Once you have read both chapters, analyze how some of the twelve guiding principles outlined in the first chapter you read were evident in the case study described in the chapter you chose to read. What strategies did the artist employ in working with that specific group of people? What questions emerge? Write a blog post with your reflections.
- Question: In Finding the medicine, does the artist have to do that with their imagination, like an assumption or educated guess from the person's story? Or is this something the person whose story it is to explicitly say it?
- Question: additionally for Finding the Medicine, I'm not sure what it meand when it says it can be found through the actor's joy or hidden talents; who is the medicine for and who does the medicine come from?
Chapter 2: Growing Old is About the Growing
The main connections I got from the piece were the not knowing, holding paradoxes, and deeply listening with the ears of the heart. It was all about taking the lives of people and finding a way to make their presence, their stories, overtly moving, even poetic. The creator didn't know what the piece was going to be or how to make it, but they knew that there were tools that they could use to build whatever it was they were about to create. A lot of it was just figuring out how to use those tools to highlight what was already being done through the participants' storytelling.
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