Tashmad - 'destruction' (the Jewish year of destruction), dada -- 'anything is possible' (the movement of artists from the turn of the 20th century involved in random ordering of the artistic palate - challenging the old in creating the new)

Good theatre always moves through a zero point, where movement stills, thoughts abate, images darken - where the creative spirit dies. Artists learn not to panic, but to carry on, to create. Inwardly the artist knows the importance of the zero. It has been caused by and it causes the act of pure creation.

The idea of zero implies a rendition, a beginning, or in binary, an opposite. So our definition of Tashmad involves the concept from Jewish mysticism that destruction, the shattering of a whole, can be caused by the power of pure creation. What remains is an emptiness. From this space theatre can make something from nothing.