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About KiM

KiM is a platform/ playground/ meeting point/ ever-growing net, instances of training, investigation and creation for performance in theater-dance. Elias Cohen, Se-Rok Park and others have been and still are searching and investigating through our theatre-dance performances, site-specific events, video art pieces, our teaching instances how to create connections and shared moments with the performer and the spectator by throwing ourselves on the floor (in many diverse ways), burying ourselves under millions of paper sheets, dancing with fish and seaweed, rolling heavy stones and crawling in the dust of desolated factories, jumping on rocks, zazen in 4000 m heights and many more, as well as bending time, space and sound, our bodies and minds to always return to develop and deepen the practice of theatre- dance. We do that consciously in natural and urban environments, always being in touch as well as listening and responding to our bodies in relation to our social, cultural, political, natural/ urban surroundings.

The Kosmos of KiM derives from the Greeks who coined the term Kosmos (with capital K) referring to the totality of existence, which is comprised of the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual realms and not only its physical dimension. The KiM Platform and its performance ensemble essentially aims to giving space to discover all those dimensions. To see the body as Kosmos that commits to the path of deep human understanding in correlation to poetical creativity.

Se-Rok Park

Se-Rok Park is a Berlin-born Korean Performer/ Sound Artist/ Composer and Sound Researcher currently based in Tāmaki Makaurau AKL who came to Aotearoa in 2019 from Chile where she had resided and worked for eight years.

Received her MA in Acting from Central School, London after studies in classical singing (Berlin), Korean traditional singing (Seoul) and an apprenticeship in the Grotowski method.

She was co-director of the KIM Performance Platform in Berlin (2009-2012) and Latin America and co-directed the KiM Post School in Chile after having emigrated to Chile in 2012. Se-Rok has performed and composed original soundtracks for theatre- dance productions with tours mainly in Chile as well as Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil and Berlin in the past decade. Since her arrival to Aotearoa in 2019, initially in Kirikiriroa, she created two original soundtracks partly with live feed for dance productions at the Te Whare Wananga o Waikato and Hamilton Gardens and has collaborated as a sound artist in Indak Kanikani, a performance ritual for trans- indigenous, at Never Space, Kirikiriroa, 2020.

As a Tauiwi she resonates with Te Ao Māori principles connecting them with Asian and South American indigenous ways of knowledge and perception. Her current research on oro looks into the relationality between environment/ space, object and body/voice with its unfolding creations of pluriverse, and the shift of perceptions as its consequence. 

Essential Vision

Our methodology is, at the same time, a ” way of life” or Tao (Way) that includes nutrition (we are what we eat) and meditation (passive and active styles) with the objective to sharpen our perception about ourselves and the reality that we are part of.

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History

It all started in the heights of the Andes in Titicaca Lake in 2007 where the first working space came to life, no more than, with natural Adobe, a straw roof and 2 windows with the view to one of the biggest lakes and the Andes in more than 4000m heights. [Read more…] about History

Elias Cohen

Portrait of Elias Cohen

Elias Cohen (Chile, 1973): Theatre Director, Choreographer, Pedagogue, meditator and Interdisciplinary Researcher with a strong base within the Embodied Cognition Theory, Movement Justice for Social Transformation and Transpersonal Psychology. Tireless researcher on issues of interculturality and social welfare applied to people’s daily lives and active collaborator in interdisciplinary teams that seek creativity and inclusion in their perspectives. Director and founder of KiM Theatre & Dance Platform since 2006 (Chile, Bolivia, Germany). His stage works have been presented in South America, Europe and Asia, covering theatre, dance, ethnographic performance, physical theater, site specific, rural theatre and contemporary circus.  

 As a teacher has created methodologies on integrated theory and practices of performing arts with other sources of knowledge (Eco Phenomenology, Neurosciences and Ethnography). Director of the “Post School of Visual Theater-Dance” program at TanzFabrik, Berlin (Germany) between 2009 and 2012. During 2017-18 was guiding the research “Enactive Presence” based on embodied cognition practices for Performers as Researchers (funded by Finis Terra University, Chile). Currently, Elias is living in Aotearoa New Zeland with his family.

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