La Tempest Physical Theatre
La Tempest Physical Theatre has created poetic and dynamic physical theatre pieces in Estonia, India, Chile and now Germany. La Tempest was originally founded in Denmark by Elías Cohen (Chile) and Thomas Bentin (Denmark) in the year 1997. In the year 2003 Elías Cohen took the artistic direction of La Tempest creating collective or solo pieces with more freedom and more artistic guests. Since 2008 La Tempest Theatre is under the umbrella and research platform provided by KiM (Kosmos in Movement) which was joined by Se-Rok Park as Co-Artistic Director in the city of Berlin.
SISYPHUS ROCK
Synopsis: The truly tragic moment of Sisyphus is when he is coming down the mountain in order to lift up again the stone in an endless and repetitive action. His tragedy is absurd and modern at the same time. Sisyphus got a futile punishment from the gods but a French philosopher can imagine a content Sisyphus accomplishing his task. How can that be? Albert Camus, a goal keeper in Algeria, was claiming in a bar 30 years later that the most absurd death of a man would be in a car accident. A sarcastic French salesman sells a luxurious Facel Vega, which happens to be the same car ending the life of Camus in 1960. Welcome to “Sisyphus Rock” a surreal and visual performance exploring the absurd existence of a man that brings us to sublime moments of humoristic self inquiry, weird stories and more weird endings.
Performer: Elias Cohen
Film – Visual Artist: Chan Sook Choi
Dramaturgy: Elias Cohen
Music: Se-Rok Park, Juan Salinas.
Direction Assistant: Se-Rok Park / Rosabel Huguet
Direction:[nbsp] Elias Cohen
Spicy Salad- Real Flesh
-The He/ She Project-
Directed & Choreographed by Elías Cohen
Synopsis: Spicy Salad- Real Flesh - The He/She Project- is two different choreographies where the main theme “Love” is treated as a big misunderstanding. It is a very precise and metaphorical theatrical choreography about modern couples and their way of relating to each other. Full of images, black humour and great stage energy this performance will give you a bizarre experience. Perhaps an extreme mirror?
2008 Kardiography
2008 Kardiography Created through a sequence of scenes we follow two men in their poetic obsessions playing in absurd ways with daily actions, human relations and notions of the grotesque. A piece on humour and corporal phantasy blurring the boundaries between physical theater and experimental dance. In 2008 Kardiography won the first prize as “best foreign Theatre-Dance performance” fromthe circle of critics of Chile.
2007
Cambio de Piel
La Ciudad Horizonte
2006
Genious Bartak: Revolution Hamlet
2005
Más que a Morir
La Última Bandera
2004
Ecos de Comala
2003
Hojas de Té
Colores del Poder
2001
Bitácora de un Actor (film)
2000
Echoes of Comala (Indian version)