Crossing the Line Why The Performance Workshop?

The largest communities who engage with the specific Performance Workshop (TPW) and Rasaboxes lineage are in the US and Brazil, which has become an important site for its development since Minnick taught the first Rasaboxes workshop in Rio de Janeiro in 2003. The process for becoming core facilitators of TPW has been both unconventional and highly traditional. Current core teachers learned this work the old-fashioned way—by apprenticeship. At the very heart of TPW is a deceptively simple idea—“crossing the line.” Whole worlds, relationships, and stories emerge from the simple action of crossing the line, walking across the space, and turning to face someone. The pedagogical methods of TPW enable teachers to invite and facilitate these crossings in ways that are at times everyday, at times extraordinary, sometimes scary, often fun.