A Creative Hybrid Journey! - Theatre in Palm

Katerina’s Insights from the Hybrid Residency by CUBE.

I was from the lucky ones to participate in the Hybrid Residency, organized by Theatre in Palm,
together with other 120 international artists. For me, it was a total unique and thrilling experience.
To begin with, the structure of the residency itself – to work in our home country, leaving behind
material for the other artists, and taking material with us to use in the host country- apart from
being an original and innovative idea, it was also a fundamental tool for me, regarding the creative
process, that helped me to expand my imagination, and to make a strong creative connection with
the other two countries of my trio.
All the creative steps of building the narrative of the performance, stemming from the strong
cooperation of my team, was my best part of the residency, and I consider it, as a stepping stone
for my future artistic path.

Focusing in the procedure, what I really enjoyed during the rehearsals, starting from scratch, was
how the “round table” exchange of ideas, leaded to choices, rejections, problems, impasses,
practices, attempts, actions, and finally, to the birth of our performance. Our team developed a
collective trust, coming from every single artist for a common target. This atmosphere of mutual
trust and respect from people of different cultures and artistic fields, really moved me and incited
me to give my best collaborative self.

Furthermore, I want to highlight the key role of our two mentors in both the two countries, who were always there to support, guide and unblock us. Despite the little available time for the realization of the performance, I feel that we reached an exceptional level of creative work. The real time, online performance, was also a great challenge for me as an artist, how to approach it and to explore all these new fields and potentials of digital performing arts, that filled me with inspiration and eagerness to seek for new perceptive regarding the concept of performance.

Thus, during these two full of creativity weeks and beautiful collaborations, I broadened my artistic
horizons and connected to wonderful, passionate and talented artists! The Hybrid Residency was
an artistic stimulus for me and exceeded even my highest expectations.

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