Category: Arts
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The Complexities of Landscape

A warm day, high cloud slowly lowering as the day passed. Jut now the cloud obscured the low sun. With luck, we shall have rain. Here by the lake, the trees are in full color as you can see in this view out our studio windows.
Michael Watson PhD
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Embodying Story: Part Two

Sometime in my thirties I became part of a very active Playback Theatre troupe. Playback is an improvisational form in which individuals from the audience tell personal stories and the actors on stage seek to faithfully play the story back to the teller. Doing Playback well is a remarkably challenging practice, one filled with opportunities…
Michael Watson PhD
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Embodying Story

This is the first of a two-part post that was originally published in earlier this month in THE BeZINE. I’ve been making theatre for nearly as long as I can remember. My first memory of being on stage was in grade school. I was an ultra-skinny kid with a pronounced Polio limp, earning me the…
Michael Watson PhD
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Sacred Clowning

We are enjoying another lovely late summer day here is Vermont. Yesterday was forecast to be warm and dry, yet was punctuated by drenching rain. Still, there was plenty of time to be outdoors and many people were out and about, especially in the evening. In the afternoon a small songbird flew onto the porch,…
Michael Watson PhD
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