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camin<\/em>\u00a0<\/i>is the Occitan word for the path or the way<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span>Aktio<\/em>n, well\u2026 the German word for actio<\/span>n ?<\/p>\n \u00ab\u00a0The goal is the journey.\u00a0\u00bb<\/span><\/p>\n That\u2019s what is said about life\u2019s major journeys. Traveling gives us the opportunity to lose our bearings and reach towards others, allowing for a change of perspective and casting our compasses overboard.\u00a0Goethe<\/span>\u00a0said: \u00ab\u00a0Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.\u201d\u00a0Traveling makes the spirit noble and rids us of prejudices<\/span>. The Stranger, our mirror, our master of self-awareness.<\/p>\n When away from home, we bring something with us, we inspire, and we meet those who live there or who are just passing through. We share and continue on our path\u2026 differently\u2026 rich with human interactions (and a few blisters on our feet).<\/p>\n Isn\u2019t this experience the same with Performing Arts? The path is the process of creation, the creator\u2019s research. And once he\/she has completed the work \u2013 which is more or less complete \u2013 the process continues. \u00a0Work accomplished, but artist inescapably dissatisfied because it\u2019s never really finished as\u00a0Jacques Tati\u00a0<\/span>said.<\/p>\n But it\u2019s this dissatisfaction that fuels creation: he\/she who constantly ponders yet who is crazy enough to exhibit the creation of his doubts in front of a crowd.<\/p>\n Now it\u2019s time to meet the audience, audiences, and community:\u00a0Performing Arts lives<\/span>. It lives on stage with audiences, and each and every time, it\u2019s unique.<\/p>\n The theater, in its strictest sense, is this\u00a0sacred ceremonial<\/span>. Theater,\u00a0the\u00f3s<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0ast\u00e9ri<\/em>, God and the Stars: the encounter with something spiritual that is created at this precise moment, a magical moment as\u00a0Peter Brook<\/span>\u00a0describes it so well in\u00a0The Empty Space<\/em>\u00b9<\/span>. Inexplicable why it happens (or not), but when the artist enters in communion with the audience, that\u2019s when we\u2019re moved, when the catharsis is released.<\/span><\/p>\n This is also when the art of the interpreter is embodied: the dancer rehearsing sequences his body has memorized, translating emotion into movement, and who lives each instant like it was the first by being present in the space, rhythm, time, music or silence.<\/p>\n It\u2019s the actor who shines light on the text written beforehand by an inspired author, and who brings it to life, making us vibrate.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Texte” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n The choreographers\u2019 or directors\u2019\u00a0magic<\/span>\u00a0enchant, shock, move and interrogate us. In other words, the magic makes us different than who we were when we arrived.<\/p>\n This magic is also sprinkled onto the many technicians, who bring life to the theatrical machine. They bathe the stage in ephemeral colors, create subtleties and nuances with sound, have the knowhow to manipulate machinery; they are our\u00a0Deus-ex-machina<\/em><\/span>.<\/p>\n The Production team has innate listening skills to transform the artist\u2019s dream into reality and to convince others to close their eyes and just listen.<\/p>\n The Administration team knows how to navigate the ship within the twists and turns of obligations, which are not only outrageously complex, and at times, paradoxical.<\/p>\n The magic continues to shine with the workers backstage, and cleaners who give us a pleasant environment. The ushers are the angels accompanying the spectator into this dreamlike space, the theater.<\/p>\n If the goal is the journey, and the process is the heart of the show, we can compare ourselves to\u00a0walkers<\/span>. Just like those who walk the unknown beaten track, they arrive, stay, then leave\u2026 it\u2019s similar in our professions: we come from afar, we live with residents for a single evening, and just like the buskers of yesteryear, we leave straight away carrying with us, a one-of-a-kind experience.<\/p>\n On a journey and in our professions, we accompany and we are accompanied. We depend on each other, and it\u2019s a good thing. Artists need accompaniment to travel from amateur practice to emergence or professionalism, in order to acquire their language, this universal language in which they speak to us. Accompany those who will hold the reins of tomorrow\u2019s production and organization, a new generation of artists with their own aesthetic and language, who will build theaters on our foundations.<\/p>\n We travel mentally and physically. But the most beautiful is\u00a0living together<\/span>\u00a0for a lapse of time, creating together. Listening to and understanding others, taking steps away from our own perception of things is also a way of getting closer to each other. We inevitably have places we love all over the world; places where we like to settle and call \u201chome\u201d.<\/p>\n Walkers<\/span>.<\/p>\n The notion of a country or a specific culture (if that exists, I have my doubts) fades with life being lived, with encounters on journeys, with love: we accumulate\u00a0successive layers of identities<\/span>, visions, languages, customs, and all of this makes up our own unique culture. We transform throughout life into something universal if we dare to admit it, without the fear of losing ourselves, but with the courage of finding ourselves\u2026 in others.<\/p>\n This is the way I understand the notion of \u201chomeland\u201d (because those who speak of roots, speak of the land that nourishes us), not an exclusive idea, but a land of refuge, an inclusive notion. The soil we walk upon, the landscapes we travel across, the country we settle on for a fleeing moment or for a lifetime, we, immigrants of life, strangers everywhere else, but at home.<\/p>\n This place, a lottery of geography and time, where chance or another destiny dropped us at birth\u2026 This land where we pass through to end up somewhere else, like a\u00a0spotlight that shines the present moment on our ephemeral existence<\/span>. 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