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Just Enough Madness (2025)
My role: rehearsal direction and dramaturgy
“Debbie brings a rare sensitivity to the rehearsal room. Working with her has been transformative. She holds the choreographer’s vision at the centre while offering dramaturgical insights that bring honesty, sharpen intention, and deepen audience connection.
As a rehearsal director, Debbie's clarity, rigour, and generosity motivate the team and infuse the work with nuance. She has also enabled me to confront aspects of my process I might otherwise have avoided or felt uncomfortable with, opening up new layers in the piece.”
- Payal Ramchandani, Kuchipudi dancer
Kuchipudi dancer Payal Ramchandani invited me to join her new production, Just Enough Madness, as dramaturg and rehearsal director. Having never worked with the Kuchipudi form before, I was fascinated by the opportunity to learn more about the artist, the dance tradition, and the project itself. It has been a joy to work with such an exceptionally talented choreographer and creative team.
Just Enough Madness is a bold new dance-theatre that uses the fluidity of the Indian classical dance style of Kuchipudi to explore the silences surrounding motherhood, miscarriage, and mental health. Through poetic text, ritual, and a striking live musical score, the piece navigates the thresholds of unbecoming, and becoming an ‘almost’ mother, where joy meets rupture, and identity flickers between who she was and who she’s expected to be.
Just Enough Madness premieres at Dance City, Newcastle in November 2025 and goes on to a UK pilot tour in 2025/26.
