SECOND PORTAL: SURRENDER
General rehearsal
CRA’P Presentations 2023
Sunday 3 December at 16:00
CRA’P space
The Mahābhārata is a more than seven thousand pages long story about the transcendental human condition. Respirar el Mahabharata (To breathe the Mahabharata) is the vow to narrate the Mahabharata between 2016 and 2028, releasing each 12th of December an actualized format of the presentation.
The approach of this eighth year of the vow is a four hour long telling that reviews the complete argument of the Mahabharata, with attention to the public’s pulse in order to focus on one or other aspect of the oeuvre according to demand.
The eighth year of Respirar el Mahabharata is the year of surrender, leaving the world to manifest what it has to manifest. «Rather than an accumulation of what has been lived and learned until here since 2016 it is about renouncing myself in order to let the world talk, in the language of the Mahabharata». The argument of the Mahabharata is the agora in which our gaze meet, our breath, silences, feelings, emotions, dreams, sorrows and wonders.
Artistic credits:
Creation, interpretation, dramaturgy and text: Traditional, Vedavyasa, Michael Gadish in collaboration with Toni Cots.
Production: La Estrella de la devoción
Free entrance. Limited audience, early booking:
info@cra-p.org / 666763504
Michael Gadish, he grew up between Tel Aviv, Barcelona and Amsterdam. That has always impelled him to search for bridges among cultures and research what makes us human. His main interest since childhood has been the origin of language and how we humans learned to talk in the first place. He graduated from Hebrew language and culture at the Universiteit van Amsterdam and in 2008 travelled back to Barcelona and followed the MA course on Construction and Representation of Cultural Identities (Universitat de Barcelona). On those same years he followed a three year Sanskrit course at the Universidad de Barcelona hoping to understand better the origins of language.
When reading in the original Sanskrit the epic called Ramayana Michael Gadish found the blend of poetry, metaphysics and philosophy that he felt he has been always looking for. As if the traditional Sanskrit stories where aware of the limits of each of our brains hemisphere and found a way to write for both of them at the same time. That compelled him to share that cultural treasure but the characteristics of this stories made him realize soon that regular lectures weren’t enough and around 2012 he worked with director Maria Stoyanova to create a presentation format that merges storytelling with academic lecture and time specific performance art. Since 2014 he has dedicated himself to the telling of traditional stories from India (Purana and Itihasa) looking for a universal and poetic approach to the philosophical content of these tales. He collaborates in Yoga and symbology courses and organizes oral storytelling performances regularly, Between 2016 and 2028 he is following the vow to narrate the vast Sanskrit epic called Mahabharata in 12 years, guided by Toni Cots. (respirarelmahabharata.com). In 2018 he was ordained as a Buddhist monk in the Soto Zen line, by Zen master Lluís Nansen.
