The
human interaction has taken thousands of years to develop. The very first
humans used gestures and sounds to communicate. Since our early attempts to
pass messages to each other, there has been some progress. Now, we take one or
two straight lines, we add a curved one as well and we construct those smudges
we name letters. Then we take those tiny smudges, we glue them together and we create
words, many words next to each other create sentences and sentences create
meanings, abstract notions and thus we communicate. Forms, shapes and colours
are projected into our minds. The most magic of them all is that those
sequences of random lines and curves make us feel!
And
then we invented literature: the art of narrating stories. The art of putting
those scribbles in the optimum order and through the eyes transmitting
pictures, sounds, smells and even emotions. We perfected that when the first
poem was written.
Nature
liked what we were doing and she – yes, she, of course nature is a woman,
what’s more beautiful than nature? - gave us the sounds, which we took and we
made music. We dressed it with the harmony of wisely chosen words and we
produced songs. Oh that touched some nerves! But no! We were not satisfied, no
no no, that was not enough. Literature and poetry, lyrics and music were not
enough for our greedy ancestors, we wanted more.
So
we started moving to those songs. We used the most basic element we had: our
body. And this time dancing was formed. And we put the smudges in the correct
order, and we coordinated our limbs and torsos to those frequencies and we were
happy… or that’s what we thought.
Remember
when I told you that humans are greedy and never satisfied? Well, you can guess
or better you already know what happened. Literature and poetry, lyrics and
music and dancing were not enough. Then it happened; we reached the pinnacle –
we invented the theatre! All that knowledge we accumulated by playing with the
words, all the emotions we felt writing and listening to songs, all the physical
pain and exhaustion we experienced during our dances, were put together to
bring us the theatre!
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