The colloquium is a place of encounter and a platform for discourse open to participants in the Laboratory Program of Research and Practice in Theatre and Performance. The forum of the first year is divided to discussions based on key notions regarding performance research and participants’ personal research and presentations in progress. It includes joint reading of articles about performance research and critical observation of performative case studies. The colloquium will be concluded with a one day conference, which will include participants’ presentations of short articles referring to their research projects.