CT&Co is a devised performance company of international performers with a great variety of disciplines.
We create immersive performances in theatres and on location. Spherical worlds in which everything is possible. Timeless stories that ignore the differences that the modern world imposes on us. About growth and transience, holding on and letting go, perception and goosebumps.
"Cézanne Tegelberg makes the invisible visible" - The Hague Central
We create immersive performances in theatres and on location. Spherical worlds in which everything is possible. Timeless stories that ignore the differences that the modern world imposes on us. About growth and transience, holding on and letting go, perception and goosebumps.
"Cézanne Tegelberg makes the invisible visible" - The Hague Central
Our Working Method: Devising
Devising is a method that involves creating work from scratch in the rehearsal space, rather than starting with an existing script, choreography or score.
“The process begins with little more than a rehearsal space and a group of committed theatre practitioners. Through conceptual exercises, they start to tease out the stories they’d like to tell and the way they’d like to tell them. Over time, a performance emerges, covered with the fingerprints of each and every participant. From actors to technicians, everyone is involved in the creative process.”
Artistic director Cézanne trained as a deviser at East15 Acting School, London until 2008, where she worked with tutors from companies such as Theatre Complicité, Blind Summit, Song of the Goat. She has since then developed her own style as a director of cross-disciplinary devised performance, whereby she combines devising with ensemble work and impulse, object theatre and puppetry, immersive performance and ritual.
“The process begins with little more than a rehearsal space and a group of committed theatre practitioners. Through conceptual exercises, they start to tease out the stories they’d like to tell and the way they’d like to tell them. Over time, a performance emerges, covered with the fingerprints of each and every participant. From actors to technicians, everyone is involved in the creative process.”
Artistic director Cézanne trained as a deviser at East15 Acting School, London until 2008, where she worked with tutors from companies such as Theatre Complicité, Blind Summit, Song of the Goat. She has since then developed her own style as a director of cross-disciplinary devised performance, whereby she combines devising with ensemble work and impulse, object theatre and puppetry, immersive performance and ritual.
“In theatre, the little ‘finds’ we accidentally stumble upon are worth their weight in gold. The devising process is designed specifically to create space for such finds, and then build upon them. Each project and training process reminds me again of the incredible value of devised performance, because it brings forth so much creativity, ownership and magic. For me, the difference between devising and a traditional process can be compared to a collaborative piece of art on a massive wall versus a colouring book.
Having no idea at the start of what the picture will look like requires a great deal of trust from all those involved, but that’s precisely what makes the end result so exciting, so inventive and magical.”
Having no idea at the start of what the picture will look like requires a great deal of trust from all those involved, but that’s precisely what makes the end result so exciting, so inventive and magical.”
- Cézanne Tegelberg
Community creation
CT&Co create together.
We perform together.
We train together.
We build our sets together.
We market our shows together.
Each company member has a different skills set and besides performing, we also use those skills to contribute to the Company as a whole. We do try to do the things we actually enjoy and are good at.
This means we have a percussionist/puppeteer/production manager as well as a performer/marketeer, for example. We create the roles based on the people, as in devising, and not the other way around.
We perform together.
We train together.
We build our sets together.
We market our shows together.
Each company member has a different skills set and besides performing, we also use those skills to contribute to the Company as a whole. We do try to do the things we actually enjoy and are good at.
This means we have a percussionist/puppeteer/production manager as well as a performer/marketeer, for example. We create the roles based on the people, as in devising, and not the other way around.
