Sunday, March 15, 2009

Defining a Theatrical Community

How do you define Community?

Imagine a body...

Leonardo's Vitruvian Man

Let's use Leonardo's Vitruvian Man as our example of a whole and complete body. All of the individual parts of this body are essential in describing a whole and complete body. If one of these elements are missing or injured, then the body is no longer whole nor complete.

A beautiful thing about our bodies is that when any part of the body is in danger, the whole body comes to its aid regardless of whether or not this will injure another part of the body. The bodies devotion to its elements is without fail.

This is how I imagine a community. Could it exist without being whole and complete? Yes. Could it function through illness and injuries? Yes. But regardless of its ability to overcome, the incomplete or injured body will always seek to be whole, complete, and well. It is my dream that our theatrical community will function as our bodies function...with devotion to its elements without fail!

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