@CPR | Marija Krtolica: Parrhesia

Parrhesia is not a skill; it is something which is harder to define. It is a stance, a way of being which is akin to virtue, a mode of action.
– Foucault
Parrhesia: The Courage of Truth in Five Scenes — with psychoanalytic insights in the margins is a dance-theatre work which takes as its point of departure Michel Foucault’s lectures The Courage of Truth (1983/84) and the concept of parrhesia – saying, expressing everything, and telling the truth to power. The work engages the relationship between first, the silent action and speech; second, deliberate creation of spectacle (representation), and unconscious (repressed) expression.

The scenes revolve around five truth procedures: socratic wisdom, cynic’s homeless existence, labor protests, revolutionary consciousness, and art/criticism.
Choreographic concept in collaboration with the performers: Marija Krtolica
Performed by: Jason Ciaccio, Theresa Duhon, Julie Fotheringham, Emilee Lord, Alessandro Magania, and Despina Sophia Stamos
Videography: Charles Dennis
Textual sources: Foucault, Marx, Freud, Badiou, Didi-Huberman, and Peggy Phelan

Host or Publisher CPR- Center for Performance Research