Myths for Mutual Pedagogy 1: Creation

22nd October 2017Minus Plato Today, Myths for Mutual PedagogyAnna Halprin, Apollonius of Rhodes, Aristophanes, Creation Myth, Enuma Elish, Genesis, Hesiod, Mythology, Myths for Mutual Pedagogy, Ovid, Phoenician cosmogonies, Theogony of Dunnu, VirgilMinus Plato

You are teaching a Classical Mythology class and you have reached the topic of “Creation Stories” (either this is early in the course or later, after “Epic Myths”). In today’s class you want to compare and contrast ancient Greek, Roman and Near-Eastern myths about the origins of the universe. You will discuss (and the students […]

Teaching Together: Bringing Anna Halprin’s “Myths” into the Classroom

21st October 2017Minus Plato Today, Myths for Mutual TeachingAnna Halprin, documenta 14, Myths, Myths for Mutual PedagogyMinus Plato

I first encountered the work of choreographer Anna Halprin at documenta 14 this summer when I was stopped in my tracks by a diagram showing one of her Myth performances from 1967 in at Documenta-Halle in Kassel. Halprin describes the Myths as follows: Myths are experimental…What unfolds is a spontaneous exploration of ideas. Myths are meant to […]