Theatre for social transformation, Dramatool.org, 22 October 2007
Performing The World 4
More than 250 practitioners and scholars participated in Performing The World 4 (PTW4) just outside New York, between October 12-14, in roundtable debates and workshops that looked at and rehearsed social transformation. The conference met IDEA President Dan Baron Cohen who presented IDEA's key aims and projects, and was completely seduced by 25 military police from north-east Brazil whose dance theatre workshops and performances aim at building inclusion, citizenship and social transformation.  Read More

A Performance to Become Who We Are Not, Spirituality and Health, Betsy Robinson

"What if you aren’t good at relationships, a "group person," a joiner, a team player? What if group activity connotes strain or anxiety that you’d rather avoid? Maybe you have even convinced yourself that you could realize God by sitting alone on a mountaintop, meditating. And it was a rude awakening to find that it is the friction of relationship that leads to God. So now you’re really stuck, unable to believe in the path of isolation and clueless about how to cope in life’s communities. Where do you go for help?..." Read more

African activists take the stage at New York performance summit, Kitche Magak

Health care activists, educators and therapists working in South Africa, Malawi, Senegal and Kenya came together last week for the third biennial performance summit, Performing the World 3, sponsored by the East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy, an international research and training center for new approaches to human development..." Read More