What Is Devised Theatre? article in The Theatre Times
Devised Theatre - TDF Dictionary
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RECOMMENDED COLLABORATIVE COMPANY LIST
Complicite
Dell 'Arte International
Double Edge Theatre Company
DV8
Elevator Repair Service
Forced Entertainment
Ex Machina
Frantic Assembly
Gecko Theater Company
Pig Iron Company
Radio Hole
RashDash
Rude Mechanical
SpyMonkey
Tectonic
The Paper Birds Theater Company
Truthworker
Wooster Group
MS. G. RECOMMENDS THESE COMPANIES
Assembly Theater Project - Brooklyn "Embracing collaboration as the core of the creative process, the company chooses projects through consensus and develops text, action and design side-by-side within the rehearsal environment." Emphasis on community.
Complicite - England "The Company is famous for making its work through extensive periods of research and development which brings together performers, designers, writers, artists and specialists from diverse fields to create the works – a process now known simply as ‘devising’ "
Double Edge - Massachusetts Rigorous physical work. Emphasis on training as basis for developing performances.
Elevator Repair Service - Ms. G. may be able to get you in touch
Exmachina - Robert Lepage's group
Frantic Assembly- London
Big Art Group - New York City
Big Dance Theater - New York City
Bond Street - based out of NYC, but do work internationally. "To address the most pressing global issues, Bond Street Theatre creates projects worldwide, in conflict and post-conflict zones, refugee areas, and with specific groups, such as women and girls or youth."
The Civilians NYC, NY is a company that creates new theater from creative investigations into the most vital questions of the present.Through a number of artistic programs, The Civilians advances theater as an engine of artistic innovation and strengthens the connections between theater and society.
Dell'Arte International - California. They have well-established training and offer an MFA.
Pig IronTheatre Company - Philadelphia
Rash Dash - (London) socio-political; feminist; create with both cerebral & sensual in mind
Rude Mechanicals (Laurel, MD) Wildly inventive and original, they re-infuse classical works with edge, intellect and a message that resonates brilliantly with the modern age.That message comes from a deep and profound love of classic works, and a belief that reexamining and questioning the assumptions keeps art and theater alive. The Rude Mechanicals are rebels. They reject the mold because they have the freedom to make more interesting, less commercial choices.
SITI Company - Anne Bogart's company.
The Wooster Group - NYC- based group
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OTHER DEVISED COLLABORATIVE COMPANIES THAT YOU MIGHT ENJOY EXPLORING
B-Floor (Bangkok, Thailand) - link goes to a Youtube video. Their website was down when I added them to this page, but you can do a search for them and find articles and clips of their work.
Forced Entertainment (Sheffield, UK) Six collaborators who have been working for 30 years and work with a vast variety of ways of creating.
Forkbeard - England
The Ghost Road Company (Los Angeles, CA)
Nature Theater of Oklahoma - NYC
With each new project, we attempt to set an impossible challenge for ourselves, the audience, and our collaborators -- working from inside the codes and confines of established genres and exploding them. No two projects are formally the same, but the work is always full of humor, earnestness, rigor, and the audience plays an essential role -- whether as spectators or - just as often - as participants in the work.
Neo-Futurists Chicago, IL "Theater that is a fusion of sport, poetry and living-newspaper." Good Article about their work.
Not Man Apart - Los Angeles - Physical Theater - Brings Dance, Theater & Spoken Word together
Push Theatre Rochester, NY - Physical, Collaborative - Have good process info.
The Paper Birds - verbatim theater, English company
Pintsize Theatre Company - Devising to explore local issues
PopUP Theatrics (NY, NY) creates site-specific/ site impacting theatrical events in dynamic collaborations with theatre artists world-wide.
Radio Hole (NY, NY)
Spiderwoman Theater (NYC, NY) Feminist, Native American Spiderwoman Theater’s work bridges the traditional cultural art forms of storytelling, dance, and music and the practice of contemporary Western theater. Born in Brooklyn, their work springs from their own lives and experiences as “city Indians”. As the grandmothers of the Indigenous theater movement in the United States and Canada, they are mentors to the upcoming generation of Indigenous performers, writers, and educators. In addition to presenting their own work, they are collaborating with and incorporating the work of these artists into the company.
