1 00:00:02,556 --> 00:00:08,290 Essentially, my work is the fusion between classic [] texts 2 00:00:08,513 --> 00:00:11,678 and more declamatory elements of japanese novel Butoh stylings. 3 00:00:14,140 --> 00:00:17,926 A reaction against what I perceive as incipient recidivist tendencies 4 00:00:18,016 --> 00:00:19,448 in the contemporary theatre scene. 5 00:00:19,753 --> 00:00:24,051 Whereas most stage artists are embracing evermore linear, 6 00:00:24,149 --> 00:00:28,258 evermore static, evermore.. cinematic templates 7 00:00:28,258 --> 00:00:30,761 I chose to redefine for my audience 8 00:00:30,761 --> 00:00:32,500 for my audience the very notional form, 9 00:00:32,500 --> 00:00:36,823 challenging them to extricate meaning from what is admittedly theatrical subject. 10 00:00:36,971 --> 00:00:41,063 I’m inviting their participation in the construñtion of erratical new perception 11 00:00:41,472 --> 00:00:47,209 based on what I perceive to be tangible expressionists principles. 12 00:00:49,495 --> 00:00:59,150 Ah.. Show’s over, folks, okay? Bye! Yeah? Just.. 13 00:01:02,222 --> 00:01:04,574 Those people really love to watch you. 14 00:01:04,952 --> 00:01:09,949 Ah.. The FANS. They’re just confused. 15 00:01:10,533 --> 00:01:15,800 They are victims of our shallow popular culture whose fasñination 16 00:01:15,925 --> 00:01:19,988 with the artist superseded identification with the art. 17 00:01:20,336 --> 00:01:23,496 They suffer opacity of intellectual involvement 18 00:01:23,496 --> 00:01:27,083 and dissociate from any artistic expression 19 00:01:27,083 --> 00:01:31,403 not presented to them in a form of a readily digestible publem. 20 00:01:31,403 --> 00:01:33,523 I despise them. 21 00:01:33,662 --> 00:01:35,866 I thought you are really great. 22 00:01:36,317 --> 00:01:39,949 Greatness is not something what attains. 23 00:01:40,654 --> 00:01:43,345 Rather something what allows. 24 00:01:44,116 --> 00:01:50,493 Only through a sustained dedication to the craft 25 00:01:50,678 --> 00:01:55,393 and by forsaken the crushing distractions of the material world 26 00:01:55,393 --> 00:01:57,930 can one ever hope to become a proper vessel 27 00:01:57,930 --> 00:02:00,172 for the truths of the ephemeral plane. 28 00:02:00,642 --> 00:02:02,855 Is that why you don’t cook the stuff? 29 00:02:03,567 --> 00:02:06,875 The actor doesn’t cook. He acts. 30 00:02:08,108 --> 00:02:10,630 So where does the actor sleep? 31 00:02:11,281 --> 00:02:16,045 I eat, sleep, work, live and breathe here, 32 00:02:16,045 --> 00:02:19,444 in this concrete cube called a theatre. 33 00:02:20,170 --> 00:02:23,454 Why would I threaten what has already attendetive connection 34 00:02:23,454 --> 00:02:25,747 to the muse by residing outside of her geometry? 35 00:02:26,555 --> 00:02:28,113 That would be presumptuous! 36 00:02:28,798 --> 00:02:31,384 A spit in the face of the creative process. 37 00:02:33,155 --> 00:02:39,467 Well, I feel a little creative myself... 38 00:02:54,353 --> 00:02:54,919 C’mon .. 39 00:02:55,264 --> 00:02:55,845 Where are you going? 40 00:02:58,183 --> 00:02:59,675 To regurgitate my food. 41 00:03:00,275 --> 00:03:03,179 It was weakness to eat on the same day as the performance. 42 00:03:04,180 --> 00:03:07,180 Subtitles: Lunatic, Bankolya, HELEN 2008