Beste Showman podcasts (2024)

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102 - Jay Gilligan Questions Showmanship & Play episode 2 1:41:09

23h ago1:41:09

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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…

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101 - Connect & Play - (Showmanship & Play 5 of 30) 41:42

8d ago41:42

41:42

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. links: Nalle's wonderful book the Clown Manifesto Support the show ... Now you can get t-sh…

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100 - the Clown and the New World - epic poem audio extravaganza 41:35

22d ago41:35

41:35

This is a celebratory episode along the lines of my previous audio poetic endeavours in episode 21 and 42. This is an epic poem which initially was called The Rime of the Ancient Merrier. Merrier |ˈmerēər| noun (mer•ri•er) 1 one who brings happiness to others. 2 a simple or special person, trad. considered blessed or touched by God. 3 a fool or a c…

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99 - Jay Gilligan Questions Showmanship & Play episode 1 (94) 1:04:47

29d ago1:04:47

1:04:47

In this episode we try something new. Jay Gilligan has listened to my new season about Play & Showmanship and he found that there were several points in the episode he wanted to know more about. He recorded some snippets with some AI app that he has and he reads me the unedited transcriptions of these and we have a great and DEEP conversation about…

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98 - the Nature of Shows & Geometry - (Showmanship & Play 4 of 30) 50:22

1M ago50:22

50:22

In this episode I make one more example of a metaphor of my own making. I believe this to be a particularly fertile example, by which I mean a deep and powerful metaphor. Using the uncanny similarity of the geometry of triangles with the process of Showmanship. Looking at the two side by side I belive we can get insights into the nature of our Craf…

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97 - Back in Las Vegas, now with Cirque du Soleil - Birthday Ramble 31:21

1M ago31:21

31:21

I didn't think it would happen. Not this birtday ramble nor that I would be back in Las Vegas, nor that I would be here with Cirque du Soleil! But I am back on all those fronts and yet again I am humbled by my own lack of ability to accurately predict the unfolding events of my life. BUT I am beyond grateful that it all conspired to be this Way. Su…

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96 - How to See through the Lens of Showmanship - (Showmanship & Play 3 of 30) 35:59

2M ago35:59

35:59

In this episode I talk about viewing the world through the lens of Showmanship. This is something I say at the beginning of each episode and it is what this podcast is all about. I talk about how to look and what the lens is. So, this episode has as its aim to allow you a clearer idea of what it means and to be able to look at the world in the same…

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95 - the Inner Ear Bone of Showmanship - (Showmanship & Play 2 of 30) 47:19

2M ago47:19

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In this episode I lay how what Showmanship is, as I see it. If we are to work out what the origins of something is, particularly if the origins lay deep in prehistory, then chances are there has been a great deal of change to the thing. Sometimes so much that it is hard to recognice it. SO, to be able to know what the origins are we must know what …

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94 - Showmanship & Play - Introduction (S&P 1 of 30) 56:14

3M ago56:14

56:14

In this episode we start a whole new project. We revert back to the format of the first 60, or so, episodes where I share my own ideas with you. The subject for this 4th season will be Showmanship & Play. Or, how Showmanship is like Play and what we can learn from seeing it as such. links: Here is a link to the whole season of PBS series about evol…

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93 - Clarity of Expression makes you a better Artist - Jay Gilligan and Frodo - pt 2 of 2 47:03

3M ago47:03

47:03

In this conversation we talk further about making choices and how learning to understand why we take the choices we do about what we do on stage we develop clarity of expression which is the foundation stone of a good artist. some of the things we talk about: -Why did you do that? I dont know is not a good enough answer. -Concretise your choices an…

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92 - Making Ideas Concrete by Making Choices - Jay Gilligan and Frodo - pt 1 of 2.m4a 40:59

4M ago40:59

40:59

In this episode I ask Jay Gilligan to tell me about how he makes his ideas concrete to his students at the circus school in Stockholm. -How this relates to performance abstract and concrete or narrative -Circus appears frivolous when seen in most cases, academic thought in universities might make contributions to unpacking how its not, but this aca…

