Friday, 10 June 2016

Performance is...

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Performance is powerful.
Performance is engaged in current issues.
Performance is thought-provoking.
Performance is brave.
Performance is about us and our place in the world.



A few weeks ago, I wrote a post titled Theatre is not..., in which I discussed a poetry-slam project that some of my students were working on. Those poems have now been slammed and the results are awesome. Here are some of the poems that came out of it-













This is brave, passionate, thought-provoking Performance at its best.

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