ECHOES OF KURUKSHETRA
A narrative game

CRA’P Presentations 2025

Saturday 11 January from 17h to 21h
CRA’P space

Echoes of Kurukshetra is a storytelling proposal inspired by the Mahabharata, the great philosophical and ritual epic of India, which transcends conventional stylistic categories. This event is part of Respirar el Mahabharata, a living installation, vow, or 12-year performance in which Michael Gadish commits to studying and “breathing” the Mahabharata. Each December 12, from 2016 to 2027, he publicly shares his process through a unique storytelling event based on this monumental work. Echoes of Kurukshetra is the ninth chapter of this journey.

More information: www.respirarelmahabharata.com

Contribution 12€.
Limited audience, early booking:
info@cra-p.org / 666763504

Michael Gadish. Since 2014 has been dedicated to the oral storytelling of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, two of India’s great ritual narratives.

With a background in Hebrew philology, identity studies, and Sanskrit, he has explored the apparent distance between words and life. For him, all discourse—whether personal or historical—is an interpretation of some dimension of elusive reality. He believes it is impossible to lie or invent something that does not exist: when we say something different from what we think, we try to manipulate our environment, but at the same time, we are manipulated by circumstances. This enigma of reality led him to focus on the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, works that challenge the dominance of objective language without destroying it, offering a renewed way of storytelling.

Michael views reading as a path of transformation rather than merely an accumulation of knowledge. He has integrated oral storytelling with elements of the performing arts, influenced by figures such as María Stoyanova, Toni Cots, his father Peter Gadish, and his ongoing collaboration with Gisele Cornejo. His interdisciplinary approach avoids rigid definitions and draws from diverse artistic practices.

His performances are unique acts of narrative improvisation, presented in performance festivals, cafés, yoga studios, theaters, university classrooms, forests, open fields, and electronic formats.
Since 2016, he has been developing Respirar el Mahabharata, a living installation and 12-year commitment (2016–2027). Through this project, Michael aims to narrate the Mahabharata while sharing his personal transformation process with the public.

ore information: www.respirarelmahabharata.com