Placing ecological thinking at the heart of creative practice

Welcome to Ecostage

Ecostage is an initiative founded by industry professionals to share practical and creative approaches to green up the performing arts sector. A catalyst for individual and collective transformation, it provides a framework, drawn from our Seven Ecostage Principles of ecological thinking, for sustainability, wellbeing and creativity.

A roadmap for everyone at all stages of their eco-journey, providing multiple routes for change-making, Ecostage offers talks, educational workshops and an education pack, along with abdunant free guides, case studies and resources available to all on the website.

Get in touch to discuss how we can work with you, your project, your group or your organisation.

If you are a practitioner, please consider joining the global Ecostage Community to share your knowledge and case studies, and celebrate the aesthetic range and diversity of sustainably produced work. All welcome!

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Power of Pledging

On the site there is an option to pledge to our Seven Ecostage Principles and help generate momentum for sector-wide transformation. View the pledge here:

Our Vision

  • To cultivate a holistic approach to making and sharing work that recognises the interconnectivity between creativity, ecology, sustainability, activism and well-being.
  • To provide a practical, accessible educational offer for practioners, students and the public.
  • To be responsive, engaging and relevant in our advocacy and activism, remaining alive to feedback, change and growth.

‘[Ecostage] reframes sustainable practice in the theatre to highlight what it is in the first place: a question of principles.’ – Sustainable Theatre, Iphigenia Taxopoulou, Methuen Drama 2023

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  • A Place at the Table - press photo

A Place At The Table

By |November 29, 2022|

The piece was conceived as an attempt to understand the eruption of violence in Burundi in 1993: a major factor in the lead up to the Rwandan genocide. A friend[...]

  • Sympoiesis: a bio inspired dance performance

Sympoiesis: a bio-inspired dance performance

By |September 14, 2022|

“Sympoiesis” is a bio-inspired dance performance. Coined originally by Beth Dempster, this term implied ‘multi-species making together.’ The performance emerges from the relationship between myself, a plant, a slime mould,[...]

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