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AKR stands for αχορoς, a Greek word which appears the first time in Aeschylus’s Prometheus. Literally it means "maverick", but in Aeschylus’s tragedy it was translated as "singing without dancing" or "singing of war".
AKR is a pool of intentions. It is a group organized in a non-hierarchical structurewhich encourages meeting and direct contact. Its aim is the production of music,theatrical pieces and videos.Day-after-day, AKR learns and becomes an independent and disaffected cauldron of collaboration, open to contamination.
AKR finds in its internal diversities the stimulus to work together, to resist to the pollution in the air around us and to move forward in the delirium of signs that accompanies us, like a badly disciplined army which is absolutely prone to desertion.
Music is what gave AKR its life. AKR produces records, soundtracks for short movies and theatrical performances, features improvisation sessions and electroacoustic live.
The passion for Video comes directly from its possible uses in performing arts. Their goal is the sensation, the violence for the eyes, the shake in the stomach, the vibration of sound. We exploit videos in various ways especially in performances and, usually, live.
The Theatre is the point of intersection between our different projects. The source of its way of being is the will of giving theatre a meaning that is beyond the hierarchical mechanisms imposed by the culture industry. We bring our theater in all places where it is needed, travelling from city to city weaving relationships and delivering content. The various components of our theatrical events are not arranged in a hierarchy: they co-operate to form the shape of our theater. The need to abolish the predominance of the text – at least of the narrative one – gives to the overall composition images, pictures and ideas whose role is, once again, to mitigate the predominance of the word on other components. Our creative process is a collective one, we build our work through discussions and improvisations in which musicians, actors, technicians, video
artists and authors have equal weight.
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