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without
i am a flame
a scream from an unbelievable past
not easy to remember this title

After years of censorship Stere Popescu, a romanian choreographer wanted to put his entire life philosophy and art in one dance piece - the hammer without a master. 45 years later we (Brynjar Bandlien, Florin Flueras & Antonja Livingstone) want to do something around this piece. First we tried to reconstruct the aesthetic of the piece based on a documenting process and interviews of the protagonists. During the process we understood clearly that is not possible to get objective information about the piece. But the way how memory function and how the protagonists "performed" the interviews brought a new dimension in the process and oriented the work in the direction of playing with the remembering behaviors and with the relation reality-fiction, present-past. Now we go a step further wanting to be free from this frame and to go with the "reconstruction" at the level of attitude and concept. The approach goes from the level of object at the level of the intimate processes and attitudes that initiated the work, feed it and made the piece possible. We want to have the same burning passionate approach as Stere Popescu, the same intention to integrate our understanding of art, society and human condition, the same anvergure and courage to question and work with the big themes and concepts like love, affectivity, art, sexuality, time, society, transcendence and death. The hammer without a master is just a great pretext for us to go beyond ours deepest life philosophies using past aesthetics and big themes - like in the old times of art.