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91 - The Importance of Intention - Ivar Hacksher, Jay Gilligan & Frodo -pt 2 of 2 1:04:06

4M ago1:04:06

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In this episoe I try to get Ivar Hackscher and Jay Gilligan to help me further my understanding about the difference between concrete and abstract performance. The topic is complex and our routes into its terrain circuitous. Some of the topics touched on: -Necessity, freedom and play. Arthus Zajonc's book Meditation as contemplative inquiry -How do…

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90 - Freedom to Make Choices - Ivar Hacksher, Jay Gilligan & Frodo - pt 1 of 2 51:31

4M ago51:31

51:31

In this episode Jay Gilligan and I talk to the wonderful teacher and artist Ivar Hacksher in his house. We talk about many things, but the underlying flavour is about making choices in art and life. some of the things we talk about: - the importance of not knowing. -making things and ideas concrete too soon. -Olle and Sarah from the stockholm galle…

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89 - the One Being Educated is YOU - Jay Gilligan, Ivar Hacksher, Erik Åberg & Your Truly - Pt 2 of 2 51:02

5M ago51:02

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In this episode Ivar Hackscher, Jay Gilligan, Erik Åberg and myself talk about education and abouyt being constant learners. Some of the topics we touch on: -What would be a good education for jugglers -A school does not have enough time to be completely open ended. Only your education in life will have that time, and even that does not have unlimi…

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88 - Listening is the Art of Life - Jay Gilligan, Ivar Hacksher, Erik Åberg & Captain Frodo - pt 1 of 2.m4a 42:40

5M ago42:40

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In this episode there are four of us talking. The audio is not quite what you have gotten used to on this high budget, high fidelity broadcasting operation, but the content is as golden as ever. It's a free flowing conversation around the topics of education, sharing our knowledge and how listening makes us better human beings. some of the topics w…

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87 - Mac King - Las Vegas Legend - 2 of 2 1:09:03

6M ago1:09:03

1:09:03

In this episode I continue my conversation with Mac King. We start out talking about Shows and performing but end up talking about books. SO, the last part of this episode is possibly the first episode of a spin off book club, where Mac and Frodo talks about books NOT relating to performing. Topics we touch on: -On performing almost exlusively in o…

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86 - Mac King - The Structure of a Masterful Magic Show - 1 of 2 1:11:22

6M ago1:11:22

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In this episode I get to have a conversation with an absolute legend of magic. He has had his own show in Las Vegas for more than 20 years! Just try and picture that. He reached out expressing his appreciation for the podcast and I hopped on the opportunity to ask him to join me for a stroll along the Way and this is part one of that. As you'll hea…

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85 - Erik Åberg - Expanding Our Artistic Practice - part 2 of 2 1:11:14

7M ago1:11:14

1:11:14

This is the second part of my conversation with juggle, inventor and thinker Erik Åberg. We talk about a whole range of interesting topics and I marvel at the depth of thought Erik shares with me. we talk about: Archiving as artistic practice. Paul Cinquevalli. Juggling history is the past, juggling today can be observed, the possible future explor…

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84 - Erik Åberg: Asking Big Questions through Juggling - Part 1 of 2 1:21:53

7M ago1:21:53

1:21:53

In this episode we bring you the first part of a conversation with Erik Åberg who at the time of recoring is writing his Ph.D about juggling. He is an extraorinary juggler with a wonderful way of thinking and finding real deep questions about juggling, writing, researching, archiving, and answering them in illuminating ways. We start out talking ab…

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83 - Another Sunset pt 3 of 3 - The Show 1:20:58

8M ago1:20:58

1:20:58

The best version of a juggling show was the written verision, or the told version of the show. The reason he chose to speak in the show was to make it more relatable. Be direct. Deliberatly casual. Every spectator gets to choose their favorite colour from a tray. Human interest and a genuie meeting of people. Choosing music. the process of making t…

