One finger can't lift a pebble

On Wednesday 25 August, at nine o’clock in the morning, a group of Codarts students and teachers from all disciplines (the Sustainable Performance Research Group) sailed off to the former RDM shipyards. A historic place where the art of ‘making things together, of building huge, fabulous and famous ships put Holland on the map’. In the presence of this tradition the Sustainable Performance Professorship, as part of its Journey, conducted a full day’s clinic under the title of Fellowship.

People who helped us during the day: Conny Janssen (Conny Janssen Danst), Wim Keyl and Robin van Soolingen (Chu Shin).

Fellowship is about the myth of the individual. About the very thought that you, as the undivided self, are the sole operator responsible for reaching the stars. We are breaking through that myth. Because no matter how much talent they have, it isn’t until people find and take their place, and come home, that talent reveals itself and becomes evident. A good social environment is of vital importance for success. Fortunately, it is in our genes and you don’t change our genes by two hundred years of industrial revolution and a couple of decennia of increasing individualism. We are hard-wired to learn together in a social context that amazingly, much resembles the primordial community: the tribe.

Frank Heckman

Sustainable Performance Professor

Codarts, University for the Arts