Acting in theatre of life need some reference to: how to be or not to be.
Before speech or action becomes reality, it is the brain that cook it, design it how it will takes form. The art of taking the information and the intelligent of interpretation is the master who will shape and choreograph it in mind (if mind = computer, PC or Mac, then we need – not only to choose the right program - to master well a certain program). The baby of reality is first born in mind as a starting point, as a seed to be developed and to be cultivated. Cultivated reality gives birth a new idea and idea becomes reality through theatrical work, through life reality. So, idea and reality are two poles of a circle where life is ruled and roles.
When an actor speak, she/he is maintained alive by idea/story and reality/action at the same time actors must give life ideas/story and reality. Actors find themselves walking/to be performing on a cord that hooks between two pole/point: idea and reality. Every act should be really true, a walking truth from a point (reality) to another point (idea) and vice-versa. This reality is in perpetual evolution, constant change.
And there is another triangle that actors must be aware of, is story – actor – spectator. If the actor think only the story, they will forget the audience; if actors think only about audience, they could forget the story. The three points must live its rotation, one lead the other two in turn.
In Balinese tradition: thought-speech-action is called manachika-wachika-kayika. A spoken word will be followed by its action and animated by its thought; and the present of one is accompanied be the other two, visible or invisible. When the three points are part of a circle then to make it roles smoothly in life, harmonious way of being is necessary to be maintained in order to keep the life harmonious.
An invisible idea must flow fluidly through /in speech and manifested itself in a solid action of existence as an evidence, as a proof, as a goal. This act of making it real is the necessary condition needed by theatre TriBuana. To express what is in mind is an healthy action, but we need to be aware of the environment and to whom expression is directed. A freedom to express what you have inside yourself (in mind, thought or emotion) is possible if the nature surround grows it (the freedom) naturally. A good climate is needed, a fertile ground conditions the growth. Not all inner germ must be put into reality. A healthy and harmonious mind/spirit will grows an healthy and harmonious action, that may be transit through speech. How to master the mind? It is an initial work to do before speak and act. Pondering, contemplating, meditating, studying, cultivating the three worlds (TriBuana) of human being.
What is tribuanic movement? It is a simple movement that contains sound/rhythm/music and thought/image/story. The timber of its sound/voice reflects the energy/the story of a movement. Listen deeply the sound of a movement to comprehend its spirit/ its energy/ its story. To feel and to understand correspond to the path of intuitive and intellectual activity. To pose quietly the thought, emotion and body is to enter into the state of emptiness and immobility '"state of meditation") so the cosmic mind do the work naturally; like when we sleep peacefully.
When two thoughts are in dialog, be aware to find the common subject and common objective to develop together during the discussion. If one logos is win in a dialog the other will lost, then one of the two will die (his/her opinion). Killing one's opinion it could be considered as killing a personal life, personal idea, personal belief.
Discussion in theatre is telling a story together. Discussion in life and in politic often create fight and war. Discussion in sound/music as making music together. Music is an important element of life that can transform human being like in "theatre".
When logic guide no more, belief take place in a certain form of devotion and we need to develop intuition as the fruit of profound meditation. A so called religious people or religious action is not a guarantee that they carry a wise and peaceful harmonious action. Theatre of the world can not give peace, as it is perform now on our beloved stage of earth. Even religion can not create peace if their follower don't know home to behave peacefully with the other. A guide of spirit/life that depend on words, their actors must be an excellent interpreter.
To comprehend a man (or a "thing") we must observe the means they use, to understand the goal (what they are searching) and to examine the criteria of their satisfaction, their happiness, their ecstasy (their paradise).
Oh, ocean of words where thought floating, where human creation navigate, body, art, technology, sciences, religions, how to smell your deepest perfumes, in IT there no more word to discover.
Logic and intuition live in co-operative way inside an actor. This way of acting demand actors to walk and to work by following the intellectual and spiritual path at once. Religions to be introspected, to be reborn. O names that make the different. Human being lives like hanging on word. Depending on words but go beyond it, so you reach a dwelling without word, the initial of all, the Big Bang, with No Thing, an Empty Fulfill. Where is that place? Where is that house of this kind of theatre? Who will attend this kind of presentation?
If we must keep our elements of “SELF” in harmony, there must be something new to be born in our present way of life where technology is advancing rapidly, the brain of human goes faster then the reality. The spirit could not be left behind. Some renovation is needed. To start exploring and setting “the way” without creating a terror in life, a peaceful path. Is it possible? Yes, if you are patience enough, if you are intelligent enough to be able to understand others behaviour and custom, not always wanting to get the result very soon. Everything that contains a deep meaning and a deep pleasure will take time and much other more other thing. This “other thing more” is the parameter of the “thing that you want”.
What is good for one may be not good for other. What is good in a place is not always good for other place. If we consume a way of life that was born in another place, be careful to adopt it in your home, in your place, in your country. What is good for now is not always good for tomorrow or yesterday. From these three parameters, we determine another parameter of goodness/badness or parameter of truth, there are: space, time and situation (situation that created by people and its surrounding).
To apply in life these parameters, we need to practice it in a laboratory of life that we call “theatre”. What kind of theatre? Let’s examine it in next writing, that I invite you to ponder and share opinion in this blog, to contribute to our worlds a proposition to do, to create, not only to produce a critic.
I remember a lullaby song that my parents and my grand parents sang: Ede ngadén awak bise, depâng anake ngadanin, geginané buka nyampat anak sai tumbuh lulu, ....(Not to make effort to name yourself, who you are, how good you are, like sweeping the yard of your house garden, growing dirty rubbish, it is the trace of your broom will name who you are: it is your work will tell who you are).
So, for a cultivated and illuminated person, word is not a determination, word is not the truth, word or image is not yet the reality. A strong, well balanced and deep truth will can not be shacked by others. A strong and healthy confidence/belief will never being disturbed by others. Strong means flexibly resistance, a capacity to re-exist in any condition, in any tempest.
be patience, watch attentively with care and smile, tribuanicly. This present is a present.
Montreuil, 2 February 2006.
Smile tribuana: tapa sudana.
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