From the stage’s set to the setting of everyday life, theater and life have a reciprocal relationship - so do theater and death. This is true of the circus and of play more broadly.

How can we engage musical theater, theater, and the circus to cultivate conditions of possibility in our everyday lives?

How are these types of cultural work entwined?

Play as a way of connecting/disconnecting

Play as undisciplining and not re-creation

Play as not performance or compulsory existence, competence, economies, choreographies

Play as unsettling (generative discomfort, horror, rotpunk)

Play as a way of cultivating conditions of possibility for something different

Play as cultural strategy both movement and capitalist/colonial/carceral

Play as chaos magic

Play as subtle magic

Play as cultural work

Cultivating conditions of possibility, space, and time, for friction, messing up, stumbling, uncertainty, feelings - change & transformation - and stability within that. It is a skill to be able to make these changes and it is possible to hold uncertainty and yourself and each other in that. We have learned to not do that.

How I came to play as cultural work from discipline, from compulsory existence, what I noticed during the process

how to make this noticeable and understand the work involved