Third Space Performance Lab was started in Los Angeles in 2017 by Marc Gomes and Shanti Pillai as a platform for exploring collaborative, multi-disciplinary performance. We believe in the overwhelming importance of humor and beauty. We provoke questions of gender, race, and hybridity by juxtaposing unexpected points of cultural reference. We blur the boundaries between performance and audience and we play with the distinctions between actor and character. Our bodies are the central focus of what we do and speak in multiple theatrical languages as we draw from Brecht, Grotowski, hatha yoga, classical Indian dance, and Stanislavski. We interweave our art making practice with teaching and research about contemporary cultural politics and theatrical form. Embodying theoretical discourse is an integral part of our process. We are informed by scholarship and in turn, our performances seek both to delight and to inspire reflection.
