CONDUIT

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​It's about opening up...
...portals to other dimensions
...the Self
...in order to be a portal  to other dimensions       ?

It’s also about stepping through...
...portals          ?
...the Self          
...a mind field              ?!

What’s an open portal anyways?
What comes through is 
...imagined
...maybe real
...banal
...personal
...random
...unexplained movement
...fantasy
...desire
...neurons
...mystic visions
...embarrassing
...aliens 
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​...a solo performance which proposes the role of the performer as a cosmic channel and attempts to dissolve the distinctions between the mystical and the banal. The work presents a process of worlds merging, colliding, cooperating and interrupting each other.  As a vehicle for navigating this quantum universe is the soloist who draws from his personal and professional archives in an attempt to create portals and bridges between dimensions and parallel realities. An ambitious and vulnerable process of expanding consciousness and riding the consequences and transformations.

Shown at Dock 11 in Berlin

• ​15-16 September 2016 (Premiere) 
• 9 August 2018 in the "Once in California..." Festival

​Choreography and Performance: Jorge De Hoyos 
Outside Eyes/Dramaturgical Support: Gretchen Blegen & Leyla Postalcioglu
Light Design: Gretchen Blegen
Sound: Marc Lohr
Technical: Emese Csornai with Yina Mora 
*Video documentation by Marc Seestaedt (marcseestaedt.de)
*Photos by Emre Altan

Special Thanks to Dock 11 & Peter Pleyer, Theater Haus Mitte, Ausland & Gretchen Blegen, Çıplak Ayaklar Kumpanyası in Istanbul for generous rehearsal space, Michael Shapira for outside eyes, Emre Altan, Honey Jernquist, Marc Seestaedt, and Julia Rodriguez for outside eyes and dramaturgical support as well.

English Language
Duration: 60 minutes