WALDEN
The title WALDEN is a pond in the middle of a forest at which Henry David Thoreau built his cabin and moved into it on July 4, 1845, and where he lived alone for the next two years. In the performance it becomes a symbol of a place of seclusion, and escape from the overwhelming reality. A place where one can think in peace and test a new model of life.
WALDEN it is a story about self-reliance and about necessity of a conscious approach toward nature, state and civilization. It also draws attention to the sensible listening of the world.
The performance, based on the novel by Henry Thoreau, also referring to his treatise on Civil Disobedience, is inspired by the convention of the nineteenth-century box theater, expanded with live, performative plan. At the same time it operates with modern means crossing the borders of theater, visual and sound arts. The picture remains static, as in the 19th century dioramas, becoming a kind of illustration for the action taking place in the partiall…
WALDEN it is a story about self-reliance and about necessity of a conscious approach toward nature, state and civilization. It also draws attention to the sensible listening of the world.
The performance, based on the novel by Henry Thoreau, also referring to his treatise on Civil Disobedience, is inspired by the convention of the nineteenth-century box theater, expanded with live, performative plan. At the same time it operates with modern means crossing the borders of theater, visual and sound arts. The picture remains static, as in the 19th century dioramas, becoming a kind of illustration for the action taking place in the partiall…
