Published inField of the Future Blog·Jan 7, 2022The Language of Social Presencing Theater: Words That Express the WordlessSocial Presencing Theater has been an integral social change practice of the Presencing Institute, developed over fifteen years, in rooms where we could see and sense each other’s embodied presence. We could put a hand on another’s shoulder. We could look out to see the shape of our collective social…Social Change5 min readSocial Change5 min read
Oct 6, 2021Charles Starrett and Jung Starrett attended our most recent Presencing Institute u.academyCharles Starrett and Jung Starrett attended our most recent Presencing Institute u.academy course, Art of Making a True Move:Social Presencing Theater. They have been engaged in u.lab and in other u.academy courses and have been students in my Social Presencing Theater Basics course in Boston. …5 min read5 min read
Published inField of the Future Blog·Jul 17, 2019Four Reflection Processes on the VillageOrigin of the Village practice The Village is one of the oldest practices in Social Presencing Theater (SPT). It arose in the 1970’s from a time in which dance improvisation was more or less “do whatever you feel like.” A friend suggested to me that in order to teach dance…Spt6 min readSpt6 min read
Published inField of the Future Blog·Apr 15, 2019Advanced SPT Training Cohort 5: Deepening and BroadeningIn March twenty-seven SPT practitioners completed the year-long SPT Advanced Training in Berlin. Kate Johnson, Manish Srivastava, and Ricardo Dutra taught and facilitated with Arawana with invaluable support from Angela Baldini and Sabrina Ruiter-Bouwhuis. …Design3 min readDesign3 min read
Published inField of the Future Blog·Mar 26, 2019First Social Art Residency in the YucatanAt the recent 10-day Social Art Studio in Mexico a group of 7, mostly non-theater/non-poet artists, created a haiku performance. The wonderful thing about performance is that it is not just thinking and talking, but it is actually doing. The making process is doing things quickly, without much of a…Haiku3 min readHaiku3 min read
