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MRYKAOK MRYKAOK - Photos
a childhood tale by means of the body
The ideal of mutual respect between adults and children that was inspired by Indian societies is on the play's name, but the scenes and choreographies are as scattered as the education the so called civilized practice. By means of body statements of each player, echoes from childhood are revealed present in today's bodies and images. Little unforgettable parts of life.
The play is about a time, childhood, that’s gone but will always be written on our bodies, no matter whether we are conscious of that or not. It also brings to stage, in poetic manner, a Lacan´s concept, in a esthetic reconstruction of actor’s experiences: “Body image begins its formation at childhood, by means of continuous internalizations of specific external images. This “cultural map” construction doesn’t depend on biological laws, but yet on relatives´ fantasies and significations about the body”.
MRYKAOK is a High Xingu Indian myth that represents the eel spirit, something similar to a bugbear, with a difference: the eel really exists and children are not supposed to bath when it is in the river. MRYKAOK translates, from the first phrases staging, how parents, adults, media and society in general were able to destroy such essential features for children development and how this fact is present in their lives every moment.
As the company was researching material for this play, it visited its own childhood, the socio-constructivism pedagogical principles, it got deeper in R. Laban's theories and found some Bathes statements that translate the soul of Artesãos do Corpo second creation: Biographical, remembrances from childhood, fixed as short haiku; little biographical unities, indexes of a lost body and now recoverable as a simple “plural of enchantments”; broken traces for which there are no words.
75 minutes, 7 players.
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