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PERFORMINGUNIT
is new performance group founded in Breda in the beginning of 2000. The
group itself consists of experienced professionals who share diverse cultural
traditions and artistic histories.
In the first place, we develop diverse strategies and practices
in the area of performing arts.
We regard all our creations primarily as communication modes. |
PERFORMINGUNIT
approaches the performing arts in a broad way; therefore our working area
is performing arts and its linkage to interdisciplinary area. Instead
of defining ourselves as either theatre or dance group, we wish to dissolve
this opposition by creating interdisciplinary works.
Our point of departure is research in the area of performing art, based
upon two questions: ‘What the body can do?’ and ‘How to
do things with words?’ We elaborate our performing language as a
language of action, distinct from other art disciplines. Our performing
style merges intuitive and academic performing grammar. Accordingly, no
specific theatre or dance style introduced. |
PERFORMINGUNIT
is committed to an art that articulates questions and does not explain
or give answers. Our work explores the ideas of human condition especially
focusing the issues of contemporary identity; namely, contemporary individual
whose fragility increases as s/he is driven by the world’s complexity.
We combine materials of different sources and transform them into our
own performing language that is defined by a simple query: ‘Wherefore
is human?’
Our
working method pursues fundamental simplicity. We refuse an idea of ‘ideal’
performance, and regard our works as ‘unfinished and changeable.
Therefore, we deliver our creations within ‘session’ mode as
platform from which audience can then fashion their own experiences |
