Physical Plastic

Theater is a PHYSICAL domain. Our work requires the essential function of the physical performer, with a spatial and sensual expressivity that reveals new relations of sound, gesture and voice. We acknowledge the performer as a self-generating artist whose work is to liberate and give shape to the hidden creativity of the body-mind.

Theater is a PLASTIC art. It generates its own visceral language through the plastic materialization of ideas, the inherent power of its visual-aural palette being not simply to represent thought, but to provoke it. Our work is founded upon the marriage of visual arts with the time-based arts of music and text and the concrete possibilities of this inter-disciplinarity.

In response to racial and economic segregation, and rising tendencies of nationalism, we make a conscious effort towards international collaboration and a breadth of cultural perspectives, so as to better shed light upon issues both at home and abroad, and confront cultural differences directly, as part of our creative process. We are particularly interested in created exchange opportunities between the US and Cyprus, a country at the crossroads of Middle-Eastern, Mediterranean and Western cultures, and Greece, where Europe's social, economic and political foundations have been undergoing unprecedented challenges.

KESTREL FARIN LEAH is a director and performer collaborating across music, film, dance and visual art. She earned an MFA at CalArts and has shown work at venues such as: The Watermill Center; REDCAT; Human Resources and Blue Roof Studios, Los Angeles; and The Vail International Film Festival. Regular collaborators include artist Julie Bena, choreographer Brigette Dunn-Korpela, and WaxFactory theater company. She is published in The Theatre Times and writes for the performance publication Riting.

 

YIANNIS CHRISTOFIDES is a soundscape composer, creative sound designer and field recordist. Combining an interdisciplinary artistic, theoretical and technical background in electronic art music, sound design, cultural studies and communication, Christofides specializes in the creation of sonic experiences for stage and media. Much of his personal work investigates our experience of place through the use of field recordings as principal material. His work for art installation, stage and performance pieces, media and curatorial projects has been presented at leading venues and institutions throughout Europe and the Americas.