Episodes
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In November it's Nick Difatte month along the Way of the Showman. We have a wideranging and circuitous conversation. We touch on the following topics and many more.
What is a masterclassSecrets
Nick’s book Offbeat by Squash Publishing is sold out, but will be back in print…
It’s got essays one which was a big topic in the previous episode with Nick (E113)
Mentor Tyler Ericson.
Learning cheating
Secret collecting. And becoming overwhelmed by having too many tricks. Many of those who have the most tricks have non to perform when asked.
What’s being displayed in secrets is what you see. Magic what’s “really going on” is hidden.
Oriental magic done by white folks. Okito, Fu Manchu, Chung Ling Soo by Jim Steinmeier.
The importance of being fooled to remember what it’s like. Rekindle the passion.
The importance of searching for secrets to value them.
Amateurs doing it for the love of it, not the money. Using the money they make from work to buy secrets.
Old men in magic. SO old they piss their pants…
We talk about what we wanted to talk about the next time. Do we follow up these things? Tune into next episode to find out…
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After last weeks little sidetrack exploring m own evolving relationship of love to my daughter we are ready to conclude how love is the foundation and origin for the human play impulse and drive. This of course will be pointing at how love is also the foundation of Showmanship. Love is necesary to full acknowledge the existence of Others, and to enter into a relationship with them is to reach out in love. In doing so we enter into the relaxed field of human interaction. A way not just of plaing, but of affording ourselves and others a space to maximize their freedom.
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Over the last six months or so there has been a development in my relationship to my daughter. It is something any father will go through, but I look at it through the lens of a travelling performer. My daughter is growing up and is beginning to find her own way in the world. She is separating and becoming herself and in the process I am being left behind. But a significant development that has come to fruition over the last month might offer us a way to relate into the future. A sollution that mirrors my own relationship to my father and which is continuing the intergenerational transmission of the secret knowledge of Showmanship.
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In this episode I explore the impact and influence our playful behaviour has had on our development as human beings. I belive it quite profoundly have changed not just our psychology and behaviour but also our bodies.
I share a deeply personal story of the first couple of hours in my daughter's life and how it birthed a new and deeper kind of love.
The father's role in raising babies and children.
The tribe's role in raising babies and children.
The love, which first appeared in Mother grew to include the father and the tribe and in this we all played a role in affording a child a relaxed field, where that child can flourish outside of the restriction of natural selection. Where the child gets to express only themselves and act only in accordance with themselves. (in an idealised situation of course as there always will be tribal, societal, and individual influences)
Child is a social glue. It brings us together in the childbirth, in the rearing of the child, it connects us. It continues in how families are brought together through our shared interest and care for and responsibility for the child.
We sit around the fire like we sit around a child.
they trigger conversations and stories that emerge because we sit around a child. They shape us and the stories we tell. THere are other stories told around the fire in the dark, and there are particular stories that are told because there are children are present.
RELAXED FIELD - the space where play happens and where we are the most fully human.
relaxed pressure from the four f's
foraging, fighting, fleeing and fornicating.
which is what we have to do. (if we dont o these succesfully we perish)
the things we choose to do. (what we choose to do with the time given to us)Support the show
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Jay Gilligan is back! we go through his questions about episodes 103 & 104 to concretise some of the points I am making about Play and performance.
some of the topics we touch=:
-How to foster a playful connection at the beginning of your show.
-Is there such a thing as a bad audience?
-fulfilling audience expectations whilst still surprising them.
-In facing the Audience we are showing, and they are receiving - yet we expect and desire them to participate, to live themselves into the performance. Without which there never emerges the full Show experience.
-You get Attention by giving Attention.
-My ways of getting Attention in my first street show back in 1997.
-Jay runs away from a street show with crazy consequences.
-All focus on one thing. Audience and Showman alike. Makes a powerful point.
-We create a different kind of time. Play time. Sacred time.Support the show
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Why are we born so helpless. The answer will takes us through the history of human evolution and into the dualling biological need of a growing human head and the anatomical changes coming from our upright walking.
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In this episode I talk about
Peter Gray and his book Free to Learn - Why unleasing the instinc to play will make our children happier, more self-reliant, and better students for life.
We talk about how play is learning.
how we today think about play as something which is dont to children. Not something they actively participate and even lead.
for 10.000 years + kids have been learning all by themselves - THROUGH PLAY
Kids play themselve into useful members of their communities.
When we play we are FREE in a way we arent in other aspects of life.
Chimpanzees learn by looking, not by being taught.
The amount of things infants needs to learn is almost insurmountable
Playfully participating in life gets imbedded in us and helps us emotionally able to deal with life.
