89 - the One Being Educated is YOU - Jay Gilligan, Ivar Hacksher, Erik Åberg & Your Truly - Pt 2 of 2

the Way of the Showman

In this episode Ivar Hackscher, Jay Gilligan, Erik Åberg and myself talk about education and abouyt being constant learners.
Some of the topics we touch on:
-What would be a good education for jugglers
-A school does not have enough time to be completely open ended. Only your education in life will have that time, and even that does not have unlimited time.
- Students at circus school are now arriving with a more passive attitude towards the education.
-You cant teach something which is not asked for
-John Le Hooker: I can only play what the audience has in their legs...
-Getting an audience to ask question is imperative to a participative performance.
-As a teacher develops in thier own exploration and development they get further and further away from the first year strudent. Can we find passion and enthusiasm to share with them what they need?
-We must not forget the foundational. The skills and mind of the beginner...
-You cant make others care about something your'e not passionate about yourself.
-Are we stifled by the very concept of school?
-Frodo talks about the conept of a triangle and how it relates to teaching and performance.
-Relaxed field and play as the most free domains where human freedom is at its greatest.
-the young are the bringers of the future.
-meet them with the expectation to learn from them. Since we Old ones are outdated.
-Midwifing ideas.
-What is the intention of a "school's" project. This is important to contemplate and formulate.
-How does the need to make a living factor into a schools project and responsibility.
-The first stockholm circus program needed to show the state that 80% of thier students became circus artists. (I would be surprised if any other art school had results like that...)
-Fairness is not that everyone gets the same or have the same needs.
-Ivar found a new and stronger dimension of freedom as a teacher when he was invited to be a teacher at the circus pilot project.
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-You must listen so carefully to the students that you can assist them in coming into their own. Listen in a way that will aid them in coming into their own future.

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