FE:PDN - Practices of producing (18 January 2024) by Stefanie Sachsenmaier

Visioning/imagining - thinking about the pathways towards that. Individual role or organisational

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Producing role - I've had it x6 times and every time it has been a different job

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an act of making things happen...

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Catalyst, building relationships, making connections between people who bring different skills

Producing means different things to different people in daily discourse / more acknowledged now than before in terms of importance to practices, process, work

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making things happen - activity of producing

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Gathering resource - developing the framework for realising an idea - making sure the framework is safe, realistic, centres care

The practical: fundraising, planning, writing, budget management, relationship building, brokering, holding multiple relationships, networking, well connected with other art forms, film music etc.

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Kate Castle in the publication 'Producers: Alchemists of the Impossible'

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'Producers are often highly instinctual in their decision making, combining great flexibility with unswerving fixity of purpose, and opportunism with a strong sense of direction. Temperamentally, they are able to take the lead in action and decision-making, and to facilitate others, often in complex patterns of partnership.

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producing 'work'

co-creation

enabling things to 'work' - generating a context that makes a space for things to happen

ssachsenmaier — 2024-01-18 15:23:05 UTC

Where does the term producer come from? When did it emerge? Where is it borrowed from? When did we adopt it and what for?

dramaturgy

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wider dramaturgy of an idea/project, wider framework, overview, the relationships between aspects/elements

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administrative act, care, resourcing, creating conditions for moving practices to happen

The visisoning, the creative dialogue in the studio or cafe or bar. Coaching withinin producing. Support an artist to find the core of their idea/intention - to enable via questioning/dialogue.

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Administrative brilliance

it speaks clearly to the place where the resourcing happens (space / partnerships / people )

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Mentoring as perhaps more hierarchical as opposed to coaching

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skills and knowledge needed to understand contexts and needs of creative practice

Those help create the context that enables work to happen.

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collaborative role

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Leadership - often co-leadership, co-authorship of a project

Producers: Individual producers, organisations, collectives, self-producing artists

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understanding the context and practice and what is needed...

producers that offer; supportive interventions in self-produced work and then also completely 'produce' work or co-produce with multiple producers/organisations

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producing sits within role of producer but might be part of other 'jobs'

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Weaving - holding & pulling together beautiful, different threads into a wonderful whole

Does an enabler inherently involve having economic resource? Resources also include: space and time

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Storytelling as a producer - guide people forward, bring people forward with the narrative of the artist and their journey

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knowledge of ecologies and current policy, funding streams, of work in the sector, of where and how dancing might exist..

in what mays might producers be setting and changing policy/conditions ( example of setting a higher rate that changes practices)

Keeping people on board

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The holder of relationships

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Keeping all the balls in the air. The juggler.

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leadership, co-authoring, dramaturgical, understanding the vision, overview context, able to weave threads together in whatever context of what.

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different relationships to artists...

producers working together as a group to co-support work

holding spaces with stakeholders

What do I do that might be considered producing?

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Role in relation to resourcing slipping into and roles around the 'creative' practice...

when did we start to use the title of producing?

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how is is used in dance? how is it used in other fields?

producing student work and research events

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students learning how to produce

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Students in final year making their own work - some students choosing to focus on producing. Are courses equipping students to think about producing in a holistic way OR are courses separating out the notion of producing and practice?

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Ability to self-initiate is important

The producer is the enabler

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generic skills (e.g. technical / marketing) might be present in larger HE institutions, as opposed to specialist knowledge of artistic work (more flexible and responsive)

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HE is context and large organisations that lack flexibility

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Relationship between higher education and dance - some things are conflicting (inter-relationship between courses and relationship with the dance sector)

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Arts management courses - not specific producing courses?

Higher education is moving towards a privatized model. people studying through private providers - leading to a different type of careers.

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what is the relationship of (practice) research to audiences / the public? (only recently addressed through conversations on impact etc)

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producing of process, producing of the enquiry

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producing / thinking through a problem in process...

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Gulf between 'being a student' and life after graduating - understanding of the sector, how to survive, being a 'portfolio artist', the opportunities and the limitations - 'the energy not just to fit into it, but to change it'

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'executive producer' - strategy finance and sign off

creative producer - initiates/involved in conceptualising

'learning and participation producer'

etc

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conceptualising

resourcing

delivering

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The culture of making - having an inquiry and letting it take you somewhere - making work through active research vrs 'making a piece'

ssachsenmaier — 2024-01-18 16:10:29 UTC

Dance moving into other disciplinary contexts - practice research needed to develop new language

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producing practice research

producing as a research practice

Work Room has been industry partner in PhD analysing the value and impact of artist residency initiatives on an artists' practice. Room

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Is practice research about looking at how dance works in new contexts and hybrid contexts between dance, business, health etc and finding a language for this and developing the processes for these ways of working?

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status of dance in higher education - how far it has come...but also current instability

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Dance training now increasingly offered by private providers

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blending of dance into other disciplines -

science and dance

health and dance

tech and dance

etc

how much of this about money, status, etc

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cross sector partnerships

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dance in formed practice/outputs beyond what conventionally is recognised as dance

what are the practices - social media, non-theatre, in 'applied contexts'

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responses that are creative but also based in crisis of de-funding

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dance shifting into social spaces

dance as social work

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how has practice research opened up the nature of the type of things or perspectives we might bring to dance

What kind of knowledge does dance generate in the different contexts it might be produced?

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how do we change the value systems relate the multiple ways of doing dancing ?

What is the role of HEi education in this?

What can producers do the enable shifts in (very outdated) values?