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Audiencing the De-Peopled Spaces of Puppetry
At one time ‘gathering’ meant violence. Puppeteers were chased off as vagrants and their carts burned. The raucous gatherings of...
Caroline Astell-Burt
Interview with Stephen Bailey, Artistic Lead at Vital Xposure
Taking over a company is a strange and unfamiliar experience for me. It’s important to clarify my role and responsibilities: I am the...
Grace Joseph


How Do You Spell AI? A Somatically Captioned Photo Essay
It was a fresh and surprisingly sunny afternoon on a buzzing Bristol harbourside. I stood facing the water, which thrummed with what...
Harshadha Balasubramanian


The Cheltenham Festival of Performing Arts: Community Arts Events, Inclusivity, and Social Change
Cheltenham is a festival town, with strong cultural and creative sectors. The literature, science, music, and jazz festivals are all well...
Fiona Crouch


Assemblies of Solidarity in Simultaneous Acts
In June 2012, Sr Solano, an elder campesino in the community of Cocorote, Lara State, Venezuela, told me that my father’s remains might...
Livia Daza-Paris
Imposter 22: A Response
As Imposter 22Â begins, we are assured this is a relaxed performance. As an audience, we are free to move, make noise, and do whatever...
Zoë Glen
One Song: A Response
A metronome. A megaphone. A balance beam. A double bass. Orderly rows of water bottles and stacks of numbered towels arranged on a long...
Georgie Hook


I am the guest. You are the host. Dance is the ghost.
A dancer dressed in black track pants and a beige long-sleeved shirt lies on her back on a white linoleum floor. She moves in short...
Nina Kunzendorf


Integrate: A Response
Mid-autumn nights in Shanghai are enchanting, with the translucent round roof of the West Bund Dome Art Centre on the west side of the...
Xueting Luo


Pleats under My Skirt
An encounter with Ganga Maharjan, a farmer from Lalitpur, Nepal, afforded me a space to imagine a stage: a stage where I invited the...
Keepa Maskey
From Invisible to PresenceIng
In my early 20s, two significant things happened to me: the first was losing the majority of my sight, and the next was gaining success...
Maria Oshodi
Solidarity is a Song: Musical Gatherings of Sheikh Jarrah
In April 2021, a video went viral on social media, depicting a young Palestinian woman named Muna El-Kurd in the yard of her home in the...
Ruba Totah
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