Our theatre company has been devising work together for three years and we've developed this beautiful collaborative process, but now we're being offered opportunities that require one of us to be 'the director' and we're all afraid that hierarchy will destroy the creative democracy we've built. None of us wants to step into that role but we also don't want to turn down the opportunities.
More people experience this than they realize.
A democratically-minded group is confronting the tension between their internal values and external industry expectations that demand traditional power structures.
“Where Are You with Indigenous creative traditions?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.