Window into The Tempest
Window into the Tempest is the engagement project that supported our touring production We Caliban. We partnered with select venues, HE institutions, and local dance organisations to deliver tailored, high-quality participation opportunities for students, early career artists, intergenerational groups and communities to connect to, and gain insight into the creation of We Caliban.
These were facilitated by company artists and reflect Shobana Jeyasingh’s distinctive, task-based choreographic approach, cross-disciplinary exploration, and societal inquiry. The programme offered three flexible formats:
Tempest Rising – 4-day co-creation project resulting in a 7 min curtain raiser performance with original score by We Caliban composer Thierry Pécou
Tempest Intensive – a one-day creative program exploring key concepts and approaches of We Caliban
Tempest Taster – up to 3 hours taster of the creative approaches of We Caliban
Each project was co-designed specifically with each venue and region to creatively engage up to 20 participants in the artistic processes behind the production.
Window into The Tempest Resource Guide
This resource guide accompanies WIT’s workshops, curtain raisers and masterclasses. It is intended as both a window and a toolkit: offering insight into the making of We Caliban while equipping participants with creative, compositional and collaborative tools they can apply within their own practice.
This guide aims to:
• situate We Caliban within its artistic, historical and political context
• share Shobana Jeyasingh’s choreographic approach and hallmarks
• share the perspectives of the collaborators whose disciplines cohere with one
another in the creation of the work
• provide detailed creative tasks that develop skills in making, composing and
collaborating
Who this guide is for:
• university dance and theatre students
• recent graduates
• early-career artists
• anyone interested in choreographic process, interdisciplinary
collaboration and contemporary performance-making
SJD – Window Into The Tempest – RESOURCE GUIDE
Photo: Foteini Christofilopoulou