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MISSION STATEMENT:
We are a part of nature, because we are able to create. However, we
are also apart from nature, because we are able to question creation. Humans
walk through the path between irrational and rational, sacred and profane,
conscious and unconscious, east and west, good and bad, etc. On the way they
establish taboos to protect themselves from their conflicted nature, their
discontinuity, their endless becoming. While there is a constant desire to
define, to know and to formulate, there is also a tendency to eliminate, to
trivialize or to ignore one or the other existing oppositions. However, what makes a whole is the collision
of oppositions. If we remove one the whole shatters. The other is
not outside somewhere, but within our brains. Hence, before attempting to
unravel a social or political disorder, identity crises, gender issues of a
given society through arts, it is more crucial to approach human presence at an
existential level and to ask a basic and general question: How does human mind
function in conflicts? Stage is a laboratory to experiment on and explore this question.
Katharsis Performance Project is an emerging performance project dedicated to
present experimental plays written, directed and designed by Fulya Peker. It
intends to mediate between theory and practice, east and west, arts and
science; to create performances that are philosophically transformative,
poetically intimate and physically aesthetic. |
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THIS PROJECT IS FOR EVERYONE AND NOBODY!
The plays of Katharsis Performance Project are written as original poetic-dramatic texts or as adaptations of philosophical texts and novels. They intend to present metaphorical analogies between the explorations of natural sciences and the questions raised by humanities. Katharsis Performance Project explores various ritual and sacred expressions; articulates the relation between taboo and transgression; and reveals the ecstatic states of human consciousness (fear, sexuality and cruelty, etc.) while feeding on existential questions that would put human will in test in order to recognize when will power begins to resist nature and when the resistance of the reason breaks. The plays of Katharsis Performance Project are directed as verbal/physical theater pieces, carrying the torch of ancient performance practices through the path indicated by Artaud, Grotowski and Hijikata, further down into the dark corridors within; combining vocal, motional, textual and textural experiments. During the rehearsals Fulya Peker's SPLIT AND UNITE exercise is used. It is inspired by both the physical expressions of words, and the verbal expressions of the body; and created to trigger the sensory connotations of words and stimulate the bodies to respond to them freely; to create awareness about the interaction, integration, interjection, intersection, introspection and interruption between the physical and the verbal, while they separately but simultaneously express similar or different responses to sensory stimulants. Through this practice, performers split and unite the physical and the verbal, create the needed sensory language, and re-form words through gesticulations in response to a new found rhythm, pitch or various phonetic possibilities. The dominant stage design objects are fabrics that reflect a raw natural texture in accord with the subject of the play, accompanied by other earthy elements.
Katharsis Performance Project is open to collaboration with musicians and dancers.
Copyright © 2008-2009 by Fulya Peker |
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