Wednesday, July 12, 2006
How to Kill Creativity
Over at "Slow Leadership," there is a post entitled "How to Kill Creativity." While it is written for business, when I read it I see connections to the contemporary theatre scene. From what I can see, the pressure has become so great, the economics so dour, and the window of opportunity so small that the theatre has become risk averse. For an art form that desperately needs creativity, is there any way to unplug from this downward spiral?
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Every once in a while, I think I'll post a link or two to posts written earlier in the life of Theatre Ideas that seem worth revisiting ...
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As a nice add-on, here is an article from Fast Company Magazine about the "Myths of Creativity."
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/89/creativity.html
Interesting myths of creativity;
3. Time Pressure Fuels Creativity
4. Fear Forces Breakthroughs
5. Competition Beats Collaboration
6. A Streamlined Organization Is a Creative Organization
This article is also indispensable when looking at the intersection of business and creativity:
http://www.deakin.edu.au/buslaw/bowater/research/pdf/glow_hilary_anzaam.pdf
Quote: th category of creativity legitimately belongs to the arts where it is seen, invariably, as the outcome of processes of imagination, experimentation and (often) failure. It is precisely these definitional aspects of the practice of creativity that make its interpretation in organizational theory so specious. The metaphor of creativity, as it is used within organizational theory, not only disguises its ideological function, it also elides one of the defining characteristics of creativity which is its coexistence with market failure."
How about this:
It's not gonna happen just to theatre...it will be everything.
The Extinction of Mass Culture
http://money.cnn.com/2006/07/11/news/economy/pluggedin_gunther.fortune/index.htm
I suggest we watch this CAREFULLY:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/16/theater/16zino.html
DAVID VS. GOLIATH - this is the crux of the theatrical problem. Mainstream meaningless or Underdog Originality.
Harold Ober Associates, Inc.
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New York, NY 10017
how about not doing theatre for money? fair - no. freedom - yes.
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