Dear Friends
First I would like to welcome Kari Skarholt and Hanne Olofsson
Finnestrand to Aacorn. Kari and Hanne participated in the Organisational
Theatre Thin Book Summit we organised here at LLD in March 2005 - they are great!
I want to apologise to them both for not nominating them to Aacorn as I promised
to do after the Summit.
No excuse – other than lack of time…
There were more great people at the Summit who expressed an interest in joining
Aacorn. I would like to nominate collectively as they all have a background in
Organisational Theatre. So here they are – with their own stories…
All the best
Hilde
Marijke Broekhuijsen, Director Senior Management Programmes at the Executive and
Management Development Centre, Nyenrode University, Netherlands (http://www.nyenrode.nl/executive/emdc.cfm),
independent trainer/consultant and actor. “…I
am originally trained as an actor (Theatreschool Amsterdam) and graduated in Cultuurpedagogiek
(UvA). Later I got a Master in Art & Media Management. I spent many years
in adult education and as curator of the Amsterdam Historical
Museum. My career in MD
started at Shell in 1980, when I was asked as a theatre professional to train managers
in so called self-development programs. I have since performed various activities
in MD or OD context for companies and governmental organisations, often theatre
related but not necessarily so. I still do. In 1990 I started working for
Nyenrode University, first for the executive MBA, later as program director of
( open and in-company) senior management programs; also teacher/coach in other
programs at Nyenrode. During all these years I have continued to act on stage
and for television, though the last years not as much as I would like…I
know OT from different perspectives: from the theatre-professional side, from
the MD-professional side and as a program
director.
I both offer and buy OT, which is sometimes confusing…”
Daniel Hjorth, Associate Professor, ESBRI (Entrepreneurship and Small Business
Research Institute), Stockholm; Malmö University
(www.esbri.se); and affiliated to Växjö University, Sweden. “…My background is a researcher in entrepreneurship and
organization theory. I work with entrepreneurship as forms of social creativity
and emphasise the creative sides, opening op to the use of aesthetic knowledge
and perspectives for an understanding of entrepreneurial creation processes.
Together with Chris Steyaert I have developed a performative approach to the
conduct of ‘presenting’ research. We perform research in the form
of theatrical performances, using scripts to guide a story that takes
‘the audience’ (most often academics attending a conference)
through experiencing the points we like to get across. These performances have
also been published as scripts. It is a way to change the way research
participates in society. This form relies on basic features of drama, i.e., of
alerting a broader range of senses in order to ‘communicate’ the
message. It is an ‘effective’ way to communicate complex concepts
to practitioners in organizations (when performed in the context of a
consulting job)…”
Dorthe Bille, Actor, Videnskabsteatret (www.videnskabsteatret,dk), Denmark, Dell’Arte International School of
Physical Theatre California.
USA,
B.A. in Theatre Science and in the teaching of adults, MLP Master in Learning Processes. “…I
have been working with theatre for several years, as an actress, a teacher, a
director, and a project manager etc. About a year ago I started as cultural entrepreneur
producing science theater. Science theatre is a fusion of the lecture and the
theatre performance. A science-theater performance is arranged and created in
close collaboration between the artist and the scientist. This means that the
scientific professional who participates in the performance is present at stage
alongside with the actors. My
performances are based on a visual, a musical and a sensuous expression, where
the scientist’s words, the performer’s action and the music in a
reciprocal action create a dynamic and a whole. Science-theater is a way in which you may communicate scientific
results and knowledge to a broader audience. The layman is thereby given a
change for insight in important knowledge and the performance will create a
space for critical dialog and debate…”
Paul Levy, Director, CATS3000 Limited, (www.cats3000.com) and Senior Research Fellow, CENTRIM (Centre for Research in
Innovation Management (CENTRIM) in Brighton UK. “…I am a social scientist by training, and now director of
my own training and organisational theatre company. I have written several
books including Technosophy (about wisdom and technology management) and
E:Quality (about diversity and employee involvement) Our company takes theatre
performance into organisational life. We have worked with organisations
throughout industry and the public sector and are currently touring a show
called ”Re-Inventing the Cheese” which is all about the world of
work. Previous productions include ”Win, Win, Win” about the
dangers of Competition, and ”Bunk”, a play about art in industry
and the meaning of work. I work closely with Arts and Business in the UK and have
evaluated their own Creativiity in Management programme…”
Jan Rae, Senior Lecturer, HRM and Management, London South Bank
University. “… I have a
background in theatre (and still very involved on a non-professional basis) and
the BBC before moving to work in Higher Education, and have just completed my
first year at Durham Business School on the Doctorate in Business
Administration. My research is, broadly speaking, looking at the ways in
which theatre and drama is or could be used within organisations to bring about
change, whether on an individual or organisational basis, I also have an
interest in management learning and hope eventually to link these themes
together…”
Göran von Euler, Actor and CEO, Pocket Theater (www.pocket.nu
), Sweden.
Göran is one of the founders of Pocket
Theater and he is a teacher in education and psychology and trained actor. POCKET
is a consulting and educational company supporting people and organisations in
change. Pocket was one of the
first groups in Sweden
to develop OT (interactive theatre) as a method for personal, group and
organisational development in professional life.
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