b'Phala Ookeditse PhalaBUSINESSES AND ARTS ORGANISATIONS IF OPEN-MINDED ABOUT WORKING TOGETHER AND NOT AFRAID TO TAKE RISKS TO COLLABORATE IN NEW WAYSCANCO-CREATE FAR MORE SUSTAINABLE, PURPOSE-LED PARTNERSHIP MODELS THE CENTRE FOR THE LESS GOOD IDEA is a space for artists across art disciplines to take risks, engage in meaningful play, and explore through experimentation and improvisation when creating work that can only take shape on the floor. Often, as artists begin to work the initial idea collapses then uncertainty and doubt come to the fore, the peripheral thoughts are given space and new ideas form, together with the initial idea, to give rise to the unexpected; that is the process of finding the less good idea. This has become the central philosophy of The Centre, where the collective making process embraces failure and chaos, an occurrence that is often rare in creative spaces.The duty of The Centre is to keep alive the light that illuminates the delicate process of creation, which is much like the work of separating cotton fibres from their seeds; bringing together ideas from their appearance in the mind, to realisation through form as it takes shape through making. Performance emanates from actioning ideas, and it is a multi-sensory and multi-disciplinary artwork rooted in The Centre for the Less Good Idea re-listening to the idea until it has reached a point of some eloquence. The Centres premise is to engage and/or challenge conventional ways of seeing the world.IDEATING FROM PROVOCATIONS Every year The Centre for the Less Good Idea brings together various artists in a season to create new work based on a provocation. Translation is the provocation of The Centres Season 9, which is curated by The Centres SO Academy Momenteur, Athena Mazarakis and Mandla Mbothwe of Mud and Fire Parables. The Season will perform between 26 and 30 October 2022.24'