• improvisation

  • embodiment

  • Form

  • PACE + PRESENCE

    [feeling]

  • PAIN + POWER

    [naming]

  • PRESERVE + PRACTICE

    [changing]

“Welcome to: emergentheatre (for a changing world)”

  • “Emergentheatre is for the people. ET is a process and does not concern itself with product or end result or deadlines. ET has all the time it needs. ET is not for sale. If ET wants an audience, it will invite one. ET is practiced by anyone and everyone. ET is uplifted and shaped by young people and old people. ET has no leader—it generates then shares power generously and joyfully. ET derives power from all human feeling, even the hard ones. ET breathes in the mud. ET is outside and sometimes inside. ET is both transformative and restorative. ET is communal. ET is loving. ET is sustainable. ET has four rooting tendrils: human relationship to the earth, human relationship to humans, human relationship to systems and change by way of emergent strategy, and lastly, maybe the use of human bodies to iterate aesthetic possibility. ET might be when we intentionally cultivate relationships as we shape systems through aesthetic possibility creation as practice. ET changes theatre by changing the system. ET births new ideas, new aesthetic, new methodology, new form. Emergentheatre is now and always will be.”

    to be published in SETC’s Theatre Symposium in October 2022.

UPDATES

COMING UP

  • Jan. 2023: Princess Grace Award nomination from Savannah Repertory Theatre; Justice will be honored at Sav Rep’s annual Gala, ‘Our Season to Bloom’

  • Jan. 27-28, 2023: Social Presencing Theatre (SPT), Justice will offer an Emergentheatre analysis of SPT during a two-day virtual gathering: “Curiosity, Compassion, and Courage: An Exploration of BIPOC Experience in the US through SPT” [register here! free + BIPOC only]

  • March 11-15, 2023: Atlanta Shambhala Center, Radical Conversations, assistant facilitator to Arawana Hayashi

  • Spring 2023: “Welcome to: Emergentheatre (For a Changing World)” published in SETC’s Theatre Symposium journal, volume 30, ‘Theatre and Politics’

  • Spring 2023: Writing in process! Second peer-reviewed article, working title “Organizing Emergentheatre: The Theatricality of Culture”

PAST

  • Sept. 2022: Theatre Crude Fringe Festival - self-produced performance, “Emergentheatre: Youth JAM SESH” [tickets here]

  • Aug. 2022: Alternate ROOTS, ROOTS Week - virtual presentation + conversation, “Emergentheatre for Black Feminist Nourishment”

  • July 2022: Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Conference - panel participant, “Thinking Big: Emergentheatre for Systems Change” [audio recording]

  • July 2022: Allied Media Conference, 5 Years of Emergent Strategy track - hands on session “Theorizing Emergentheatre: A Visionary Act”

  • Nov. 2021: Alternate ROOTS Blog - “Dreaming Together: Emergentheatre (for a better world)” by Helms Jerrell. [article + interview]

Justice facilitates a relationship building session at The Island School in Citago (now known as Eleuthera), the Bahamas.

Photo credit: James Lattanzio

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