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In this series of interviews we try to get to know the artists who performed in İstanbul Fringe Festival 2022. Our last guest is Agnieszka Kazimierska from t he former Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards .   Ayse Draz, Art Unlimited Performing Arts Editor & Mehmet Kerem Ozel, Writer  © Nikita Chuntomov What is the essence of theater in your opinion? A deep and meaningful, living - thus necessarily in flesh - nourishing encounter among human beings that is based on craft. It entails mastery of being in relation. A space in which the quality of people’s attention becomes a gentle container for awakening what is hidden, for a common communal journey through ideas, ideals, dreams, desires, which are all rooted and living in the body and often kept dormant. A space of revealing and revelation. A space of generous giving. Of giving up. Do you believe in the transformative power of art? How? Yes, definitely. Not all art, not any “art” has this power, but def...