Montauk Yacht Club, Montauk, New York
Friday, October 12 – Sunday, October 14, 2001

A cross-disciplinary happening…. scholars, therapists, health and helping 
professionals, educators, business professionals, community builders, 
performers, artists – and the irrepressibly curious – will come together to 
learn from each other and create new horizons of possibility.

Conversations, panels, workshops and performances will explore the rich 
potential of performance for social change. 
 
 

What's happening WHEN: 

Friday, October 12, 5:00 – 10:00 PM

PLENARY SESSIONS

Ken Gergen and Fred Newman 
Performance:  Act Before You Think 
Kenneth J. Gergen is Mustin Professor of Psychology, Swarthmore College and a 
cofounder of the Taos Institute.  He is an associate editor of Theory & 
Psychology and American Psychologist.  Ken’s recent books include Realities 
and Relationships:  Soundings in Social Constructionism; The Saturated Self; 
and An Invitation to Social Construction.  [Ken – please change as you wish]

Fred Newman is creator of social therapy and founder of the East Side 
Institute for Short Term Psychotherapy and of Performance of a Lifetime.  He 
is also artistic director of the Castillo Theatre.  His work as psychotherapist and playwright is greatly influenced by his training in the philosophy of science and language and his years as a political and community organizer.  Fred’s is the author of several books, including The End of  Knowing:  A New Developmental Way of Learning and Performance of a Lifetine: A Practical-Philosophical Guide to the Joyous Life, and 30 plays.

Lenora Fulani, Pam Lewis and Members of the All Stars Talent Show Network
Growing Up Performed: Youth and Performance
Lenora Fulani is a developmental psychologist and political leader of the 
independent political movement in the United States.  She is co-producer of 
the All Stars Talent Show Network and co-director of the Development School 
for Youth, two projects that utilize the performatory social therapeutic 
approach developed by the East Side Institute for Short Term Psychotherapy.  
She is the author of The Making of a Fringe Candidate 1992 and editor of The 
Psychopathology of Everyday Racism and Sexism.

Pam Lewis, singer and actor, is the director of the All Stars Talent Show 
Network, the nation’s most successful youth anti-violence program.  She has 
worked closely with thousands of Black and Latino youth in New York’s poorest 
neighborhoods and is recognized as one of the country’s top youth organizers. 
She is co-director of the Development School for Youth, a leadership 
training program and, overall, Director of Youth Programs for the All Stars 
Project, Inc.
 

Saturday, October 13, 9:00 AM – 10:00 PM 

PLENARY SESSIONS

Arthur Penn 
Little Big Man: Film as Social Construction
Acclaimed director Arthur Penn has been at the helm of 16 feature films (The 
Miracle Worker, Bonnie and Clyde, Alice’s Restaurant and Little Big Man) and 
12 Broadway plays ("Two For the See Saw," "Toys In the Attic," and "All The 
Way Home").  Mr. Penn is a Trustee of The New School and served as President 
of the Actor’s Studio.

Dan Friedman 
Mundane Performance: Performance Outside the Theatre
Dan Friedman is the dramaturg at the Castillo Theatre in New York City. In 
that capacity he speaks and publishes frequently on the work of Castillo and 
postmodern political theatre. He is co-editor, with Bruce McConachie, of 
Theatre for Working Class Audiences in the United States, 1830-1980 and 
editor of Still on the Corner and Other Postmodern Political Plays by Fred 
Newman.  Dan is also a director and the author or co-author of 14 plays.

FOCUS SESSIONS

Performance in Organizational Development Improvisation and Organizational Life – Frank Barrett, Fielding Institute Bringing Improvisation to Life...and Work – David Nackman & Cathy Salit,  Performance of a Lifetime   All The World’s A Stage: Your Voice Is Power – Sandra McKnight, Voice Power Studios

Reshaping Expertise and Agency through the Performance of Conversation:
Doctor-Patient, Therapist-Client, and Teacher-Student Communication:  A Duet between Patient and Doctor – Susan Massad, MD, Long Island College Hospital; Member, American Academy on Physician and Patient Educational Performance – Sheila McNamee, University of New Hampshire

Therapeutic Change Performing Therapeutic Realities – Harlene Anderson, Houston Galveston Institute The Therapy of Performance – Bette Braun and Christine LaCerva, East Side Center for Social Therapy

Youth Development through PerformanceRochelle Fabb, Pacific Institute for Women’s HealthAll Stars Project, Inc.

Exploring Personal Myth – Emily Nash, Creative Alternatives of New York

Healing as Performance – Raquel Romberg, Anthropologist and folklorist, 
Swarthmore College

Five Poems by Peggy Penn (from her book, So Close) – Peggy Penn, Ackerman 
Family Institute

Besame Mucho: A Hypertext on Love -- Osvaldo Romberg, Artist 

Plus Open Sessions for demonstrations, performances, dialogues, videos and 
installations by other participants

Special Evening Performance
The Castillo Theatre Ensemble
"To Be Or Not To Be (Or Neither or Both)"
To Be Or Not To Be (Or  Neither or Both) is a montage of scenes and songs 
culled from 400 years of western dramatic literature and theatrical fun.  It 
is the product of an intense, eleven-month workshop process in which artistic 
director Fred Newman and the Castillo theatre ensemble explored the plays and 
playwrights that influenced them and contributed to the emergence of 
Castillo’s unique postmodern political theatre.

Sunday, October 14, 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM 

PLENARY SESSIONS

Susan Jaffe
Dance as Growthful Play
Susan Jaffe joined the American Ballet Theatre – one of the most prestigious 
companies in the world – in 1980 and made her debut with the Company at the 
Kennedy Center in December, dancing "Pas d'Esclave" from Le Corsaire with 
Alexander Godunov.  She became a Soloist in 1981 and was promoted to 
Principal Dancer in 1983.  Ms. Jaffe's roles with the Company include Giselle 
and Myrta in Giselle, Hanna Glawari in The Merry Widow, the pas de deux Other 
Dances, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, Odette-Odile in Swan Lake and Katherina 
in The Taming of the Shrew.  Ms. Jaffe has danced as a guest artist with 
companies around the world, including the English National Ballet, the Kirov 
Ballet, The Royal Danish Ballet, The Royal Swedish Ballet, La Scala Ballet in 
Milan, The Royal Ballet and the Vienna State Opera Ballet.

FOCUS SESSIONS
 
Scholarship as Performance Relational Realities: Performing Theory – Mary Gergen and Kenneth Gergen,  Penn State University & Swarthmore College 
Studying the Unstudiable: The Case of Social Therapy – Lois Holzman, 
Performance of a Lifetime 

Improvisation for Activists:  Where Does the Conversation Begin? – Terry 
Greiss,  Irondale Ensemble Project

Directing and Waiting for Godot: A Scholar Practices his Art – John Shotter, 
University of New Hampshire.

Theatre of Empowerment – Jonathan Shailor, University of Wisconsin

Dance and the Body Politic – Kay Picart, Florida State University

Relational Aesthetics/Aesthetic Relations – Carol Philips, Harvard University 
Graduate School of Education

Performing Sex and Intimacy --Barbara Silverman, "Let’s Talk About It," 
Erasmus High School

Plus Open Sessions for demonstrations, performances, dialogues , videos and 
installations by other participants

For registratioin and other information, go to 
http://www.performingtheworld.org   or 
www.performanceofalifetime.com