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“Theatre is a space in which the waking mind can address its illnesses; where paradox isn’t hypocrisy and mortality isn’t ignored; it is a sanctuary where monstrous apparitions can be viewed at arms length and laughed at; it is the shared pretence of momentary madness…”

--Henrietta Kuscht, Manifesto for the Ill, 1929



S a n c t u m is a visual performance company based in Melbourne, Australia.

S a n c t u m addresses the fragility of place, history and mind.

S a n c t u m   t h e a t r e is a ‘folk theatre’, a theatre of legend and lore, of fact and fiction.

S a n c t u m   g a l l e r y is a 'nomadic gallery'. It is transitory and inhabits  ‘sacred place[s] of pilgrimage’ .

S a n c t u m aims to establish a fluid dialogue throughout time, with those related to us through blood, place or empathy.

S a n c t u m events leave minimal footprints - a theatre of humility and resurrection.

S a n c t u m bases its’ practice on the ideas outlined in the writings of Henrietta Kuscht: 'proto-aquatic visualisation', 'para-lateral expulsion' and 'polymoronic manifestation'.

 


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Last Updated (Tuesday, 24 November 2009 13:47)