On 23 January 2026 at 21:30, the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (EAMT) hosts a public panel discussion titled “What Is Devised Performance and How Do You Eat It?” The event accompanies CPPM Triptych: Political Movement, created by students of the MA in Contemporary Physical Performance Making (CPPM), and takes place in the foyer of the academy. 

The panel brings together Sandra Küpper (German dramaturg and festival curator, Senior Lecturer in Dramaturgy at EAMT), Nicolette Kretz (director, dramaturg and writer based in Bern), and Alissa Šnaider (Estonian visual artist, choreographer, dramaturg and curator). The discussion is moderated by theatre critic and researcher Karin Allik.

Together, the speakers explore devising as both an artistic impulse and a working method, including what draws artists to it and what kinds of conditions help devised processes flourish. The conversation circles questions of collective authorship and responsibility, including the familiar tension of whether shared responsibility risks becoming no responsibility at all, and what it takes to stay accountable while keeping the work genuinely collective.

The discussion also touches the ethics and realities of collaboration, from rehearsal conditions, time, preparation, and the people you choose to work with, to how a space is shaped where every voice can be heard without losing a shared direction. Running through this are larger questions about politics and context: whether devised theatre is political in its essence, how freelancing and project based production models influence devising, what wider social impact this way of working can have, and whether devising has become mainstream or is still in the process of becoming.

Entry is free, but registration is required.