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Building conversations
I still don’t have any ambition to be on stage with anyone else as I always enjoyed my invisible role behind the scenes, but I do think I am
Lamenting the future
I started to give workshops and courses in which I guide people in writing their own laments and eventually also performing them. When worki
Performing mourning
This crisis also highlights once more the importance to mourn as a fundamental human right.
The pauses we need to become conscious
“The pauses in-between the asanas are equally important as the exercises themselves”, my original yoga teacher Eric Gomes would say, “becaus
Concrete utopia
Ernst Bloch proposed the concept of ‘concrete utopia’, which in my simplified understanding of it, is how you try to change reality ‘step by
A time to dream
At a time when much of the country was segregated under the Jim Crow laws, the Ku Klux Klan was rife and public lynchings were common, it se
Committed to change
I really miss seeing people in the flesh. Although I love the LMDA and have enjoyed the last two days of conferences, it is absolutely exhau
Dramaturgy as a way of thinking
It feels nice, comforting, to be connected to dramaturgs when the rehearsal rooms and theatres and theatre bars are closed. It’s good to see
Getting perspective
If you write about something happening in a contemporary setting, you can’t be vague any more. You can’t just say ‘now’, and then not have t
Dramaturgically out of place
Someone once told me that Putin has a dramaturg. Like a political dramaturg. A dramaturg of evil, if you will. Is Dominic Cummings Boris Joh