Colin & Simon

Performance research blog detailing collaboration between choreographers Colin Poole and Simon Ellis

Jul 22

Kolb’s learning styles

Colin introduced Kolb’s learning styles into our work as a way of considering different approaches to the work:

  1. Concrete Experience - (CE)
  2. Reflective Observation - (RO)
  3. Abstract Conceptualization - (AC)
  4. Active Experimentation - (AE)

It seems like we are tending to work either in CE or in AC. They feel quite distinct, but perhaps part of our work is to find points of convergence? (Sound simple).

What is it we are trying to do in the process … when some kind of edge or deflation or some kind of uncertainty creeps into the space … ?

How much of our process is trying to reduce uncertainty?

How do you amplify the uncertainty?

What happens if you foreground or problematise the knowing and the certainty in the seeker/viewer/spectator?

(notes from rehearsal on 21 July 2009)


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