Floating Space

Join Jake Oorloff and Ruhanie Perera as they present and perform from the Floating Space Archive, reflecting on the the cultural dynamics of place, context and narrative that locates the theatre making practice of Floating Space in its first ten years (2007-2017).

A conversation between its founding members Jake Oorloff and Ruhanie Perera and collaborating artists who shaped the artistic intentions of the performance work produced during this time. This sharing introduces audiences to a theatrical language, its visuality and the working principles of Floating Space Theatre Co. that traces how ‘making’ is situated in time and context, as much as it is a critical point of departure for articulating individual and collective senses of practice.

The lecture performance is presented as part of the KALĀ South Asia- a Platform for South Asian Art on Tuesday, the 6th of February 2024 at the Lionel Wendt Art Centre.

For more info and to access the full programme visit 🔗kalasouthasia.com

Ruhanie Perera and Jake Oorloff present a storytelling workshop as part of the KALĀ South Asia - a Platform for South Asian Art on Tuesday the 6th of February 2024 at the Lionel Wendt Art Centre.

The workshop explores narratives drawn from personal archives in the making of performance. Using the frame of monologues and/or collectively devised scenes, participants will create short performances derived from their personal archives. The core workshop content draws on approaches to storytelling that utilises visuality and movement, as well as working with objects and space that has been integral to the applied theatre and performance making practice of Floating Space.
Open to 20 participants interested in theatre making and performance.

For more info and to access the full programme visit 🔗kalasouthasia.com

A few moments captured from the Storytelling Workshop “Let’s Share Our Story” in Matara organised by The Gratiaen Trust conducted by the Floating Space team led by Chalana Wijesuriya.

This workshop was focussed for children on the approaches of storytelling through their lived experience and structuring a story.

Designed by artistic director Jake Oorloff the approaches to storytelling and performance making builds on a 15 year practice of working with personal stories and lived history by FS.


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Checkout the pics from our workshop last weekend at the

'(Y)our Story' is a storytelling workshop that is specially designed for children and young adults by and a version of this workshop was presented with teens last weekend at the Museum. The approaches to storytelling and performance-making builds on a 15 year practice of working with personal stories and lived history by the company and is one of the many workshop offered by FS.

(Y)our Story happens this week at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Sri Lanka( MMCA).

Through a series of exercises, participants will be exposed to methods of viewing events and experiences from their own lives and finding inspiration for stories that can be shared with others. Participants will also learn how to receive stories that are different to our own experiences and the politics of personal narratives and counter-hegemonic narratives.

The workshop conducted by Jake Oorloff will be based on Floating Space Theatre Company’s approaches to storytelling and performance-making practice developed over a period of 15 years in their work with communities of children and adults both in Sri Lanka and India.

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Workshop: ‘(Y)our Story’ with Jake Oorloff (15–18 yrs)
Jake Oorloff Floating Space

17 September Saturday, 2–5pm

Join theatre practitioner and performance artist Jake Oorloff of Floating Space Theatre Co. in a special workshop for teens. The workshop will focus on the basics of storytelling; participants will be supported to find inspiration from one's own life and the world around them and create a performative moment that can be shared in a group or as a performance.

If your child would like to participate in the above workshop, please register them using the following link. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/418926038057

Entry to the museum and its workshops are free. All materials will be provided. For any queries please write to us at [email protected].

වැඩමුළුව: ජේක් ඔර්ලොෆ් සමග ‘(Y)our Story’ (අවු. 15–18)
සැප්තැම්බර් 17 සෙනසුරාදා, ප.ව. 2–5
Floating Space Theatre Co.හි වේදිකා වෘත්තිකයෙකු සහ අභිවාහ්‍ය කලාකරුවකුවන ජේක් ඔර්ලොෆ් සමග නව යෞවනයින් සඳහා පවත්වන විශේෂ වැඩමුළුව හා එක්වන්න. මෙම වැඩමුළුව කතාන්දර කීමෙහි මූලික කරුණුවලට අවධානය යොමුකරනු ඇත. සහභාගිවන්නන්ට තම ජිවිතයෙන් හෝ අවට ලෝකයෙන් ආශ්වාදයක් සොයාගෙන පිරිසක් සමග බෙදාගත හැකි අභිවාහ්‍ය මොහොතක් හෝ රඟදැක්වීමක් නිර්මාණයකිරීමට සහයලැබෙනු ඇත.

