Umewaka workshop insights

"Detached vision"

Among the Japanese this kind of vision of experiencing, is based on Buddhist principles.

The relaxed unconscious scanning, as Schechner refers to: -a selective inattention-

Noh is the exquisitely articulated masked theater of Japan that "developed from a variety of sacred rituals and festival entertainment arts... brought to a state of refinements and maturity during the Muromachi period (1336-1568)" (Komparu 1983:XV)

This Japanese echo "making perceptible the imperceptible forces" and the "becomings and intensities" of Deleuze and Guattari, also makes clear that such approach constitute a new gaze over contemporary theater praxis.

The hybridization of the performance and the diversity of media employed... these imperceptible intensities, together with their ontological status give rise to new modes of perception and consciousness.

Foto: katievanscherpenberg "furo"

Diferencia y repeticion

"Repetir es comportarse, pero en relación con algo único y singular, que no tiene semejante o equivalente. Y tal vez esta repetición como conducta externa hace eco por su cuenta a una vibración màs secreta, a un repetición interior y mas profunda. La fiesta no tiene otra paradoja aparente: repetir es irrecomenzable"

Gilles Deleuze

Foto: Marina Tanaka

Illich

Me imaginé a Iván diciendo todo esto en italiano con una cara seria y un mostacho grande y me dio risa. Creo que ni él ni yo, lo entenderíamos, aunque puede ser que él un poco más que yo...

Elogio della bicicletta

La bicicletta richiede poco spazio. Se ne possono parcheggiare diciotto al posto di un'auto , se ne possono spostare trenta nello spazio divorato da un'unica vettura. Per portare quarantamila persone al di là di un ponte in un'ora, ci vogliono dodici (corsie) se si ricorre alle automobili e solo due se le quarantamila persone vanno pedalando in bicicletta.

Ivan Illich.

Foto: Rogelio Lopez Cuenca

foreword

A path is a prior interpretation of the best way to traverse a landscape, and to follow a route is to accept an interpretation, or to stalk your predecessors on it as scholars and trackers and pilgrims do. To walk the same way is to reiterate something deep; to move through the same space the same way is a means of becoming the same person, thinking the same thoughts. It's a form of spatial theatre...

Rebecca Solnit, 2002:68

Foto: Katia van Scherpenbergievanscherpenberg

And indeed there will be time [...]

Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions.

T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

photo. Monica Alcantar 2010.

acció

para que un acto teatral suceda se necesitan dos.