Every day is a Yes person day

Did you know that the 26th of May is officially Yes Man Day? 
Well, for us, every day is Yes Person Day.

We’ve officially started the creation process for our new show, Yes Person, and we’re writing to you from our first residency in Berlin. This is the part of the process that’s both raw and electric—where nothing is finished and everything is possible. The floor is messy, the coffee is good, and the ideas are bouncing off the walls faster than we can write them down. The beginning of a creation is always strange. Full of questions, trial runs, and awkward attempts. It’s not elegant. Not yet. But it’s alive. And that's what matters.

Meanwhile, backstage (or rather, in the workshop chaos), we’re deep in prop development with our stage designer Jakob Vonau. It's part brainstorming, part building, part trying not to glue ourselves to the floor. But slowly, the world of Yes Person is starting to take shape. Visually. Physically. Emotionally. Philosophically.

At the end of April, we also had a partner meeting right here in Berlin with our wonderful w/-network partners. We shared a few fragments of the show-in-the-making. Just glimpses. A gesture here, a half-finished sequence there. It wasn’t much, but it was honest. The kind of showing that says: this is where we are. No polish, just process. There’s something beautifully chaotic about these early weeks. It’s a time when you throw things into the space—not just props and movements, but questions. Big ones. Silly ones. Hard ones. We don’t have a script or a fixed structure yet. What we do have is a starting point: the strange, complicated idea of saying yes.
What does it mean to be a yes person in a world that’s constantly demanding something from you? Where does willingness end and self-erasure begin? Can saying yes be a form of resistance—or are we just people-pleasing ourselves to death? These are the questions that echo through the studio right now, somewhere between the balance boards, sweat stains, and half-formed monologues.

And we’re not doing it alone. In our next residency, we’re thrilled to be joined by Philine and Salvatore from My!Laika, artists whose work we admire deeply and who know a thing or two about chaos and control (sometimes literally). Collaborating with them feels like lighting a match in a room full of dry ideas—sparks are guaranteed.
We’ll keep sharing as we go—what’s working, what’s not, and what’s keeping us up at night. If Yes Person has taught us anything already, it’s that the performance doesn’t start on opening night. It starts here, in the mess. In the yes. We’ll be back with more soon. Until then, say yes to something absurd today. Say yes to something that scares you. It’s all part of the process. 

More soon. -Inka