Manifesto
Our name is
adapt - Picture Theatre Collision.
We are an international group of artists, crossing art disciplines
and cultures, from Germany, Japan, the USA, Israel, Chile, Switzerland
and Denmark.
Our art disciplines are butoh dance, modern dance, experimental
theatre, performance, acting, writing, multimedia, music and action
theatre: "improvisational awareness training".
We have come together through the initiative of Shinichi
Momo Koga (San Francisco) and Minako
Seki (Berlin-Nagasaki). We believe to develop our own language
in the process of learning and studying new currents in theatre
and action art from our different cultures, and thus directly
from each other.
Globalization
The worldwide market has been changing and the world has been
globalized. We, a group of artists from different cultures, feel,
that we are part of this globalization. The future of any form
of art that is happening will have a cross cultural, globalized
character.
What has brought us together, is the sensation of exile. Our work
is founded on the circumstance that we are permanently being displaced,
and therefore permanently have to be in movement, as the world
is changing so fast that we also permanently have to change. Where
we wish to be, we never are once we have reached that place.
We are strongly influenced by narrative structures. Our interest
is to find out how we can support a "narrative sculpture" without
dominating it or working against it.
Our work is based on images of time, space, movement, light, sound
and music, which are all created from an emotional tissue or from
a sensation that creates resonances.
Ke-hi
Our background in some respect holds a kind of mystery. It's the
idea to create atmospheres - an idea originating in the Japanese
expression Ke-Hi "What is behind
us", an indication of our secret history.
Deserted buildings, empty rooms or places, that have actually
lost their function, are our source of inspiration. In this emptiness
we create the penetrating atmosphere of a "Gesamtkunstwerk" (an
overall, all encompassing piece of art, German word) and qualities
of being.
Site specific
We have gathered for a site-specific
work that deals with the architectural environment. In
this, our responsibility produces unnamed inner states of emotion
that have a universal human quality.
We are thus trying to create a "Gesamtkunstwerk", that is resting
between theatre, dance and installation.
It's us who will wake it up.
For the group Sten Rudstrom and Nils Willers
adapt are:
Shinichi Momo Koga
Minako
Seki
Yael Karavan
Yuko Kaseki
Nils
Willers
Sten Rudstrom
Contact:
Minako Seki - Nils Willers
Muskauer Str. 20, 10997 Berlin, Germany
Tel. + Fax: 0049 - 30 - 618 52 11,
eMail: minakoseki@yahoo.de
Yael
Karavan
117
Fordwych Rd
London NW2 3NJ, United
Kingdom
yael_ka@yahoo.com
