Radio Architecture With Ilana Razbash - Episode 58 (Deborah Leiser - Moore)

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This week on "Radio Architecture with Ilana Razbash", Ilana's special guest is Deborah Leiser-Moore - Performance Maker, Performer, Director, and Lecturer. Deborah was a core member of the physical performance company, Entr’acte Theatre (Sydney), and has trained in Japan with Tadashi Suzuki (and has taught the work for many years), in Rasaboxes with Richard Schechner, and in the Furan performance language as taught by ex La Fura dels Baus member, Younes Bachir (with whom she has collaborated many times). Deborah has created/written her own performance works as well as having worked within various companies. Her recent works include directing a contemporary version of Lorca’s Blood Wedding for the JMC graduating acting ensemble at St Martins Theater and co-created/directed This is Me This is Us with the JMC Performance Ensemble, presented at 2023 Melbourne Fringe. She performed in/co-created the promenade performance work, Day After Terrible Day, with Danger Ensemble, directed by Stephen Mitchel-Wright and presented at Theatre Works. She directed/co-created unHOWsed, in which eight older ex-homeless women shared their experiences of homelessness, for Theatre Works St Kilda’s main season. In September 2020 the filmed version played in competition at the 2020 Cairo International Festival of Experiment Theatre, in 2021 it was presented at Drum Theatre, Dandenong, in 2022 at ProAct Festival, Kyiv, Ukraine and in 2023 at the Alabama International Fringe Festival’s digital program.