conversations in ten questions 23 : Samara Hersch
Interview with one of the four Netherlands-based theatermakers in PerformLab exchange programme in Istanbul. Ayşe Draz & Mehmet Kerem Özel [The Turkish translation of this interview is published on unlimited ] What is the essence of performance in your opinion? How do you define contemporary performance? For me, contemporary performance is about an encounter ; with another, with a stranger, with one self. I am curious about what can happen in this space between us, and what possibilities can be evoked, rehearsed, dismantled, that everyday life denies us. Do you believe in the transformative power of art? How? A friend recently said to me: I am less interested in vectors, but rather art that impregnates my mind with new thoughts and dreaming. I love this statement, because this is where transformation occurs for me, in the slowing down that art can create. By providing a stretching out of time, space and new assemblies, I believe that we are able to create alterna...