Writings

Making Sense

May 26th, 2021 by

We’re taught in school that there are five main senses: sight, sound, taste, smell and touch. So why the belief that only the first two count in theatre? Sascha Goslin argues that there are far more sensory possibilities to explore in the live experience Traditionally, when we think of theatre and performance, we think of […]

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Walking In and Out of a Pandemic

May 18th, 2021 by

Creative walking is a growing movement – and now there’s a call for practitioners who use walking in their work to contribute to an Artist’s Survey. Dee Heddon, of the Walking Artists Network and the Walking Library Project, tells us more   I have been interested in ‘creative walking’ for more than a decade. In […]

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Recipe for an Experiment in Co-Creation

April 21st, 2021 by

Performer, director, producer, enabler: Anne Langford explores artist development for community theatre-makers of co-created work  We’ve all had a bit more time to think over the past year. Or maybe you haven’t? Maybe you work in the part of theatre and performance that never stopped. The deep, creative and ongoing work with young people and […]

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ParaladosanjoS: The River That Creates Landscapes

April 12th, 2021 by

A flow-form of physical and visual theatre, circus, and site-responsive performance weaves its way through the diverse landscapes of Brazil, as told by Marilia Ennes, co-founder and co-director of ParaladosanjoS Let’s follow the journey of ParaladosanjoS – a performing arts group I created in partnership with actor and director Marcos Becker, in 2001, in the […]

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Risk Assessment

April 9th, 2021 by

What happens when crisis takes centre-stage? Lila Robirosa reflects on the challenges of making autobiographical work based on your own trauma The past year for me has been one distinctly lacking in crisis. (Now there’s a first line to an article you didn’t expect to read in 2021, a year on from the first UK […]

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