Keywords
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Practice
The practice is where the public and private intersect, often on the backs of unpaid labour, a labour that sometimes involves love, at other times an obsessive repetition and treacherous deconstruction in the attempt to reach the impossible complete articulation.
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Critical
The critical impulse to be, create and survive through sharing is what makes a show. The stage happens when performers and audience show up. Cabaret happens before during and after the show, it resides in a specific type of creation and spectatorship
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Commons
We’re aiming to highlight/honour cultural materials and knowledges richly embedded in their sociocultural systems, primarily for the benefit (and whatever profit means when we’re not talking about money) of those who create, use, circulate and make them meaningful.
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Cabaret
The cabaret as we understand and practice it here at the Cabaret Commons is, loosely, a live show made up from a variety of short acts, often featuring different performers in each act, and composed of many different forms, thematics and styles of performance or presentation.