Tim Etchells on performance
Notes and fragments from the artist and performance-maker
Tim Etchells on performance: in praise of LIFT
As its archive shows, the London international festival of theatre has been at the vanguard of performance for three decades
Tim Etchells on performance: how we made Void Story
Tim Etchells: A heady concoction of sounds, projected images and live performance, our unconventional production is – hopefully – oddly engrossing
Tim Etchells on performance: learning your lines
Tim Etchells: A collaborative drawing piece with Vlatka Horvat taught me to read the impromptu designs created by moving performers
Tim Etchells on performance: 99% perspiration, 1% inspiration
Dancing can be ludicrous, not to mention exhausting. Our new show tries to make it serious too
Tim Etchells on performance: Virtual events occur in spirit on a mystic river
Tim Etchells: My festival programme, which involved the mayor jumping in the Thames, mixed fantasy, reality and spectacle – like the media
Tim Etchells on performance: Improv storytelling's peculiar joy
There's nothing quite as fun and exhausting as an improvised story marathon that covers everything from murderous children to wizards in forests
Tim Etchells on performance: National Review of Live Art meets a bloody end
Tim Etchells: Thirty years of past performers came together for the final NRLA Glasgow, while a savagely gory Ron Athey sealed the festival's legendary status
Tim Etchells on performance: Dancing with other people's bodies
Whether they're following actions from a screen or listening to directions via an earpiece, performers who channel the personas of others make for brilliantly uncanny viewing
Tim Etchells on performance: Cambodia's beat goes on
Can Cambodia begin to rebuild its shattered cultural heritage? Tim Etchells wonders if the answer lies with a team of Khmer dancers ... and a specially modified laptop
Tim Etchells on performance: why a few heads are better than one
Watching a roomful of performers improvising in silly costumes sounds like a waste of time – but it's one of the best things about making theatre
Pretty vacant: the strange beauty of Empty Stages
An ongoing collaboration between theatremaker Tim Etchells and photographer Hugo Glendinning, Empty Stages attempts to capture the elusive magic of theatre spaces without either performers and audiences – from school halls to working men's clubs, world-famous theatres to rooms above pubs. Take a seat and enjoy the view ...
Tim Etchells on performance: the drama of an empty stage
Turning up unannounced at theatres to photograph their vacant auditoriums has made for a fascinating study of the stage
Tim Etchells on performance: scouting for sites
Be it a visit to the windswept English seaside or snowy Austrian mountains, breathing the air of a new location is essential for inspiring site-specific work, writes Tim Etchells
Tim Etchells on performance: The offstage drama that makes great theatre
Tim Etchells: Whether it's watching prompters or stagehands, sometimes you can't take your eyes off the jobs you're not meant to see
Tim Etchells on performance: A lifetime of movement in two days of dance
In the first instalment of his new Guardian diary, Forced Entertainment's Tim Etchells explains what it's like to remember life through the moves that you make
