Green Terror
Workshop Green Terror Amiliorative Theate
Valmozzola (Provincia di Parma) 2-8 August
http://www.granara.org/
Where will we go when the water runs out?
Every narrative begins with a question. In "Green Terror" Living Theatre Europa will confront not only the present and ever worsening ecological disaster whereby the earth itself and all that lives upon it are at risk, but we will approach also the failure of rationalism (science). If our ancients had an actual and active communion with a living and ever present sense of Earth (Gaia), and we propose that they did, at what point in human history did we loose this capacity? How has human society and its systems taken us further from Nature and ever closer to destruction? If humanity can rediscover its lost connectedness to Earth and Cosmos, will catastrophe be avoided?
Will the Earth strike back (Green Terror)?
Will ecological activists and artists (Green Terrorists) rally to incite direct poetic acts of green terrorism against the whores of science and their pimps (capital)?
Ameliorative theatre. to make something useful. Judith Malina
Mending the gap between human nature and human mind. Stein.
Through the use of new participatory rituals, through story-telling and myth exploration, through actual and theatrical Magic and Alchemy "Green Terrorism" proposes real discoveries by its participants within the theater event and then moving into the world (the street) with new actions that will bridge the distinctions between art and civil disobedience.
The theatre of change. Of emergency. Of feeling.
Action undoes the lie that spectators are dead by proving them active. The spectator becomes the performer, the theatre becomes life, the emergency is the truth.
Julian Beck
Ameliorative theatre. to make something useful.
To make something useful. nothing else is interesting. Nothing else is interesting to the audience, the great audience. to serve the audience, to instruct to excite sensation, to initiate experience, to awaken awareness, to make the heart pound, the blood course, the tears flow, the voice shout, to circle round the alter, the muscles move in laughter, the body feels, to be released from death's ways, deterioration in comfort. To provide the useful event that can help us. Help.
