Thought Residencies

Thought Residencies

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Thought Residencies episodes

  • Lisa C. Ravensbergen - Thought #3 - 5:16am

    There's very little elegance when creating something from nothing. It's gangly work to let go of expectation—to endure the growing pains of acceptance and the insufferable lack of clarity that sucks the marrow of your joy. It's not until an exquisitely lucid moment of connection surprises you and what was a problem, a resentment, or a looming fiasco suddenly becomes a rite of passage.

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  • Lisa C. Ravensbergen - Thought #2 - On Holding Space

    I've been trained to hold the space—to fulfill my responsibilities by caring for community. But the older I get, the more I seem to fail at holding the space in a Good Way. And with each failure, I think I may be learning that the space is holding me and my failure… and my actual responsibility is to simply carry my fear, not wield it.

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  • Lisa C. Ravensbergen - Thought #1 - Collaboration, Humility and Hope

    Today has been a study in humility. I am collaborating on a new piece, and I was reminded that to be inside my own questions is to be exceptionally open to other peoples' answers.

    Everything is about reorienting ourselves to the Thing (with a capital T) that we've lost, which is the land. And collaboration is a recall of sorts of what we live without, and how we fill it with what we hope might be more.

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  • Dylan On - Thought #5 - Love Lost
    Did you watch the Tonys? Today's thought is about the art we love and what happens, or how it feels, when we stop loving it. These days I sit through a musical the same way I think Kevin Spacey does - with a polite smile that doesn't reach my eyes.
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  • Dylan On - Thought #4 - Sharing/Value
    Hey, it's Dylan again. Thought #4 is about sharing, artistic labour, and money. I'll be among the first to advocate for more openness, more sharing of artistic works, the ability to build upon them... I think that if art is a public good it should be freely available. However, I have to wonder if sharing freely in this way undervalues - devalues artistic labour in an industry that already has problems being undervalued socially and with actual dollars.
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  • Dylan On - Thought #3 - Proprietary Tech
    Hey, it's Dylan with Thought #3. As scrappy as theatres can be, we use a lot of technology, and most of it is proprietary. Other people build it, and theatres pay to use it. I've been dreaming of a world where theatres will have the money to hire technical people to be on staff to collectively build and maintain the tools we need as an industry, and make them freely available for anyone's use. So, that's the idea - Let's do it! I don't know where we find the money, but let's open source theatre technology.
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  • Dylan On - Thought #2 - Semantic Versioning
    Hey, it's Dylan and this is my second thought. Today I'm thinking about Semantic Versioning, so for example, the process that governs our move from version 1 to version 2. In software, this is a huge shift introducing backwards-incompatible changes that mean you can't use that software in the same way. We can re-invent Romeo & Juliet into version 2 and demand a fundamentally different engagement with that work, but the important question is: How do we get to version 3 from there, and how far can we go?
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  • Dylan On - Thought #1 - Institutional Subjectivity
    Hi, my name is Dylan On. Today I'm thinking about artistic and cultural institutions and their subjectivity. Namely - do they have one? Can institutions exist in a real way where they can bear responsibility, or do individuals like me simply speak them into existence? I guess what I'm wrestling with is: When institutions fail... does the buck stop with me?
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  • Tanisha Taitt - Thought #12- The Call​
    Th​ought #12 - The Call​ ​Th​ere is a thorn in the wind There is a wall we must climb There is a storm rolling in It is the call of our time Who is to tend to the need​?​ Who is to hold tired hands​?​ Friend it is you, it is me Because n​o one is free Until freedom stands _______________ This is Tanisha and Thought #12.​​​ Thanks for listening to my residency.​
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  • Tanisha Taitt - Thought #11 - Legacy
    Thought #11 - Legacy It's Tanisha and Thought #11. As I've watched the In Memoriam reels at this year's Oscars and Grammys, I can't help thinking about the impact of my own life. As a daughter, as a sister, as an aunt, a mentor, a friend... I know it is deep and true. But as an artist? I'm not sure. Will there be a directing job that I do, a performance that I give, a song or a play that I write -- that will be reverberating in people's lives thirty years from now? I can't know that. But I know that I can leave my attempts. And I know that I can leave the passion.
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About Thought Residencies

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The Thought Residencies are back! This season, hear four long-form conversations between artists about theatre, creation and community. All hosted by b Current Artistic Director and FOLDA Co-Curator, Marcel Stewart.