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
Alison O’Grady: Human Rights and Critical Consciousness For Personal Practice
Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?... If you prick us, do we not bleed? The Merchant of Venice – Shakespeare...
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...
African Dance Workshop
The African Dance Workshop was led by Letlhogonolo Nche, a South African Northern Cape Dancer. It explored traditional rhythms and gave participants an exciting and energetic...
Perceptions of Home in Vrygrond
“Safety and security don’t just happen, they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens...
Roundtable on Drama Education, Climate, and the Environment
A roundtable on an environmental theme at IDIERI 2018, convened by Molly Mullen.
https://youtu.be/GJqq1lb2j_w
Molly Mullen is a Senior Lecturer in applied theatre at the University...
Jump First, Ask Later – A Reflection
Innovative. Inspiring. Groundbreaking.
While watching a screening of Jump First, Ask Later on Wednesday night, I was captured by the creative use of real-life stories from...
Wasim Kurdi: Yearnings of Immigration and Its Agony
Identity formulation through experiencing: “distances by traveling” and “distances by departing”
In 1851, the first Palestinian man arrived in Brazil as an asylum seeker following a harsh...
Beviol Swartz and Rozanne Holland Discuss Their Training at Magnet Theatre
BS: My name is Beviol Swartz and I graduated twice, actually. I was in the group 2014-2015, and then I graduated that year,...
Baba Yaga – A Visual Delight
As the lights are dimmed, the audience is met with a shiny lobby area adorned in silver. Vaselina (the receptionist, played...
Mother Africa – A Soundscape
Mother Africa & Her Melodies (dir. Lulu Tsheola) is a one-hander play told by multi-instrumentalist and well-traveled musician and instrument collector...
Opening up a Creative Case for Diversity and Interculturality
A theme that has surfaced repeatedly over the past two days is intercultural exchange and diversity. The Cradle of Creativity is, in itself, a tremendous...
