California Institute of Integral Studies
Faculty Member, Transformative Leadership
About
I have lived an improvised life. Variations have been on themes of sustainable creativity; social justice; inter- and intracultural communication; and construction of community. Art and education come together in my approach to music and performance and in research. I co-founded the notable music/performance ensemble United Front, known for its originality, imagination and cultural synthesis. For three decades I have produced the performance series Music At Large which has featured the interdisciplinary work of dancers, poets, actors and musicians. The liberal arts are appropriately inclusive of the art of performance, a most liberating art. The tradition of ideas in the Western culture shares common seeds with human thought in general, and this is often expressed creatively through music and other art forms. Within the field of creativity, there is improvisation, the formless form. And, through its formlessness, improvisation participates throughout the range of spontaneous human endeavors, while at the same time it is a co-participant in the development of the most complex achievements.
In addition to my work as a performer, I have been a lecturer and adjunct faculty at Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, California, since 2000. I have taught there in both the Traditional Undergraduate Program as well as in the School of Extended Education. I have taught core courses, including seminars in Multicultural Thought, 19th and 20th Century thought; first- and second-year Mathematics for the Integral Program (Euclid’s Elements, Ptolemy and Apollonius); and The Improvisational Context as an elective course.
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