RSVP

Had an intriguing conversation with a playwright yesterday about a creative methodology for collaboration called RSVP cycles.  A quick search for this term unearthed a Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSVP_cycles in which this theory is attributed to Anna and Lawrence Halprin and Jim Burns.

The letters in the acronym RSVP stands for:

Resources: anything we have to make a production happen.  Money, space, time, actors, director, etc.

Score: the written guidelines for performing the production.

Valuation: reviewing process of the work.  Rehearsals, notes, re-writes.

Performance: running the piece.

The point the playwright was making to me was that every creation of a project follows these same steps, and could be applied to a project I execute in my career in finance or in my creative pursuit as an actor and producer.  Fascinating stuff!