The dance of dreamfish in Q1, 2009
At the end of the first quarter, dreamfish service team members came together to reflect on our experience of Dreamfish through choreography. Why? Dreamfish supports work that is healthy and sustainable.
As humans, we are embodied and embedded in the environment. But, with our world being so fragmented and alienating, it is easy to forget our own nature. Being able to access
this systems know-how in our work is important for an organization that wants to support sustainability. So, we use the arts in our strategic planning processes.
The methodology, Chormmunity (choreography community) was developed by Paul Loper, a thought leader in process arts, and a founding dreamfisher.
To develop this piece, we first each created drawings, and then explored relationships between our drawings to see more about our community. Then, taking our design thinking into motion, each person developed movement phrase to represent the drawing.
Then, using the individual movement phrases, the group then choreographed a dance. The dance continues to move in each of us.
And, now, thanks to the filmmaking of Johannes Klose, we see a new dance with this video.
Nice video! It would be fascinating to see the drawings, as well as people’s debrief afterward of what the movement brought to their experiences.
Eugene, thanks for thinking of this. I inserted an image of the drawings, in the final composition from which the group decided to then develop choreography.
A way that I reflected on this composition is that the individual dreamfish member is in the center and around the person is a collaborative support system.