Live Dissection - A Theatrical Perspective Inspired By The Work Of Aureliu Manea

For a performance to encompass an entire universe in a single gesture, it requires a meticulous dissection of all the elements—real and imaginary—that made the birth and existence of that gesture possible. Dance is the movement of the inner world, but also the movement of the surrounding air. The theater is the place where living bodies shed untruth, and the word becomes mere confession. The spectators’ gazes are varied, like the gazes of the seven witnesses in Rembrandt’s Anatomy Lesson. We intuit a few, and we sense the many, from the stage, diluted into the single gaze of the entire hall. “To witness an experiment is to enter into secret formulas, into that poetics of new reactions, of new communication in which the formula is tested in its vitality.”1 - these timeless words, belonging to director Aureliu Manea, a genius of Romanian theater, guide me even today in my first attempt to create, and in the second, even harder one, to inspire young choreographers to move their hearts and
minds, and ultimately, their bodies will follow. Then, in the very end, on the night of the performance, hearts, minds, and bodies will vibrate only if the Living perform on stage.