Becoming the Path - Themes, Images, Inspirations

[Arka Mukhopadhyay]

"One access to the creative way consists of discovering in yourself an
ancient corporality to which you are bound by a strong ancestral
relation. So you are neither in the character nor in the non-character. Starting from details, you can discover in you somebody other - your
grandfather, your mother. a photo, a memory of wrinkles, the distant
echo of a colour of the voice enable you to reconstruct a corporality. First, the corporality of somebody known, and then more and more
distant, the corporality of the unknown one, the ancestor. Is this
corporality literally as it was? Maybe not literally - but yet as it
might have been. you can arrive very far back, as if your memory
awakens. This is a phenomenon of reminiscence, as if you recall the
Performer of primal ritual. Each time I discover something, I have the
feeling that it is what I recall. Discoveries are behind us and we must
journey back to reach them.
With the breakthrough - as in the return of an exile - can one touch
something which is no longer linked to origins but - if I dare say - to
the origin?" - Grotowski

Do feel free to respond to this between now and the summer school.

Warmth and peace,
A

[Sacha Kagan]

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