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82 - Another Sunset pt 2 of 3 - Juggling in an art gallery with props you've made 1:09:07

8M ago1:09:07

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How does juggling props get made from possibility to reality. Siteswap and juggling notation colour notation for pattern. Deepening the conversation about colour and Juggling. In painting, sculpture and design colour is SO well researced which makes the task of quesiotning juggling and colour quite intimidation. Placing juggling in art context. the…

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81 - Another Sunset - Jay Gilligan - A Ten Year Long Process pt 1 of 3 1:05:13

9M ago1:05:13

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This episode I get Jay Gilligan to tell me about the incredible process that led him to the realisation of his latest show Another Sunset. From having to make props and get special balls hand sewn and hand dyed in colours never seen before in a juggling context. We talked in previous episode in season 2 about a year long process we had making Jay's…

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80 - Meet Marvelous Mario the Maker Magician, an exploration of Authenticity 1:25:03

9M ago1:25:03

1:25:03

In this episode Mario and I talk about his upcoming season in Edinburgh, he's ordered 10.000 clown noses. We talk about play and bringing up kids on the road. We talk quite a bit about family. I try to pry secrets from his process of creating emotionally engaging and unusually deep acts by getting him to tell me about his Pixar looking lamp robot a…

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79 - Jay Gilligan - Process and not having time for Everything - Stockholm Kitchen Conversation 2of2 1:15:07

10M ago1:15:07

1:15:07

Jay Gilligan and I begin our second kitchen conversation talking about the importance of documenting ones work and process and also our ongoing work in how to do this. We talk about the importance of listening back on conversations, youll be surprised at how much you missed. unpacking details you've read, or that emerge in a conversation, into a wh…

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78 - Jay Gilligan - Making your show valuable - Stockholm kitchen Conversations 1of2 1:08:22

10M ago1:08:22

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In this episode Jay Gilligan and I converse in his kitchen. We start talking about how juan Tamariz, the massively influential Spanish magician, takes control of his whole environment to create the best possible conditions for creating a magic experience. From that we talk about about how to present your needs for light and sound etc to producers a…

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77 - What's the spirit of Circus & much more with Garreth Bjaaland pt 2 of 2 49:03

11M ago49:03

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In this second part of the conversation with Gareth Bjaaland we talk about the spirit of circus. He sugests wonderfully that it might be the show must go on you can put anything in the ring and everyone is welcome. I loved this! we then talk about games, finite and infinite, we talk about serious play and serious games. This was a really fun conver…

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76 - Laughing in the Face of Death & other matters of importance with Garreth Bjaaland pt 1 of 2 1:03:57

11M ago1:03:57

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This is the first part of a great flowing conversation I had with Garreth Bjaaland, whom regular followers of the Way will remember well from our conversations about the ingredients of comedy. In this conversation we go far and wide and surprisingly deep on matters related to comedy, we look at Gareths revisions and developments on this thinking ab…

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75 - What's your Gift to the Audience - Talking with Tom Greder pt 2 of 2 1:04:26

11M ago1:04:26

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In this epidose comes the first part of a wonderful conversation I had with the knowledgable and deep thinker Tom Greder. He is a clown, a teacher and innovative creator. We talk about how to decide what to put in a Show. What does Audiences take away from your show, beyond whatever tricks or Material you present. About performing a Show and after …

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74 - Choices, Road's Taken and Not - Talking with Tom Greder pt 1 of 2 57:54

12M ago57:54

57:54

In this epidose comes the first part of a wonderful conversation I had with the knowledgable and deep thinker Tom Greder. He is a clown, a teacher and innovative creator. We talk about the pandemic and how we dealt with having no Shows. About forests real and metaphorical. We talk about choices. So much about what we do is to choose what to. includ…

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Time to Sell not Tell. 7:22

12M ago7:22

7:22

On the Showman code, @Keyeoduneye is inviting businesses and entrepreneurs to look beyond just telling their stories or pitching an idea; they need to learn how to sell to their stakeholders. (teams, staff, family, support network) He advises businesses to ensure their employees feel part of the mission by highlighting bigger goals or impacts they …

