BLUEPALM - Core Beliefs

“Placing creativity at the heart of a framework for weaving new interpersonal connections, Jackie Planeix and Tom Crocker developed, through art, a common terrain that transformed every participant.”

Maguy Marin, Director, Compagnie Maguy Marin

What is our mission?

Bluepalm’s mission is to encourage high quality performance and communication using the tenets of artistic excellence; we engage in partnerships that establish passion, rigor, and innovation as critical components for sustainable success in the 21st century.

WHAT DO WE OFFER?

Bluepalm provides consulting, training workshops, seminars, and community-building projects:

Living Language: Think fast. Play with ideas. Convince. Be yourself, in English as in French.
Consulting/Training: ‘Think like an artist’ to effect meaningful, sustainable change.
Arts Education: Integrate. Express. Cultivate.
Dance and Theatre: Community through art, art through community.

WHAT are our core beliefs?

art distinguishes us as human beings
physical and emotional engagement maximizes performance
creativity flows from a dynamic between rigor and freedom, intellect and intuition
personal and professional development begin in youth and last a lifetime
beauty plays a determining role in innovation and maintaining civil discourse
cross-cultural understanding plays a central role in contemporary homes, learning institutions, and workplaces
communication skills, in native or foreign languages, are best developed through the arts
people, frameworks, and plans must be open to change

The future is interdisciplinary, international, and interconnected.

What is the value of partnering with an arts-based company?

Artists are creative problem-solvers; intensely concerned with results; open to taking risks, playing with new ideas, juggling multiple perspectives; self-motivated performers with high standards. Bluepalm programs help to shift perceptions, increase motivation, and elevate expression; the capacities necessary to create art are applicable to the development of frameworks for continual renewal in individuals and groups.

Bluepalm guiding principles: Focus, Feel, Strive, Improvise, Compose, Share.

What is the common thread of our partnerships?

Whether lecturing on ‘Memory, Movement, & Learning’ in the Neuroscience Department of USC, exploring dance and theater as tools to create social fabric at the Centre Chorégraphique National de Rillieux-La-Pape, or designing a framework for bilingual communication at the Lycée International de Los Angeles, Bluepalm partnerships are committed to achieving targeted objectives, effecting positive change, and establishing frameworks for sustainable innovation.