Since 2011 the Prague Theatre is dedicated to the catechesis. In different formats and with different themes this is always room for who wants to be in a moment of reflection , mixed doubtful intimacy and intolerant preaching. This time the preaching trip passes through the Gate 33 with André Teodósio and writer José Maria Vieira Mendes. Both helped participants not to find answers but to reformulate their questions. About theater, for example. But also literature or dance or dictionaries or deaths and births and stories and so on .
Catechesis why? It is a provocation ?
André Teodósio: No, we felt that we must share some grammar to get our megalopsique or transcendence of our soul. It is a position , an output of our everyday action , as we see us or a self -awareness so we can decide our future, or our way, so we tried to do with this catechism is to be human and our own god ex machina at the same time, we try to do anything and try to see anything. Catechesis is a kind of a conversion of other ways to do this, or other kinds of perception to the way we experience a particular form of consciousness.
One of these forms of consciousness is the sublime. Explains this idea.
AT: It's a way of living to live between real and what is not programmed and know and reality where we find ourselves daily. The sublime is that almost fanciful position, for example , to live in the real forever, or live only in fact , is the way we positioned ourselves in various contingencies , or types of ways of living , or happen to act , or thinking , in which we coexist . It's not only follow a path and not being alone in a place , is to take a step and know that can be deadly or not , is like the painting of Caspar David Friedrich , the man who is on the cliff , it has the real in front and has his life behind , if he take a step forward dies , if he goes back he continous his life, but does not have that aesthetic experience of reality, the monstrous beauty. It is precisely the maneuver of the sublime that we tried to do too.
So how goes the idea , the concept becames practice in the workshop ?
AT: What we are doing is doubt know, of being, that we are something to the idea that we are to be many things at once. So began this first step , the assignment of the theater is to be attributed things and then question what is being spent and something to be. Within this we know that we are living in relationship with many things for us which we used to mirror ourselves or use for mirroring . This last step is mirroring what we presented as being in and through the eyes of the others we manipulate our bodies , or our ways of acting according to what we are , but modifying it at the same time in order to be anything else. It is the case of the sublime , there is a real thing we forget , or we glimpse from time to time because we live in reality and then we lack the pace, because we want to be in the articulation of these two things . It is something practical, we have a text, we are in front of a mirror and tried an exercise of body movement , awareness, how we can represent while others are looking for and we will make us imitate anything and we also have to mimic what they are doing , is our imitation. It is a game of mirrors , is a total detachment from leftovers and still be the way until we get to nothing.
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