Claresis Collective is the artistic and pedagogical core of Claresis.

It stands within a lineage of practice that understands theatre as an embodied, energetic, and relational process. This lineage extends from Konstantin Stanislavski’s active analysis, in which action emerges from lived circumstance rather than representation; through Jerzy Grotowski’s and Eugenio Barba’s work on energy, presence, and the performer’s capacity to organise intensity; and Phillip Zarrilli’s integration of psychophysical and contemplative training as repeatable disciplines of attention.

Within Collective, this practical lineage is read through contemporary understandings of affect, space, and field. Drawing on Brian Massumi’s articulation of affect as pre-representational intensity and incipient action, and Madis Kõiv’s conception of field–space dependency, space is understood as never neutral or empty. It is always charged, relational, and dynamically poised — a field continuously ready for action to emerge before it becomes intentional or visible.

Within this charged field, theatre-making, training, and research are not separate activities but interdependent modes of work. Knowledge arises through rehearsal, practice, and shared presence — through attention to how bodies, affects, and spatial relations organise themselves prior to meaning being fixed.

Authority within Claresis Collective is situational and field-led. Methods evolve through doing, reflection, and sustained collaboration. The aim is not the reproduction of styles or techniques, but the cultivation of practitioners capable of perceiving, holding, and acting within complex affective and spatial systems.