The Experience

Across millennia and cultural traditions, theatre has offered a safe space for people from different walks of life to come together for a shared experience – an experience that challenges us to look at the world through different eyes, that inspires us to act, and that provokes important conversations. This is the kind of experience The Performance Theatre seeks to offer leaders.

We meet in a different place every year, drawing inspiration and learning from the communities where we are. Local hosts give the Theatre a firm grounding in our host country’s context, culture and community. Our programmes bring our participants out into neighbourhoods, and invite our neighbours in to participate alongside us. We aim for lifelong natives to learn something new about the places they are from. In our globalising world, we believe local connection has never been more important.

We incorporate arts-inspired interaction models to help us approach leadership challenges in new ways. We keep passive listening to a minimum, and design sessions to emphasise learning, discovery and practice connected to our theme. The Theatre features workshops and learning experiences led by artists and performers. We also integrate world-class artistic interventions to inspire and connect our participants.

Most importantly, we strive to create a human experience. Invitees are encouraged to bring a partner or guest participant. Badges includes names only – not titles or affiliations. We design for unexpected conversations, and deep, non-transactional relationships that live on beyond the event. We do not distinguish between "speakers" and "participants" – we encourage everyone to participate in the full experience, and there’s a reason some of the busiest people on the planet choose to spend two days with us, year after year.