Theatre has always been a site of risk and reinvention. This gathers conversations at the edge of practice — where performers, directors and makers push against convention, interrogate form, and ask what performance can be when the stage, the audience, and the rules are all up for renegotiation.
Nov 21, 2024
Dizu Plaatjies, Nhlanhla Mahlangu, and José Dias explore ancestral memory, embodied awareness, and the sacred secrets embedded in African musical and performance traditions.
Sep 19, 2024
Michael Pierce, Denise Kenney, and Ellie Nixon explore how Lecoq’s pedagogy can be adapted to address ecological crisis, decenter anthropocentrism, and evolve with local contexts.
Aug 29, 2024
Six South African live art practitioners explore how Live Art transgresses form, centers queerness and decoloniality, demanding a rethinking of curatorial power and artistic freedom.
Apr 25, 2024
Ukrainian playback theatre artists from Kharkiv share how they use playback theatre to build community, foster acceptance, and support displaced persons and refugees.
Aug 31, 2023
Ghanaian trans artivist Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi uses radical performance and guerrilla interventions to resist criminalisation, reclaim queer African identity, and sustain community through art.
Nov 10, 2022
Practitioners collectively imagine theatre as a “Foundation” — a grassroots psychohistory built on jazz-like improvisation, virtuosity, trust, and the transformative art of gathering together.
Sep 22, 2022
Heather Ward, Yuriria Fanjul, Natasha Nixon, Kjersti Webb, and Matilda Blomquist explore the ethics, power dynamics, and transformative possibilities of theatre-making with and within communities.
Aug 11, 2022
Nikki Yeboah and Sarah McCarron explore female protagonists in storytelling, examining how crisis lands differently on women’s bodies and navigating conservatism across theatre and television
Jun 30, 2022
Ukrainian artists Sandro Garibashvili, Maria Koreneva, Ivan Doan, and Konstantin Zorkin share visceral artistic responses to war — from sculptural installations and Butoh performance to
Jun 16, 2022
Nandita Dinesh discusses her novel This Place / That Place, exploring how her theatre activism evolved into a nuanced, grey-zone practice of understanding conflict, censorship,
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