Devised and Ensemble

In the following Around the Teapot series, three writers reflect on “Adventuring Together: Ensembles, Collectives, Laboratories & Networks,” a weekend-long gathering of performance artists and scholars, from across the U.S. and Europe, held in Los Angeles. 

Join us Thursday, Spetember 19 for our Weekly Howl.  This week's topic is Collective Creation in Theatre: Its History and Its Ramifications for Today.

Kristin Leahy offers an overview of the work Rachel Chavkin has been creating with the TEAM.

Vanessa Garcia shares an overview of working on a devised theatre piece.

The budding identity of American regional theater is fresh ensembles creating devised work that answers why with these people, in this place.

Ragged Wing Ensemble explores the concept of time with the centerpiece of an ice sculpture in Time Sensitive.

Rachel Grossman interviews the Neo-Futurists to explore the dynamic between art, artist, and audience.

Holler talks about ensemble building and how sometimes-for the integrity of the group-being kind is not always being polite.

In this essay, Rachel Grossman explores the junctions of ensemble theatre and audience.

Rachel Grossman of dog & pony dc writes about her experience as a female artistic director, and the problematic side effects of working in a post-feminist art form while still grappling with pre-feminist issues.

The Rude Mechs explain how their method of including their audiences – inviting them to join in on the creative process – helps to better engage their patrons... and their artists.

Lily Janiak takes a look at San Franisco-based Mugwumpin’s The Great Big Also as it explores the new frontier: what that meant to the first American settlers, and what the frontier means now.

The latest infographic from ABEF explores the value of theatre through food

Today's infographic from ABEF highlights who should determine the productions a company produces and how you can measure those production's success

In a continuation of A Big Eyed Fish, Rachel Grossman writes about ensemble theater and audience and what influences our perceptions of this relationship.

The first in a series of infographics highlighting the diversity in people, practices, and perceptions on Ensemble Theatre

Artist and engagement strategist Rachel Grossman writes about her work as co-founder and Ensemble Director of dog & pony dc and the evolution of their goals.

Randals writes about theatre created by women who have personal relationships with America’s criminal justice system who seek to inform their audiences to incarceration’s effects.