Subversive Theatre Company now in the fifteenth year of our kamikaze mission to bring you the most provocative, the most defiant, the most empowering, and the most urgently necessary plays under the sun...come be a part of the revolution, we look forward to subverting YOU!
Teatro Linea de Sombra (Mexico)
Teatro Luna - Teatro Luna West & Teatro Luna Chicago
The Team (Brooklyn, NY) "The Guardian once described us as “theatrical excavators of American culture, American dreams and the American psyche.” Combining aggressive athleticism with emotional performances, our work crashes characters from American history and mythology into modern stories, drawing unexpected and sometimes uncomfortable connections across time to touch the raw nerves of the current moment."
Theatre de l'Ange Fou - Mime is the base of their work
Theatre Grottesco - Santa Fe, New Mexico - LeCoq- based; buffoon, mask, commedia
Trestle - Masks & Collaboration
Waterwell (NY, NY) strives to create new theater that entertains and enlightens. The company seeks to prove itself a vital presence in the lives of its audience by remaining always responsive: responsive to the events affecting the world at large, responsive to changing modes of expression and responsive to the individuals attending the performance. Waterwell endeavors to cultivate the inherent danger in live performance to create an exciting and unpredictable event — an event pruned down to its irreducible elements: human beings sharing a space and a story. Through that story…through the humor, sadness and hope it evokes…Waterwell hopes to empower its audience to change their lives and the world in which they live.
Who’s Louis (Salt Lake City, UT) mission is to represent humanity and its many facets by revitalizing new art through the lens of young artists. [They] seek to create dynamic, engaging, and inclusive theatre through alternative writing techniques
Woodshed Collective - NYC - Immersive theater
Tricklock (Albuquerque, New Mexico) The ensemble often studies the harsher side of humanity in their work, using a variety of styles such as physical story creation, object and shadow puppetry, poetic language, song, and humor to tell these stories. Tricklock has a strong connection to its Albuquerque community, hosting open work demonstrations through its Excavations series, seeking community input in the work.
Among the companies I have added are:
1927 (UK), http://www.19-27.co.uk/
Ashtar Theatre (Ramallah), http://www.ashtar-theatre.org/about.html
Au Ments Dansa Teatre (Spain), http://www.auments.com/
Clockwork Theatre Co. (Australia), http://www.clockfiretheatre.com/
Compagnia TPO (Italy), http://www.tpo.it/
Dreamthinkspeak (UK), http://www.dreamthinkspeak.com/
Elevator Repair Service (USA), http://www.elevator.org/
Geese Theatre (UK), http://www.geese.co.uk/
and https://vimeo.com/65966454
Ghost Road Company (USA), http://ghostroad.org/
Heart of the Beast (USA), http://hobt.org
and http://www.sagecraft.com/puppe...apers/HeartBeast.html
Idle Motion (UK), http://idlemotion.co.uk
Kamchàtka Theatre Collective (Catalan), http://kamchatka.cat/
and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KIJ7wYG23Y
and http://www.circostrada.org/sit...tion-4-en-2_final.pdf
Legs on the Wall (Australia), http://www.legsonthewall.com.au/
Les 7 Doigts de la Main (Quebec), http://7doigts.com/en
Mabou Mines (USA), http://www.maboumines.org/company/history/
Out of Balanz (DK), http://www.outofbalanz.com/
Rimini Protokoll (Germany), http://www.rimini-protokoll.de/website/en/
Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio (Italy), http://www.raffaellosanzio.org (in Italian)
Split Britches, https://splitbritches.wordpress.com/about/splitbritches/
The Original Tempo (Japan), https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/06/20/stage/for-a-nonverbal-theater-group-the-original-tempo-has-a-lot-to-say/#.WZnUcHcjGRs
and
http://www.originaltempo.com/index.html (mostly in Japanese)
Tectonic Theatre Project (USA), http://tectonictheaterproject.org
and
https://www.tcg.org/publications/at/2000/form.cfm
Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre (Australia), http://zenzenzo.com/