CUT Project / DE-FENCES by Theatre ENTROPIA

Theatre ENTROPIA ensemble presents from January 27th until 29th 2011, at the Theatre Hall of Michael Cacoyannis Foundation, the performance “DE-FENCES”, the outcome of the international “CUT Project’.

The innovative “CUT Project” is an international production, on the occasion of the 20 years of Berlin’s Wall fall and the end of the Cold War. ENTROPIA’s Ensemble will try to explore the impact in our lives (microcosm) of the tremendous changes on politics and society (macrocosm).

Through research of various materials, documents, testimonies and personal accounts, improvisations inspired by photos, images, reportages and texts, we’ll attempt to test and grope our own identities in Europe’s new geography, as well as to question the remaining ‘walls’ and “separating lines”.

The project has been developed through research and residencies in still “cut” territories (Kosovo, Cyprus, Palestine), as well as Berlin – Germany (a symbolic and important reference), climaxing in presentations-events, and concluding into the final multilingual, interdisciplinary, multimedia performance “DE-FENCES”.

The spectacle (in its first form in-between web installation and performance), has been performed live in Athens, while in parallel real-time was being projected at venues in Berlin, Nicosia, Kosovo via live-streaming on the Internet, where the audience had the opportunity to visually “interact” with the spectacle they were watching via interfaces that New Technologies offer us. Their responses appeared on a separate screen on the performance’s stage in Athens, thus “it was contributing” to the spectacle. The event could also be projected via Internet on giant screens at selected spaces in other cities for their public.

Project’s Story so far: A team of artists of Theatre ENTROPIA, (Director – Dramaturge, Assistant Director, Visual Artist, Choreographer), the GUESTS, have visited both sides of the divided territory and have resided there for a period of 8 days. There, they had been joined by a group of local artists (Visual Artists, Performers, Musicians), proposed by the HOST organization in the area, and have had an intensive workshop with them. The two teams have worked collaboratively, collecting material, interviewing people, exploring sounds, impressions, stories and memories, that would lead to site-specific interventions and a public event, as a part of a work-in-progress, open to an invited audience the evening of the 8th day, and have been followed by a discussion / evaluation.