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Theatre Off-Balance
From a recent workshop with Frantic Assembly, photo by Mark Peterson. Pictured (left to right): Fynta Sidime, Chih-Jou (RoRo) Cheng, Beth..
It’s European, It’s Devised, It’s Performance
I had the opportunity to chat with the current cohort of graduate students in the European Devised Performance Practice program (shortened to EDPP for obvious reasons) about their experiences. For context, the EDPP MFA program is two years in length. The first year takes place in Berlin, Germany studying at arthaus.berlin. Students then return to Chicago for their final year of study on Columbia’s campus. I asked some of the cohort a few questions about the program to give you all the inside scoop! Check it out below:
The Main Event
After hundreds of collective hours of rehearsing, writing, memorizing, moving, trashing drafts of our shows, rewriting, memorizing again, designing, and performing…we did it
See You Around!
Writing this last blog right now is the thing above everything else that’s making me emotional this week. Not striking my thesis show, not submitting my final Performance Research Archive, not planning where my cohort is going to lunch after graduation. It’s this blog.
Edinburgh! & Birth of The Whisper
One of the most common questions I get from applicants of the EDPP MFA is:
“What are alumni of your program doing today?”
To which I res..
Looooooooove, Looooove, Love
Back at the beginning…
Maintaining a love life is one of the most complicated things you can do in graduate school, especially when ..
Devising a Festival
For our EDPP thesis projects, each of us is responsible for submitting an inquiry that we will investigate through performance. We can c..
Farcing About
It’s our first week back at school for our FINAL SEMESTER (whaaaaaaaat!?), and I’ve just returned from Berlin!
Infiltrating the Holidays
My sweet, normal Chicago family.
While in grad school, it’s difficult not to let ensemble devised theatre and my thesis take over my ent..
Manifest(o)
New month, new show!