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73 - Captain Frodo's Secret Approach to Creation - Helsinki Conversations pt 3 of 3 52:02

1y ago52:02

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In this episode Jay Gilligan and I start talking about authenticity and pretty quick Jay steers the conversation into an area of my artistic process and indeed my approach to life, philosophy and art in general. I share, off the cuff my approach which I call active reading, or trasformative conersation with the environment. Support the show ... Now…

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72 - Presentation and Character - Helsinki Conversations w Jay Gilligan part 2 of 3 1:14:10

1y ago1:14:10

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In this conversation Jay Gilligan and I dig deeper into how the best presentations of any kind of Material seems to emerge, in a holistic way, from an authentic character. We arrive back at magician Dani DaOrtiz's techniques and how his whole persona, the way he uses language, is completely fused that to use some of his techniques every magician wo…

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71 - Magic, Character & Dani DaOrtiz - the Helsinki Conversations with Jay Gilligan pt 1 of 3 1:22:12

1y ago1:22:12

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In this episode Jay Gilligan and I start the conversation talking about magic and Dani Daortiz. If you haven't seen Dani's act from Penn & Teller's Fool Us then do that first. This is a link to Dani DaOrtiz's act. If you want to see Dani's unbelievably awesome, indepth explanation of all the theory which lies behind his seemingly chaotic but master…

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70 - 3rd annual Birthday Ramble 44:40

1y ago44:40

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The pandemic and I share a birthday. Sometime in the depths of the pandemic I made a broadcast trying to share some more personal goings on in regards to how I was holding up one year after the events taking place in the very first episode of this podcast The Day Showbiz Died. Then I made another birthday update, more personal and more rambling tha…

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69 - the Ingredients of Comedy pt 3 the Final Ingredients - a conversation with Gareth Bjaaland 57:39

1y ago57:39

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In this third and final part we look at more of the different types of jokes there is. This is really useful thing. Anyone who is stuck with "writers block" when they are trying to write new funny Material for a show or and act will be able to use these Ingredients as a check list for ways to make their jokes varied and hitting on all kinds of leve…

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68 - the Ingredients of Comedy pt 2 The First Ingredients - with Gareth Bjaaland 1:03:51

1y ago1:03:51

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In this episode we jump into the first of the ingredients, or joke structures and themes from Gareth Bjaaland bold and exciting attempt to reign in comedy's seemingly endless and chaotic scope. I am so into projects like this. It's valuable and useful practically as a tool to improve our craft, like getting more and varied laughs in our shows, but …

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67 - the Ingredients of Comedy pt 1 - a Conversation with Gareth Bjaaland 54:26

1y ago54:26

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Finally we are getting a brand new voice on this podcast and what a voice it is. Gareth Bjaaland is a wonderful Showman. An acrobat, icarian games, juggling, all round really funny and generous performer. The reason we got into a conversation was Gareth's project of creating a list of the 12 Ingredients of Comedy. This was such an interesting explo…

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66 - Understanding Skill Based Acts - Conversations With Jay Gilligan 1:54:16

1+ y ago1:54:16

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In this episode I attempt to get a better understanding of what a skill based act is. To do so I engage my good friend and conversational partner Jay Gilligan who is an absolute expert on this topic. How do skill based acts differ from talking acts, musical acts, or is perhaps the distinctions arbitrary? Wheter they are different in a fundamental o…

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65 - Jay Gilligan & Frodo - Reflections on Realising REFLEX 2:08:19

1+ y ago2:08:19

2:08:19

In this episode I get into a conversation with Jay Gilligan about the process of taking a show from idea to reality. It is very different to sit around and talk on facetime or messenger and shape and create a show, its very different when you pack all of your stuff into forteen suitcases and then have to get yourself to the airport and fly from Swe…

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64 - Creating New Realities - theWay 35 52:33

