Before reading further, adjust your bodily position.

Notice your breathing; the weight of the book in your hands, or on the surface where it rests; the position of your body – sitting, standing, reclining.

Reading is also a situation. A choreography of attention.

A relation between bodies that are not the same.

Under what conditions can friendship take place at all? If theater is not only a site where relations are represented but one in which they are continuously produced, then a reflection on friendship in the context of theater brings to the fore the shaping of the encounters out of which friendship might emerge. This, for me, is a choreographic question. Not choreography understood as the arrangement of steps or movements, but as the composition of relations: how bodies are placed in proximity, how attention circulates, how time is shared, and how conditions are set for something to happen between us.

Friendship cannot be reduced to affect alone. It is more than a matter of liking, affinity, or shared values, though all of this matters. It depends on infrastructures – temporal, spatial, social – that allow for proximity, attention, and the possibility of exchange. Theater has long been a...