ABSTRACT
Like ± and unlike ± All Stars' Pam Lewis who tells inner-city youth that if they can perform on stage they can perform in life, Cathy Rose Salit invites ``high-performing'' corporate executives, middle managers, ®nancial analysts and Olympic athletes to get on stage and perform. Salit, an accomplished singer, actor and improvisational comic, is conveying a similar message as Lewis, adapted from Newman's and my understanding/practice of performance as the tool-and-result activity of human development. She leads workshops for multinational corporations and organizations, working with successful business professionals, not inner-city poor and ethnic minority children and youth. Salit was at those weekend social therapy retreats where Newman experimented with performance that I described in Chapter 2. She and Newman have been friends and political colleagues for many years and after the retreats he asked her to work with him to create a new project, which they dubbed Performance of a Lifetime, Interactive Growth Theatre. The idea was to create a stage for nonactors to perform improvisationally and experience its therapeutic effects. Those people who signed up would get together once weekly for four weeks, create an improvisation play and perform it in front of a paying audience.
