ORALITY AS A SHARED FRACTAL
CRA’P Presentations 2025
Friday 12 December from 19h to 21h
CRA’P space
Breathing the Mahabharata is a twelve-year oral storytelling project. A 21st-century narration, unfolding across multiple digital platforms, formats, and spaces.
Every December 12th, since 2016, a new form of telling is ritually premiered. In this tenth year, the proposal is an open narration, adapting itself to the audience’s questions. The storyteller does not define the direction; the guide is the personal interest of each participant. Each voice becomes a center, and all centers recognize themselves within the context of the Mahabharata, a unique tale in the world that dives into the understanding of the cosmic program.
We call this fractal storytelling: when the present unfolds petal by petal, like a lotus flower made of light and shadow.
Contribution 12€
Limited audience, early booking:
info@cra-p.org / 666763504
Michael Gadish is an oral storyteller, cultural researcher, and creator of stage projects that explore the transformative power of myths. For the past two decades, he has been working at the crossroads of philosophy, the spoken word, and live art.
His central project is Breathing the Mahabharata, a twelve-year journey (2016–2028) in which every December he offers a new telling of the great Indian epic, accompanied by reflections, publications, and collective experiences. This long-term commitment turns the story into a shared river, one that grows with time and allows audiences to recognize themselves in essential questions: war and peace, love and justice, fragility and hope.
He has collaborated with contemporary theatre and dance projects and leads workshops and lectures that combine symbolic storytelling, critical thought, and an exploration of lived experience. His work proposes an encounter between the ancestral and the contemporary, the sacred and the everyday, inviting us to rediscover the spoken word as a common space where we can imagine new ways of being in the world together.