The Wooster Group

A great influence in contemporary theatre.
The New York Group has shaped many of the things that is still seen as groundbreaking today.

Last Picnic

To celebrate the end of the final shows nothing like a good British picnic. Nice food and loads of drinking....

Back to Essaying

My final project is done and now it's time to the final essay. One more weeks of this and then finally what I've dreaming for months!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Boal

The Death of a Master!

Augusto Boal importance is the theatre is comparable to Brecht or Stanislavki, in his work Boal was able to open new directions for theatre in a personal journey towards political theatre and social changes.

Adeus Boal!

25 de Abril Sempre

The Carnation Revolution ( Revolução dos Cravos), also referred to as the 25 de Abril, was a left-leaning military coup started on April 25, 1974, in Lisbon, Portugal, that effectively changed the Portuguese regime from an authoritarian dictatorship to a democracy. Despite repeated appeals from the revolutionaries on the radio inciting the population to stay home, thousands of Portuguese descended on the streets, mixing themselves with the military insurgents.

A group of Portuguese officers organised in the Armed Forces Movement rose to overthrow the fascist/authoritarian Estado Novo (New State) regime that had ruled Portugal since the 1920s.

Although the regime's political police, PIDE, killed four people before surrendering, the revolution was unusual in that the revolutionaries did not use direct violence to achieve their goals. The population, holding red carnations (cravos in Portuguese), convinced the regime soldiers not to resist. The red carnation is a symbolic flower for Socialism and Communism, which were the main ideological tendencies of the anti-New State insurgents. The soldiers readily swapped their bullets for flowers. It was the end of the Estado Novo, the longest authoritarian regime in Western Europe, and the final dissolution of the Portuguese Empire. In the aftermath of the revolution a new constitution was drafted, censorship was formally prohibited, free speech declared, political prisoners were released and the Portuguese overseas territories in Sub-Saharan Africa were immediately given their independence.

Heidegger

Martin Heidegger
The philosopher of Being.
The thinker that influenced most of today's thinking.
How could this man believed in the National Socialism proposed by Hitler?

How to go to a performance in London?

1- You have to be aware of what is going to happen in advance ( Go to internet, talk to your friends, buy timeout or whatever you need to do to get the information)

2- Choose the performance and buy immediately the ticket on the web (at least two months in advance)

3- In the day of the performance plan your journey in advance, if your going by tube check on the web if there is no problem with some tube line that you need to catch, if by bicycle plan very carefully the route and take the London A to Z with you (the book with all the names of streets), if your going by bus leave at least two hours in advance.

4- The time of the performance will be right during dinner hour so take a little snack with you to eat before or after the show or money to buy something.

5- Although it is common in this country to people take a pint of beer or a glass of wine to the theatre we do not advise it. Not do we advise drinking alcohol before the show, as it is usual in this city, if you are really interested in the work that you are going to see.

6- If the performance is really good, you can try and do something completely different from a what London audience would do to clap standing up.

7- Enjoy your performances...

Mestre André

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Até Já Lori

Lourenço one of the members of the Vauxhal family has left and gone back to Portugal. Até já! Oh Lori!

Cheiro a Alentejo!

Yesterday cycling to my house
Crossing Peckham
Coming from the library carrying books about being, Heidegger, Ando, Zen..
I felt a familiar scent.
I felt the scent of Alentejo
My father's land
My childhood
I felt the tears rising in my chest
I felt the tears in my body
Filled with emotion
I felt lost
Like a little boy
That couldn't find his way home
And I couldn't cry
In my Country they don't teach little boys to cry...
And I continued cycling to my house
In that warm Spring day...

Ontem circulava de bicicleta por Peckham
Voltava para casa carregado de livros
Heidegger, Being, Ando, Zen...
Quando senti um cheiro familiar,
Um cheiro que não consegui nomear imediatamente.
Era o cheiro do Alentejo.
Cheiro da terra do meu pai,
Da minha Infancia
Dos meus Verões.
Quando percebi de vinha aquele cheiro
Emocionei-me
Como uma criança que se perdeu
E não consegue encontrar o caminho de casa...
Emocionei-me...
E com as lágrimas ao canto do olho
Não consegui chorar, porque no meu país não ensinam os meninos a chorar.
E segui o caminho apreciando o dia quente de Primavera.

London Spring

This week in London we've had the most wonderful weather!
Spring Seems to have arrived.
Although, one wonders, for how long?
Londoners say that usually in March there is a beautiful sunny week and that's it for the whole year!
Let's us see how long this week will last and just accept the British weather for what it is!

Chanoyo

Are we in need to return to our true nature? Our interdependence? To embrace a non-anthropocentric being?



‘The tea-drinking that is known as cha-no-yo in Japanese and as “tea ceremony” or “tea cult” in the West is not just drinking tea, but involves all the activities leading to it, all the utensils used in it, the entire atmosphere surrounding the procedure, and, last of all, what is really the most important phase, the frame of mind or spirit which mysteriously grows out of the combination of all these factors.’

 D.T. Suzuki

‘The tea ceremony is a technology designed to recapture a lost nature. Artificial and formalized in its every movement and gesture, the tea ceremony removes excess in order to exalt the simple clarity of being.’
Michael Heim

Start Now Dress Rehearsal

Tomorrow I have another presentation. Before having a good night sleep, hoping to recover from a cold. Here are some photos of today's dress rehearsal.

Is there Buddha Mind in contemporary art?

J. Cage’s thinks that ‘the distinction between art and life must somehow be overcome’ as ‘ a corollary of the Zen idea that the distinction between religion and life is to be overcome.’






‘Zen teaches nothing. Whatever teachings there are in Zen, they come out of one’s own mind. We teach ourselves; Zen merely points the way.’ D.T. Suzuki

M. Duchamp: THE MASTER of Contemporary Art

‘Marcel Duchamp changed not only how we experience art, but how we experience life. He helped us see that everything in the world is worthy of our attention, and to understand that –our attention – is the creative act.’

A MASTER: J. Cage

‘Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating.’

John Cage

Orlan's Carnal Art

'Skin is deceiving… in life, one only has one’s skin… there is a bad exchange in human relations because one never is what one has… I have the skin of an angel, but I am a jackal… the skin of a crocodile, but I am a puppy, the skin of a black person, but I am white, the skin of a woman, but I am a man; I never have the skin of what I am. There is no exception to the rule because I am never what I have.'
Eugénie Lemoine-Luccioni

Spring Solo: AmálioVsAmália or the life of Jaime Vishal

Master's Solo

Amálio Vs Amália ou a Vida de Jaime Vishal

Snowy London

 Master Enjoying London in the Winter Days

Performing At Shunt - The Mermaid

The Master and some Classmates performing at Shunt. Daniel Sommervile's performance 'The Mermaid'.

Adeus Jaime!

Coberto de Lágrimas Me Despeço!

  

A Diva

Tadao Ando - Water Temple

Tadao Ando: 'Man articulates the world through his body... At the same time, the body is articulated by the world.' (Ajaykumar, (2005). Dynamics of psycho-spheres. Context: Journal of the Development Organisation for Nature, Arts and Heritage, vol. 2, no.2, 2005)

Master's Next Solo

 AmálioVsAmália            

The Master is Back!

After several problems in the end of 2008, the Master is back to continue is path into Enlightenment!!