PSYCHOPHYSICAL ANTI-RACISM STUDY GROUP
We believe the tools of Chekhov’s technique, built upon openness and artistic freedom, can support the process of manifesting a just world. In 2020 and 2021, MICHA facilitated a monthly study group to support the creation of antiracist and inclusive spaces
Although the topic of each session differed from session to session our guiding questions remain:
- Why is racial justice important to me?
- What are my racial justice values?
- What is my racial justice vision?
- What role does education and accountability play in my racial justice vision?
- What needs to change?
- What commitments am I ready to make?
- How can things move?
Members of the study group were invited to examine Michael Chekhov’s technique and their classrooms and rehearsal rooms directly. They were asked to consider the ways the Chekhov work has caught them up or left them grappling. What can this work do? Where are its limits? What are the blind spots with regard to racism/inclusion?
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