Pangea World Theater strives to build a just world by creating multi-disciplinary theater that embodies decolonizing practices of solidarity, sustainability, and equity. Pangea World Theater makes intercultural, sacred theater that stands for intersectionality and justice. Pangea World Theater creates authentic spaces for real conversations across race, class, and gender. Through a nuanced exploration of privilege, Pangea World Theater crafts ensemble-based processes with a global perspective. Pangea World Theater believes that artists are seers giving voice and language to the world we envision.

Pangea World Theater was founded in 1995, and is currently led by Artistic and Executive Director, Meena Natarajan, and Artistic Director and Co-founder, Dipanker Mukherjee. Since their inception, Pangea World Theater has worked with artists from many communities locally, nationally, and internationally to create new aesthetic realities for an increasingly diverse audience. Pangea World Theater is based on Lake Street, a vital corridor that runs through the heart of Minneapolis from the Bde Maka Ska Lake to the Mississippi. Pangea makes work that allows for multiple experiences and voices to arise and trusts artists and communities to tell their own stories in multiple, even contradictory ways. All of Pangea’s programs are presented in conjunction with community-based activities that include workshops, Open Ensembles, discussions, and outreach to schools. These events set Pangea’s works in their social, historical, and cultural contexts and provide an important link between the artists and the wider community.

Jerome Foundation supports Pangea World Theater’s Seeding Change Institute program. The Seeding Change Institute is focused on early career, Minnesota-based generative performing artists and interdisciplinary artists wanting to explore interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary work. Supporting eight artists over seven months, SCI will offer a fee, workshops, conversations, hands-on learning with guest artists, and readings with discussions. During the Institute each cohort member will develop their own artistic project alone or in collaboration with other cohort members. The cohort, as well as Pangea's Artistic Directors, guest artists, and the program director for SCI, will offer feedback and ongoing support on each project. There will be opportunities for the cohort to share their work with a larger audience and to have their work well documented. Everyone, regardless of what discipline they are working in, is invited to explore how different approaches might inform their work. Ellen Marie Hinchcliffe is the Seeding Change Institute Program Director.