Are you doing paratheatre as defined by Grotowski?
No. The work we do as ParaTheatrical ReSearch is Grotowski-inspired, not Grotowski-informed or defined. The term “paratheatre”, like the term “theatre”, demands periodic updating and redefining to serve the developing contexts of its practice and its practioners. The paratheatre medium I have been developing with others (since 1977) posits an asocial approach to group ritual dynamics that implements techniques of physical theatre, dance, song,and Zazen to access and express the internal landscape. Though inspired by Grotowski’s vision of paratheatre, this medium makes no pretense of following or replicating Grotowski’s example. One important difference that sets this work apart from Grotowski’s might be the consistent practice of a standing and walking meditation we call “no-form”, that allows for the development of the very forms and the content of our work. Though external forms, such as songs and text, are occasionally used they play secondary roles to the slower evolution of organi
