HowlRound: I’ve started to worry that we are making too much theater without attending to the notion that it’s a collaborative art form. For anyone who knows me, they know I talk a lot about Lynette, my partner in life these last fourteen years. In part that’s because I’m a bit of a sap but it’s also because our relationship is my longest creative collaboration. In a global sense relationships are always a creative collaboration.
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Some Thoughts on Collaboration
HowlRound: I’ve started to worry that we are making too much theater without attending to the notion that it’s a collaborative art form. For anyone who knows me, they know I talk a lot about Lynette, my partner in life these last fourteen years. In part that’s because I’m a bit of a sap but it’s also because our relationship is my longest creative collaboration. In a global sense relationships are always a creative collaboration.
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The author of this article is spot on. I find that the people I work best with are the ones that I feel the freest to argue with. There has to be core values that are shared between collaborators but that have different points of view on those values will have the best product, and most interesting out come. I find that it is harder for me to work with my best friends because I don't want to step on toes. So either I ruin a preexisting relationship or I don't say what I really think. Collaboration should not only be working well together but pushing each to think of something that only the two people could come up with instead of one person by themselves.
Like Zoe, I agree with a lot of the article. I definitely agree with the section that discusses how collaborators must see things differently. This always leads to so many other ideas than one person could come up with. I have always loved being able to bounce ideas off of others and have them come back with something completely different that still works that was inspired by something said, or vice versa. The fundamental agreement about things also plays a big role in the collaboration, as it gives two or more people a common ground upon which to base things.
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