What are your two workshops in India going to be about?
I am here to work with The Arshinagar Project, a collective of artists and cultural practitioners from different traditional and contemporary disciplines, and of course, to hold two residential workshops. I call my training approach Self-With-Others. It is a training of the self, in relationship to (with) the others in the ensemble. The workshop in Tamil Nadu in March (11 to 18) will focus on training as performers, mainly in physical improvisation work. That we are working with traditional performers at Kattaikkuttu Sangam (a social mission driven performing arts organisation based in Kanchipuram District, Tamil Nadu) will add another dimension, both to the training and to the improvisation work. The other workshop, Macbeth in the Mountains is an intensive workshop and will be held at Delhi and near Nainital (April 6 to 23). It will be based on Self-With-Others training. We will create a performance piece based on Macbeth. We will focus more on creating a performance, and less on pure training.

A beach rehearsal of the show Performing at the Edge in Lesbos, Greece in July 2012. Pic Ccourtesy/John Britton