About Us
Performing Dialogue is the trading name of Dialogue Community Performance, a Non-Profit Limited by Guarantee Company registered in England & Wales with company number 10676296 (Registered office address: 34 North Street, Bridgwater, Somerset, United Kingdom, TA6 3YD). Performing Dialogue is a a non-profit social enterprise. We aim to support and build the capacity of organisations and individuals worldwide who use Community Performance in their work.
Featured Posts
Ernie Nolan: A Sense of Place
Ernie Nolan, the facilitator of the A Sense of Place playwriting workshop, hands the participants a map of Cape Town and tells them to go out...
Exploring Techniques and Practices from the IDIERI 9 Workshops (Part 4)
Delegates at the 9th International Drama in Education Research Institute were treated to an abundance of exciting and engaging practical workshops during the 7-day event. To...
Deanna Borland-Sentinella: Navigating the Distance to Desired Futures
Arundhati Roy says “another world is not only possible … on quiet days I can hear her breathing” … but is a distant echo...
Kelly Freebody: Distance through critique: Moving beyond the ‘common-sense’ of drama for social change
This paper urges us to use a critical lens to distance ourselves from common-sense understandings of what we do and why. It unpacks key...
Dancers of the Cradle
In its second week, the Cradle of Creativity hosted two Focus Days on Dance Theatre for Young People (Wednesday, May 24th and Thursday, May 25th, 2017).
The...
Lucy Lott: Social support for young people transitioning from care to independence: revealing the...
This presentation will explore how a participatory drama process might provide insights about how young people transition from care to independence in Queensland, Australia....
A Grand Day of Stories and Sharing
Facilitated by Drama For Life (DFL) from the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, the Storytelling Focus Day burst into action at City Hall today as DFL...
Chatting with Asanda Rilityana and Emmanuel Ntsamba
AR: My name is Asanda Rilityana and I was one of the first to graduate. I graduated in 2011. Or 10? Between those years....
Hilsen fra Kristiansand!
The Dialogue team have arrived in Kristiansand, Norway! We will be joining the hundreds of delegates attending the ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering 2019,...
Panali Panali
Panali Panali, presented by Zambia-based Dinaledi Expressions, combines both storytelling and theatre.
“Panali panali” is a Nyanja phrase, roughly equivalent in English to “once upon...
Dialogue at IDIERI 9: Tyranny of Distance
Dialogue – The Community Performance Network is a non-profit knowledge sharing network specialising in supporting practitioners to generate and use evidence in order to...



















