Tippi Hart - Founder/Artistic Director

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Tippi creates original physical theatre that invites audiences to experience a story rather than simply observe it. Her work embraces theatricality, non-realism, music, repetition, breath, gesture, and physical imagery. She is interested in the spaces between words: the pause before a response, the weight of a body, the distance between two people, the gesture we repeat without knowing why. For Tippi, movement is not decoration or accompaniment to the story. Movement is the story.Her artistic practice is informed by her research into emotional dramaturgy, the relationship between embodied experience, emotion, and theatrical structure. She is fascinated by the ways emotion lives physically in us and how those physical experiences can become material for performance. Her work asks audiences to trust their own embodied responses and to recognize the body as a source of knowledge.Tippi’s approach to creating theatre is deeply collaborative. She sees the rehearsal room as a place of discovery rather than simply a place to execute a predetermined vision. Through improvisation, physical exploration, composition, and conversation, she works alongside performers to uncover the language of each piece. The result is theatre that can feel intimate, visceral, playful, strange, beautiful, and deeply human.Her work as a director, choreographer, movement director, intimacy director, and fight director is united by a common belief: how we move through the world matters. The body carries our histories. It remembers what we have experienced. It adapts, protects, reaches, resists, grieves, celebrates, and continues.