WIthout playing in childhood you can get difficulties in your emotional connections with others as an adult. ANd many other problems become more prevalent.
Kids has the strongest desire to play because the have the most to learn.
Playful aproaches to the world affords more possibilites. It increases your degrees of freedom.
The colonialisation of childhood by others.
Abusing play as a tool for teaching.
BUT play needs to be self motivated. It needs to be voluntary.
Adults think play is useful only when it can be harnessed to teach something from the decided upon by adults from the curriculum.
Learning happens INSIDE the school and play outside. This is a subtle indoctrination.
The serious that happens inside the classroom is of value. The time wasting play happens outside in recess.
Play is learning as nature intended it for us. Driven by enthusiasm and not to do well on a standardized test.
Playing teaches each of us how to be ourselves! It shows us who we are!
Learning is not JUST what happens in schools.
its not something you buys. Its what you do in the process of developing yourself as a human being.
Biology does not give us built in answers to what it means to be a human. It has given a method to aquire answers. This method is play. This way of being in the world is HOW evolution has equiped us to find ourselves and our WAY.
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Genes and biology isn’t giving us readymade answers hardwired to solve the difficulties of becoming and staying human. Instead of giving us answers which, as all answers, can be right or wrong, or useful or useless, nature has given us a process to aquire answers. Evolution gave us a method, or an approach to generate answers, not individual answers. This process is play. Perhaps schoolsSupport the show
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This is a conversation with one of the funniest guys I know. He's had me laughing so hard I had to get partially undressed.
We talk about magic and comedy and their intersection before landing on a long explorations of how to select and manage audience volunteers. Nick is an expert at handling volunteers and gets SO much out of the people he gets up, I try to learn from him.
You can find out about Nick Difatte on his website
Nick has written a brilliant book on magic called Offbeat (it's sold out but will soon be reissued) published by Squash Publishing creators of some of the hottest books on magic.
we talk about:
the Great Santini's toaster (my dad's magic invention)
Steen Pegani - danish magic shop owner and all around good guy.
Mortenn Christiansen - link to him on Penn & Teller's Fool Us
Nick blows my mind with the news that he is writing and editing a chapter in Richard Kaufman's re-release of Greater Magic. The chapter will be on comedy magic.
Borrowin/stealing/reinventing
becoming an original performer.
saving the earth with a yo yo
Authenticity
Finding shit no one cares about
costume as character amplifier and definer
me loosing my shit seeing Nick perform for the first time.
worst "emotional speech" in a show ever...
being funnier off sage and how to transfer this to stage.
choosing volunteers
offbeat, Nick's book is sold out.
Amazing Johnatan as example of a masterful use of and control of audience volunteers.
Nick on getting along with older guys and how to harness this in his ShowsSupport the show
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In this episode I continue describing the ways we find the play impulse, or the activity of play, manifesting in the world. I start by talking about learning.
-The next way play emerges is through Imagination.
-Then we look at how, quite obviously, play manifest thorugh actual playfulness.
-We procede to Sociality.
-Then I find in Rutger Bregman's summary of these manifestations into "Learn, bond and Play."Support the show
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Adults and children spend their days differently - we work, babies play. Play is the signature of childhood. It’s a living, visible manifestation of imagination and learning I action.
Allison Gopnik
If play is a constant and a genuine human drive, how do we recognise it when we see it in the world? Or more specifically; in which kind of behaviours does play manifest itself? We have looked at the five specific criteria, or characteristics of play, it’s fun and enjoyable, seemingly purposeless, it’s self motivated, there are rules involved, and it’s a free and imaginative improvisation. Each of these five criteria are characteristics of the process we call play, but in the same way a person is multifaceted and must be expressed through more than five specific features, I would expect that we could get a better grasp of what the play instinct looks like by finding more ways it manifests itself in the world. What kind of behaviours or attributes are playful? To answer this question I think it would be good to start looking at those who plays the most, those whom for play is their natural way of being in the world; children.
Then I look at the first of the manifestations of the play impulse which I believe is curiosity.
Links:
Here's some info on Ashley Montague.
Here's the goodreads link to Montague's book Growing Young and here's a write up about the book in the New York Times
This is an interview with Tyson Yunkaporta who's wonderful book Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World is a good and worthwhile read.Support the show
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"Instincts are the whispers of our ancestors." - Quote by yours truly.
In this episode we explore whether our inclination to play might actually be an innate human drive. Do we human beings possess an instinct to play? If so, how and why would something like that evolve?
By understanding how something came into being we often learn valuable lessons today. Also, if it turns out that humans does have a play instinct, and I believe we do, then this is a powerful indicator that play is a whole lot more important than "just something kids do."
