performed by Elke Luyten
directed by Kira Alker
text: excerpts from The Nerve Meter by Antonin Artaud
music: The Unanswered Question by Charles Ives

Here is Someone is a solo Corporeal Mime performance that integrates richly detailed movement scores with text from Antonin Artaud and music by Charles Ives. The actor reveals Artaud's profound inner conflict by embodying a dramatic struggle in movement.

Corporeal Mime is the only codified theatre form that exists in the western theatre. For this reason, a performance of Corporeal Mime will look different than any other performance today. With a specific and unique vocabulary for the articulation of the body, the Corporeal Mime actor strives to embody thought. Singing the movements of the soul with the muscles of the body, the actor reveals a profound and universal inner conflict. Nonetheless, the drama expressed in Corporeal Mime is decidedly non-situational and nonlinear: there is no plot, no sequence of events and no character portrayed. Thoroughly modern, reactionary and revolutionary, the actor succeeds the playwright in this new form of theatre.