Monday, December 01, 2008

Towards another political imagination

Ryszard Cieslak at work 1980

I heard Eugenio Barba once saying that "the greatest revolution is revolution against our own laziness." This is an essential principle for theatre training. Training is a fight against laziness. In this sense laziness for me is the opposite of concentration. Concentration in training is the basis of setting one's imagination free. Freeing one's imagination is necessarily political.
That is why I have borrowed Foucaut's phrase as one of HamletZar's motto:"Towards another political imagination."

"We have to construct another political thought, another political imagination and teach anew the vision of future."
– Michel Foucaut in J. Afary & K Anderson, Foucaut and Iranian Revolution, p. 185

I recall Philip Gaulier saying in a video interview "I teach theatre, I teach freedom" which is in essence the same as constructing another political imagination. Doesn't Étienne Decroux also touches upon the same notion when he says art is "decomposition of the natural and re-composition of the ideal?"

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