Links:
To unpack the concept of flow a little more here is a TED talk by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi who coined the term.
Maileg Mice - a link so you can see how these cute Danish toy mice looks.
Peter Gray is an American psychology researcher and scholar we will talk about Along the Way. Here is a TED talk by him so you can familiarize yourself with him and his ideas. And here is a longer talk about Learning Through Play
Here's a link to the article about injuries in children's sports:
"sports injuries are the second leading cause of emergency room visits for children and adolescents, and the second leading cause of injuries in school."
Finite and infinite games by James CarseSupport the show
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In this episode I finish up the unpacking of the five criteria of play. As we go on these five points will be the backbone of our inquiry. Much like how using Showman - Audience & Show as a symbol or mnemonic picture which affords us a lot of understanding, these five criteria will expand our understanding of play, and by transferral how it connects and relates to all aspects of life.
The five are as follows:
1 - Play is fun. It’s intensely pleasurable and enjoyable. So when we play we don’t want it to stop.
2 - Play is self motivated, which means it has to be entered into voluntarily.
3 - Play is apparently purposeless. We play for the sake of playing not to achieve some further goal.
4 - Play has rules.
5 - Play is imaginative and improvisational.
Links:
The Norwegian book called Lek og Læring i et Nevro perspektiv (play and learning in a neuro perspective) Here are some links, One, two, three. The third one is a link to a podcast with an interview with one of the two authors. BE WARNED the links are all in Norwegian, but with the help of google and our AI overlords you'll be reading it in no time, in a language more suitable to your horizon of understanding.
the Kingdom of Childhood episode of the Way of the Showman
Peter Gray's Aeon.co article on Play Deficit
For your selfstudy: Henri Bergson on the possible and the actual.
Finite and infinite games by James CarseSupport the show
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In this episode I talk to Jellyboy the Clown about his book Memoirs of a Coney Island Clown. I learn a lot about him and how closely our experiences mirror eachother. There are some tragic details about suicide in this episode - be warned, if you need such a warning.
"Embark on an unforgettable journey alongside Jelly Boy in "Memoirs of a Coney Island Clown: Jellyboy's Sideshow Saga." Following the heart-wrenching loss of his brother, Jelly Boy is catapulted into a whirlwind of unexpected adventures. From the depths of grief to the serendipitous role of a clown, his odyssey defies convention at every turn."
I loved reading the book and I think you'll love it too! You can order a copy here: https://outsidetalkerpress.bigcartel.com/product/memoirs-of-a-coney-island-clown-jellyboy-s-sideshow-sagaSupport the show
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In this episode I continue to unpack the five criterias of play. The five are as follows:
1 - Play is fun. It’s intensely pleasurable and enjoyable. So when we play we don’t want it to stop.
2 - Play is self motivated, which means it has to be entered into voluntarily.
3 - Play is apparently purposeless. We play for the sake of playing not to achieve some further goal.
4 - Play has rules.
5 - Play is imaginative and improvisational.
Links:
The Norwegian book called Lek og Læring i et Nevro perspektiv (play and learning in a neuro perspective) Here are some links, One, two, three. The third one is a link to a podcast with an interview with one of the two authors. BE WARNED the links are all in Norwegian, but with the help of google and our AI overlords you'll be reading it in no time, in a language more suitable to your horizon of understanding.
the Kingdom of Childhood episode of the Way of the Showman
Peter Gray's Aeon.co article on Play Deficit
For your selfstudy: Henri Bergson on the possible and the actual.
Finite and infinite games by James Carse
This is a link to a talk by Doctor Stuart Brown who's the author of “Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul” (2010) by Stuart BrownSupport the show
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In this episode Jay Gilligan brings up a few questions relating to episodes 3 & 4 in my exploration of Showmanship and Play (number 96 & 98).
-We talk about what its like to talk to people about something which does not have an easy answer. A fortune cookie once told me "to every complex problem there is always a simple answer - and its usually wrong."
-Jay asks if my process exhausts me. Always keeping all kinds of writing and projects searching for connections in me, does that exhaust me?
-Why find connections? Why map one thing onto others?
-What does it mean to be an artist.
-Metaphor is a way to access reality. How metaphor and imagination affords us our understanding of the world (and ourselves)
-Seeing similarity through dissimilarities. Discover greater patterns. Lakof and Johnston Metaphors we Live by.
-My new presentation of the classic magic trick called the Die Box.
-Jay asks me: Did you come up with the concept Active reading?
we explore where it came from and how its influenced Jay's thinking.
-Responsibility to engage with tasks and challanges whether in life of in circus school.
