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About Unknown Origin

“An endless horizon

Two bodies on their way towards it

Endlessly

This is about not having a place

About never being allowed to finish

To stop To rest”

In a world on the move as never before – flights and travels – Unknown Origin explores moments of movement, arrivals and departures, and attempts to bring journeys to their end. Who is left behind by these travels? Who expected?

Unknown Origin is the latest stage in a process of collaboration and research between Theater ASOU’s Klaus Seewald (Austria) and Martin Welton (UK) which explores movement into, through and out of space as a matter of feeling – sensation, emotion and expression. This collaboration is formed around a long-term engagement with Phillip Zarrilli’s paradigm of performance training. It draws on traditional practices of Asian martial and meditation arts to develop a psychophysically aware performer.

“ ... dreams of abandoned customs houses, of soldiers in depopulated, rain−soaked

settings, of women in kerchiefs, carrying string bags ...”

About Theater ASOU

Theater ASOU is based in Graz, Austria. In the company’s ensuing attempts to realize their own theatre, they had invited a variety of teachers/directors/writers from various backgrounds to teach and collaborate with them in workshops and/or through creating performances and theatre projects

Since 1994, Theater ASOU have successfully presenting their work in Austria as well as abroad in Venezuela, Columbia, Costa Rica, Germany, Hungary, Romania, Poland and Japan.