RSVP Cycles
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RSVP cycles is a system of creatively methodology for collaboration. It was developed by Anna Halprin
, an American dancer, and her husband, the landscape architect Lawrence Halprin
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The title refers to its four components:
Resources – Anything that can be used in the process, including time, physical materials, other people, ideas, limitations etc.
Score – Instructions for the work. This can be identified along a gradient scale of being an Open or a Closed score.
Valuaction – A process of dynamically responding to the work based on values.
Performance – Setting the work in motion.
Within each stage there is a micro-cycle, which includes all the other elements (e.g. scoring the resources, resourcing the performance, performing the score etc). There is no set order in which stages should be completed, and one can jump from any element to any other element as long as there is consensus.
Anna Halprin
Anna Halprin helped pioneer the experimental art form known as postmodern dance and referred to herself as the breaker of modern dance. Halprin, along with her contemporaries such as Trisha Brown, Simone Forti, Yvonne Rainer, John Cage, and Robert Morris, collaborated and built a community based...
, an American dancer, and her husband, the landscape architect Lawrence Halprin
Lawrence Halprin
Lawrence Halprin was an influential American landscape architect, designer and teacher.Beginning his career in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, in 1949, Halprin often collaborated with a local circle of modernist architects on relatively modest projects. These figures included William...
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The title refers to its four components:
Resources – Anything that can be used in the process, including time, physical materials, other people, ideas, limitations etc.
Score – Instructions for the work. This can be identified along a gradient scale of being an Open or a Closed score.
Valuaction – A process of dynamically responding to the work based on values.
Performance – Setting the work in motion.
Within each stage there is a micro-cycle, which includes all the other elements (e.g. scoring the resources, resourcing the performance, performing the score etc). There is no set order in which stages should be completed, and one can jump from any element to any other element as long as there is consensus.