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Ethnographic theater making is not just a modality for staged representation or reenactment. It is a modality of radical anthropological knowledge coproduction, one that disrupts authorship, self, linearity, and proposition‐based knowledge through multimodal, multisensorial, collaborative, and embodied processes. In both incubation and performance, multimodal and multisensorial elements such as voice, body, memory, sound, movement, text, rhythm, velocities, and dialogic relations to other media combine, collide, and fuse to invent ways of knowing, expressing, and documenting. I argue that this multimodal alchemy works not just through the fusion of novel elements but through well‐known theater‐creation processes designed to rewire relations to self, other, language, body, and creativity. Through a discussion of the alchemy of ensemble‐building processes and physical theater tableau creation, and drawing from ten years of work in this arena with twenty different projects, I offer a window into the potential of collective theater making as a mode of anthropological practice that strikes to the core of what we do and what we hold at stake. [theater, ethnography, embodiment, ways of knowing, multimodality]

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