Emergency Shelter

Emergency Shelter is Emergency Stairs’ artist training programme that aims to consolidate methodologies of training and creation.

The key elements of Emergency Shelter are:

1) Regular training 
2) Creative devisation 
3) Consolidating methods 
4) Creating ensemble works Offstage 

Started in 2017 with the formation of Emergency Stairs, the ensemble of actor-creators came together weekly over 40 weeks a year to train, consolidate methods of creation and create a new body of works under the Offstage series.

The programme aims to nurture a strong ensemble of actor-creators sensitive to the arts ecosystem in which they are part of, in order to create an original body of works with a focus on the creative process. 

Shelter members also participated in our annual cross-culture exchange programmes (One Table Many Chairs) in Yokohama, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tokyo, Jakarta, Bali and Yogyakarta between 2017 and 2019.