Unrehearsed Future (S5) #5 Beyond the Black Box: The Social and Environmental Practices of the Lecoq Diaspora
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Unrehearsed Future (S5) #5 Beyond the Black Box: The Social and Environmental Practices of the Lecoq Diaspora

If you come across a group of people in a classroom shaking like a leaf or attempting to be a tree in a forest fire, or a whale on two legs – it might seem like an exorcism in process to your bewildered eyes. However, you are most likely to be witnessing a movement-based class…

Unrehearsed Future (S5) #4 Live Art: Transgressions and Transformations
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Unrehearsed Future (S5) #4 Live Art: Transgressions and Transformations

Live Art makes space for experimental processes, practices, bodies and identities that are perhaps excluded from conventional contexts. More than being a specific form or discipline, live art is a way of thinking about art, what it can do and how it can be experienced. It can be in a gallery, a theatre, a city…

Unrehearsed Future (S5) #3 Theatre in/as Health: Some case studies from India
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Unrehearsed Future (S5) #3 Theatre in/as Health: Some case studies from India

Artistic expression has long played a crucial role in how we learn, teach, communicate and heal. As per the World Health Organization, health is a “state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” The global body has also funded over 3000 studies investigating the role of…

Unrehearsed Future (S5) #1 Connection and Community for the Global Playback Theatre Movement
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Unrehearsed Future (S5) #1 Connection and Community for the Global Playback Theatre Movement

Kicking off the Season 5 of Unrehearsed Futures, we had guest curator Illia Abeliashev, an active member of the Vakhteri playback group from Ukraine in conversation with fellow Ukrainian playback artists Alisa Volkova and Olena Kalashnykova. Emphasising on theatre’s role in social transformation, this season we look at how we can transition from dialogue to…