Animikii Theatre is a company that desires to dream and make with risk and expression. We create bold productions where the magic and power of theatre is viewed as essential. The source of our passion comes from a fidelity to theatre as a unique art-form and one that must be protected; its aliveness, its immediacy, the intimacy of its action through body, text, and song. We believe theatre making is a collaborative and experimental process - playing and discovering, waiting

and listening for what each story needs. Trial and error, the push and pull of theatre making and not knowing which path to take are accepted at Animikii as creative hurdles toward rich collective story-telling. This takes patience, trust, a conviction for simplicity, and a sensitivity for detail, insisting on time to consider and reconsider, side-stepping stylistic persuasions and trends. This is long form theatre making.

At Animikii we dedicate extensive time to continually evolve our technical & making theatre practices through our open public workshops, courses and annual intensives across the UK and at our workcentre at the Northern Theatre Laboratory in Manchester. The enduring principle of our creative process will always be a practice that illuminates and interrogates the intricacies of the human to human, body to body experience of the here and now. We believe that this approach cuts to the

heart of what it means to be alive today, and we willingly accept the cost of time and energy it takes to reshape and redefine our training in this way. This form of embodied training underpins the form of story-telling we seek to make; one that is universally recognisable and arrives unimpeded to those who wish to experience them. Our vision is to offer all that comes from fearlessly being on the edge: new dreams and unknown worlds. This is laboratory theatre making.

At Animikii Theatre we offer a truly collaborative laboratory environment in both our public training and private company spaces. Every one of our team, collaborators and visitors are offered a safe space that embraces the willingness to test, play, and unlock the unknown. Our lab is a place where artists have permission to be patient and stay in the ‘not knowing’ long enough for pathways to appear. We acknowledge that no two artists work in the same way and that the modern theatre

environment can be like a ‘pressure cooker’ where calmness and composure are easily replaced with tricks and quick fixes. We vow to protect every artist from this, allowing them to experiment, fail, and take enough time and space for their ideas to emerge. Trusting oneself and the work can be a difficult task for many artists but this is something we strive to champion. This is compassionate theatre making.