1+ y ago52:33

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In this episode I have a conversation with myself about shows as authentic dialogic creations. By looking at what a dialogue is and about what happens when we engage in a real conversation I believe we can glean some valuable insights that can be powerful when used in our Shows. "Only by connecting with another person, face to face, and by wholehea…

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63 - Shows Made us Human - theWay 34 48:28

1+ y ago48:28

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This is a rebuttal to all those who think art is something which is not necesarry. That it is something which we can do without. In one sense they migth be right. You can live without art, survivive, but can you thrive? I don't think so. And I don't think we would have gotten to where we are now, meaning I don't think we would have become humans wi…

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62 - the Showman's Two Homes - theWay33 29:43

1+ y ago29:43

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In todays episode we get reaquainted with the two homes which any true performer and Showman inhabits. For the Showman lives his life in the Outer Geography but much of what he does there is planning and scheming and preparing the Acts and Material which will allow him to get to his ellusive and hard to get to second home... links: here is a very c…

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61 - Exclusively Human? - theWay 32 57:02

1+ y ago57:02

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Are Shows exlusively human phenomena? Are the artful creations of other animals the same as what we human's think of as art? and is the artful behaviour of animals related to, as in the actual evolutionary antecedent of human art? ... If you want to help support this podcast it would be tremendous if you wrote a glowing review on iTunes or Spotify.…

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60 - the Show: a Creation Story - theWay 31 31:00

1+ y ago31:00

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We are moving into the realm of Shows, the fourth and final element of Showmanship. Shows are what Showfolk does. It is the doing which makes someone a Showman, it is the axel upon which all turns. To show how deep it is and important it is in the "mythology" of Showmanship I take a stanca from the Illuminated Showman's Manifesto about "the Showman…

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59 - Transforming Time into Showtime. - theWay 30 46:47

1+ y ago46:47

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This episode starts by giving a practical example of how to use the three stages of Attention/Inerest we explored last episode. Its a blow by blow description of my Tennis Racket act to illustrate how the stages of Attention can be found and also how they organically weave in an out. Then I talk about the emergence of Showtime. We are remined of th…

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58 - Transforming Your Audience's Attention - 29 theWay 39:46

1+ y ago39:46

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In this episode we talk about how to make your Audience get more out of your performance. We talk about how important it is to not just to pop balloons and put stuff on fire for your whole show, but to transform the shock of Attention into something the Audience is more involved in. This is the transformation of Attention into interest. I go on to …

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57 - the Murder of Mystery - A Showman's Guild Story 18:47

1+ y ago18:47

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This episode ventures into a terrain we've not explored before. I will recount two stories, one is more of a prose poem, and one a more traditional story. Both have been lingering in the Carnival Chronicles of my Craft diaries for the longest time. The Murder of Mystery was written in 2010 and the first piece in the intro, called the Soul of the Ca…

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56 - Curator of Time and Attention - theWay 28 38:08

1+ y ago38:08

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This episode celebrates how great it is to work in a circus with other showfolk. Then I go on to explore what can be said to be the shared activity of all performers, what is it that a poet, a juggler, a dancer, and a teacher all have do? What part of what they do is the bit that unites them all into the sphere of the Showman archetype? Links: Mari…

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55 - A One Man Circus, a conversation about creation with Morgan James 2:21:47

1+ y ago2:21:47

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In this episode I talk to Morgan James about our collaborative process in creating his, now, multi-award winning show A One Man Circus. I have had the pleasure of hanging virtually with this driven and entrepeneurial showman for the last year and I had a lot of fun exploring and revisiting some of the insights and the ways we arrived at the decisio…

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54 - Attention Creates Your Reality - theWay 27 49:18

1+ y ago49:18

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This episode explores the moral implications of Attention on us showfolk, it also delves into how Showmanship is present in monkeys and the great apes, it explains how Attention allows oddballs and how individuals that might appear to be evolutionary dead ends can climb the ladder of social hierarchies. Most importantly this episode expands the con…

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