actions of dramas expressing
CRISIS | SCHISM | CONFLICT

Eugenio Barba — performers specialize in putting themselves in disequilibrium and then displaying how they regain their balance psychophysically, narratively, and socially only to lose their balance, and regain it, again and again.

ALL FOUR DIMENSIONS ARE KEPT IN PLAY

— transformations of time & space

— performing specific “then and there” in a particular “here and now”

A THEATER REALITY
a necessity to live as if
“as if” = “is”

PERFORMANCE is an illusion of an illusion and as such might be considered more “truthful” or “real” than ordinary experience

aristotle said: theater does reflect living, but essentializes it, and presents paradigms of it.

PLAYING OUT WITH MODES
EXPERIMENTALLY, PROVISIONALLY
(thus letting the actions hang unfinished)

they stand unsteadily on slipper bases

SUBJUNCTIVE, DANGEROUS, DUPLICITOUS &

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(LIMINAL) … relating to the point or threshold beyond which a sensation becomes to faint to be experienced — — moments that provide times of tension, extreme reactions, and great oppotunity

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… thus forced into framings or ways of making the places, participants, and the events somewhat “safe” …

THEY ARE MAKE-BELIEVE PRECINCTS
(boundaries or limits)