A PLAY WITH TRADITIONS // PART I // PROJECTION

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«the past should be altered by the present
as much as the present is directed by the past» 

T. S. Eliot1

 

 

Projection

 

Tradition is past and future. To be a performer in a tradition is to take part in using old materials, attitudes and activities; to choose something to repeat, and from there to illuminate and rotate into new projections. Tradition is a play of the multitude of all voices. The voices of the past exist in the materials, attitudes and activities. With every new voice, ever new varied aspects and angles are put into play. Tradition is not first of all about repeating, but about how it is carried or driven forward.





«The living present is torn between a past which it takes up and a future which it projects

Maurice Merleau-Ponty2

 

 

 

«[Tradition is] the power to forget origins and to give to the past not a survival, which is the hypocritical form of forgetfulness, but a new life, which is the noble form of memory
Maurice Merleau-Ponty3


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