Odak Onyango / co-founder, artistic leader – Our artistic language is a cordial relationship and qualitative artistic process which results in production, workshops and sharing of different training methodologies. It is about how diverse ideas and values converge to tell a story. Our home base is in Utrecht and internationally. We have built quite a substantial intercultural language of guiding young makers, students in finding their way into this ‘creative artistic field’. We keep on learning and also get energy back seeing youngsters (re) discover and (re )structure themselves to the new dynamics that the arts industry confronts us with day to day.

Our working process is based on devised methodology, about everyday dreams of each and everyone of us, how we deal with our everyday problems, our solution(s), our challenges in creating a cohesive environment or call it conducive climate and the role each of us is playing. We use our art to question ourselves first before we question ourselves within the society at large. All genres of arts are on the table with an eventual dramaturgy and storyline as part of the creative process. We also use devised arts in filling the open gaps by engaging the local community not only to show our artistic process but also organizationally, making our art work(s) an open conversation and finding the aesthetic of working together with diverse people as well putting real human values and contact in the interaction and exchange.

I do believe Devised arts creates the space and the ambiance of an evolving community. Take for example Lombok in Utrecht West, an environment where we have open markets, a large student population and the melting pot of different cultures and people. Identities and characteristics of diverse people expose different talents that a theater maker can (re)search and may come up with different dynamics of movement, language(s) and cultures. In other words, no individual behavior is uninfluenced by interaction?