarify), was an amazing experience...driven through long hours and hard thinking by caffeine, starchy foods, and wireless laptop computers.
Our findings are now on-line in a final report that seeks to capture what we heard, what we learned, and how we might apply that knowledge to advance a more collaborative, discipline-crossing conversation among performing arts professionals.
It's only 34 pages (if you ignore the endless appendices), so it's clearly just the tip of the iceburg. But I sense and hope that it's the beginning of a deeper conversation somewhere.