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language, they often interact with each other and their village from
different socio-political and cultural positions. This fact often remains
hidden in our society, and expressing it through a communal event
like the Performance Walk, might bring greater awareness to people,
helping them to better understand their own sense of belonging.
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with the de-codification of a carpet’s pattern might also open a
wider dialogue with the natural environment and provide a larger
overview on the complexity of the development of local traditions
and their specific historical contexts. Thus improvising a sounding
carpet can be an immersive way of both learning about traditional
weaving methods and about the sources of weaving as a traditional
community artwork through relatively simple acts of observation and
embodiment of shapes, colours, perfumes of the living environment.
The creation of intercultural social interaction in a theatre event can
contribute to the general wellbeing of a community, as the level of
communication between individuals can be heightened. Isolation
and solitude are emerging challenges in rural living all over in
Europe. If our intention is to support (intercultural) social interaction
between individuals in order to reach a more vibrant community,
it is important to foster the conditions to enable a sense of natural
curiosity towards difference and diversity and support the education
of reciprocal tolerance.
One of the traditional characteristics of rural festivity was always
linked to the sense of collective memory and to the art of
remembering. One of our agendas as the lead artists is to research
contemporary ways for the expression of collective memory (as
many traditional forms are lost already) by the community. Our
research into developing acts of remembering is also a recoding
process of the local identity, which can open dynamic and reciprocal
understanding about collective and individual sense of belongings.
A successful recoding process of the sense of belonging, is a
potential moment of inclusion: inclusion of the present moment,
inclusion of the eventual new settlers in the village, inclusion of the
marginalized members of the community, inclusion of a common
future perspective.
Finally, the research of a carpet’s pattern as potential musical
score facilitated by Dóra Halas can lead us to the recognition of a
pre-civilized level of creativity, beyond those traditional art forms.
This pre-civilized level can often be seen in young children who
experiment with shapes and colours of the environment seemingly
without conceptional cognitive mind-process. Experimenting
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