-We got to be actively engaged in whats happening. When we are doing our thing, but also when others are doing that.
-I say we need to be able to develop a language and way to understand all the "other Disciplines" as reality is you will most likely be in shows with other artists which does other things than you. Each circus most commonly only hires one juggler. One guy squeezing through tennis rackets.
We have a responisility to make a task in school, or a thing in real life, interesting. If the task or challange sucks. Change it and make it good....Support the show
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You'll find the store here: https://thewayoftheshowman.printdrop.com.au
If you want to help support this podcast it would be tremendous if you wrote a glowing review on iTunes or Spotify.
If you want to contact me about anything, including wanting me to collaborate on one of your projects you can reach me on [email protected]
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In this episode I catch up with an old friend, a unique and philosophically inclined comedian and clown Mr Trent Birdmann. We talk about our shows together, our thoughts on our past, present and the uncertainties about the future. We share stories and insights about our lives as Showmen trying to make it in the modern world.
You can find Trent Baumann on Instagramm and Facebook by searching for his name.
You can find out more about him on his website.Support the show
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Now you can get t-shirts and hoodies with our wonderful logo. This is the best new way to suport the podcast project. Become a proud parader of your passion for Showmanship and our glorious Craft whilst simultanously helping to gather more followers for the Way.
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If you want to help support this podcast it would be tremendous if you wrote a glowing review on iTunes or Spotify.
If you want to contact me about anything, including wanting me to collaborate on one of your projects you can reach me on [email protected]
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If you find it in you and you have the means to do so, you can suport the podcast financially at:
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In this episode I unpack the five criterias of play. The five are as follows:
1 - Play is fun. It’s intensely pleasurable and enjoyable. So when we play we don’t want it to stop.
2 - Play is self motivated, which means it has to be entered into voluntarily.
3 - Play is apparently purposeless. We play for the sake of playing not to achieve some further goal.
4 - Play has rules.
5 - Play is imaginative and improvisational.
Links:
The Norwegian book called Lek og Læring i et Nevro perspektiv (play and learning in a neuro perspective) Here are some links, One, two, three. The third one is a link to a podcast with an interview with one of the two authors. BE WARNED the links are all in Norwegian, but with the help of google and our AI overlords you'll be reading it in no time, in a language more suitable to your horizon of understanding.
the Kingdom of Childhood episode of the Way of the Showman
Peter Gray's Aeon.co article on Play Deficit
For your selfstudy: Henri Bergson on the possible and the actual.
Finite and infinite games by James Carse
This is a link to a talk by Doctor Stuart Brown who's the author of “Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul” (2010) by Stuart BrownSupport the show
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In this episode I take you on a walk with my little dog Teddy and along the Way we encounter play in a very direct way.
Then I let you take a sneak peak at my daughter and her kind of play.
Then we look at trying to define play is like pinning a butterfly.
From all these examples I distill the nature of play down to five criteria which will be the backbone of all our future explorations. SO, being this important I will write them out here so the two or three of you who reads this can benefit.
The five criteria of play:
1 - Play is fun. It’s intensely pleasurable and enjoyable. So when we play we don’t want it to stop.
2 - Play is self motivated, which means it has to be entered into voluntarily.
3 - Play is apparently purposeless. We play for the sake of playing not to achieve some further goal.
4 - Play has rules.
5 - Play is imaginative and improvisational.Support the show
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In this episode Jay Gilligan asks me to explain and elaborate some details about a previous episode. The main part of this season (4) is the 30 episodes that explores and makes my argument for how the very deepest origins of Showmanship can be found in human play as well as building a powerful argument for this dual trait of Showmanship & Play lies at the heart of what it means to be a human being.
The episodes deals with some very deep and philosophical ideas and my friend and co-host thought it would be good to make me explainmyself some more. For this I am truly greatful and I hope it is useful and interesting for you to Fellow Traveller.
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This is a link to an essay by Henri Corbin about the Imaginal. It's called Mundus Imaginalis or the Imaginary and the ImaginalAs I mention in the opening comments of the episode I confuse Henri Corbin with the wonderful french philosopher Henri Bergson. My mistake only goes as far as claiming I watched a lecture course on him, but that course was actually about Bergson, not Corbin. So, when it comes down to it I know more about Bergson than Corbin and this lecture course is why. Here is a link to that lecture series about Henri Bergson. Its from the excellent youtube channel Absurd Being.
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In this episode I seek general features of what happens in the Area of Interest, or in Shows. I talk about Nalle Laanela's book the Clown Manifesto and how it helped me understand that two key features of performance and Shows are Connection and Playfulness.
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Nalle's wonderful book the Clown ManifestoSupport the show
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