ඔබගේ දරුවා මේ වැඩමුළුවට සහභාගිවීමට කැමති නම්, පහත ලින්කුව යොදාගෙන ලියාපදිංචිවන්න.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/418926038057

වැඩමුළු ගාස්තුවලින් තොරයි. සියලු අමුද්‍රව්‍ය ලබාදෙනු ඇත. ඕනෑම විමසීමක් සඳහා කරුණාකර අප වෙත ලියන්න:
[email protected].

பயிற்சிப்பட்டறை: ஜேக் ஒர்லோப்புடன் ‘(Y)our Story’ (15–18வயது வரை)

17 செப்டம்பர் சனி, பி.ப. 2–5வரை

Floating Space Theatre Coவின் மேடைக் கலைஞரும் நிகழ் நடிகருமான ஜேக் ஒர்லோப்புடன் சிறப்பு பதின் பருவ வயதினருக்கான பயிற்சிப்பட்டறையில் கலந்துகொள்ளுங்கள். இப் பயிற்சிப்பட்டறையானது கதைசொல்வதின் அடிப்படைகளை பற்றியதாகும். பங்குபெற்றாளர்கள், அவர்களின் வாழ்க்கையிலும் அவர்களை சுற்றியுள்ள உலகத்திலுருந்தும் கதைக்கருவை தெரிவு செய்து நாடக சூழலை குழுவாகவோ அல்லது நிகழ்ச்சியாகவோ காட்சிப்படுத்துவார்கள்.

உங்கள் பிள்ளை இப் பயிற்சிப்பட்டறையில் கலந்து கொள்ள விரும்பினால் கீழே குறிப்பிடப்பட்டுள்ள இணைப்பைத் பதிவு செய்யுங்கள்.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/418926038057

அருங்காட்சியகத்தின் உள்நுழைவு மற்றும் பயிற்சிப்பட்டறைகள் முற்றிலும் இலவசமாகும். தேவையான அனைத்து பொருட்களும் வழங்கப்படும். மேலதிக கேள்விகளுக்கு [email protected]. எனும் மின்னஞ்சல் முகவரியில் எம்மை தொடர்புகொள்ளுங்கள்.

‘Surely the world can be saved by all the people who insist on love.’ In solidarity with ‘s community as we celebrate humans in all its diversity.

Floating Space is now on WhatsApp.

The Table Top Stories performance-making workshop with and culminates with a sharing of from our tomorrow. The sharing will be over zoom and can be accessed by anyone with the link. If you are keen to see some of the work DM us for the link!

FS has been somewhat busy even through this particularly difficult time. in have had a particularly difficult few years of covid and now the present crisis. FS as part of our commitment to supporting artists and collaborating with other institutions and artists are pleased to have been able to work with to present the Table Top Stories for the second time. Five artists were provided with bursaries and had the opportunity to work directly with forced entertainment over a four week period developing and table top performances. The closed call engaged and ***r artists from different artistic disciplines including theatre, animation, classical dance, and storytelling. In addition to this three artists from last year’s workshop were mentored on their ongoing performance work.

In solidarity with the people on the street - trying to save this country!

Photos from last evening’s event. The Foreigner by presented as part of and supported by floating space.

Floating Space team this evening with at the Rio Cinema Complex as part of .
The Sri Lankan iteration of Ahilan Ratnamohan’s ongoing performative series, The Foreigner, uses atypical performative and interactive methods to respond to the specific linguistic and cultural fabric in the country through a series of language-based games. Audiences are invited to come and play specific games with learners of Sinhala who have no conventional performance training, and question their own assumptions related to the role of proficient language use in communication.’

This performance is supported by Floating Space Theatre Co.