Can Dance Help Your Business? A talk by Lucy Field at BHive Covent Garden
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Can dance help your business? What you can learn from the dancer’s mindset to enhance creativity and productivity with Lucy Field Photo Credits: Pari Naderi, Benedict Johnson & Belinda Lawley
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Can Dance Help Your Business? A talk by Lucy Field at BHIve Covent Garden, August 2011 Looking at how the dance mindset can boost creativity and productivity in business
Transcript of Can Dance Help Your Business? A talk by Lucy Field at BHive Covent Garden
Can dance help your business?
What you can learn from the dancer’s mindset to enhance creativity and
productivity with Lucy Field
Photo Credits: Pari Naderi, Benedict Johnson & Belinda Lawley
Overview
Why dance?
Dancer’s mindset
How dancers work - portfolio lifestyle
Dance moves at your desk
Dance benefits
www.lucyfield.com
Lucy’s Story
Trained at Laban BA hons (1999-2002)
Started freelance career as graduate in
teaching & choreography (2002)
Dance Artist in Residence,
DanceXchange (2004-05)
Programme Manager, Centre for
Advanced Training, The Place
(2005-2011)
Independent Dance Specialist (2011)
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‘Dance is an art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting.’
‘Definitions of what constitutes dance are dependent on social, cultural, aesthetic, artistic and moral constraints and range from functional movement (such as folk dance) to virtuoso techniques such as ballet.’
‘Dance can be participatory, social or performed for an audience. It can also be ceremonial, competitive or erotic. Dance movements may be without significance in themselves, or have a gestural vocabulary/symbolic system. Dance can embody or express ideas, emotions or tell a story.’
Wikipedia 2011
Dance?
Dancer’s mindset:as an individual
•Passion
•Talent
•Dedication and commitment
•Desire to get things right - rehearsal
•Creativity – tasks, limitations
•Taking risks – mistakes are to be learnt
from, not feared
•Open to change
•Self-belief
•Accepting failure is part of success
•Evaluative/reflective skills
•Enjoyment
Motivational Climate
Psychological atmosphere or achievement environment in
which dancers train and perform (e.g. Ames, 1984, 1992; Nicholls, 1984)
Task-involving Ego-involving
Learning Self-referenced Other-referenced
Peer relations Cooperation Rivalry
Mistakes Part of learning Punished
Focus Effort Success
From TrinityLaban research into Motivational Climate & Perfectionism among Young Dancers, MDS National Dance Centres for Advanced Training - TrinityLaban, London: Sanna M. Nordin-Bates ImogenJ. Walker Emma Redding Collaborators, University of Birmingham: Eleanor Quested Joan L. Duda
www.trinitylaban.ac.uk
Dancer’s mindset:in a team
In a company:
•Cooperation
•Trust
•Problem-solving
•Having fun
As a community
•Belief in access
•Supporting other’s work
•Collaboration
Choreography traits for business
Choreography is intricate problem solving: Know your own style Knowing what inspires you Start with an idea then develop variations Being decisive - not being afraid of cutting
what doesn’t work Environment – being somewhere that
stimulates you
Building a company: Selecting the right people at audition/
interview (deep understanding of who will be right for you)
Working towards a vision Cooperation Enabling them to be on their game
(company class) Professional development - transient
How this relates to you
What drives you?
How do you stay motivated?
What are the motivational factors for your team members?
How can you foster passion within your company?
What motivational climate do you set within your company?
What passions/interests do they have and could this be incorporated into their work?
‘A work portfolio is a
way of describing how
the different bits of
work in our life fit
together to form a
balanced whole.’
Charles Handy, The Age of Unreason (1989)
Natural Portfolio Workers
Look at your whole life
(‘Buliding A Portfolio Career’ McCrudden, Bourne & Lyons)
Paid work
Study work
Home work
Gift work
Time for you
Your Portfolio
•Posture
•Breath
•Core stability
•Upper body
•Lower body
•Spine
Physical Benefits
Turn your workspace into a movement friendly environment!
Seated, standing and floor exercises for:
Further Benefits
Dance changes lives
Youth Dance Englandwww.yde.org.uk
The Water Project - work with the homelesswww.theplace.org.uk/482/water-project/the-water-project.html
CandoCo - an integrated dance companywww.candoco.co.uk
Dance United - those who are marginalisedwww.dance-united.com
Company of Elders - over 60s companywww.sadlerswells.com/page/company-of-elders
David Allen Harris - ex-child soldiers, Sierra Leone www.global-wellbeing.org
Next Steps
Taking sessions for yourself:www.theplace.org.uk
www.danceworks.net
www.trinitylaban.ac.uk/education-community
www.danceuk.org (reources > navigating the dance world)
Bringing dance into the workplace
Making dance part of an away day or
team-building activity
Could your business support dance?
How can you get involved?
