Cabaret Rhizome

Cabaret Rhizome is an independent theatre group and also a performance venue founded in 2009 by a group of actors and choreographers educated in Tartu University Viljandi Culture Academy. During its first years of development Cabaret Rhizome mainly focused on plays without words, inspired greatly by the aesthetic disciplines of dadaism, surrealism and absurd in mixture with themes of childish thought patterns and naivety. The "silence" became a sort of a method and certainly the strongest characteristic of the group. Today Cabaret Rhizome has chosen rather not to fix a certain performative way to go. Like Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari use the term "rhizome" and "rhizomatic" to describe theory and research that allows for multiple, non-hierarchical entry and exit points in data representation and interpretation, Carabet Rhizome is looking for anything that could pass as something that works as a work of art of any social or spiritual value. Since 2009 Cabaret Rhizome has premiered 15 productions, most of them directed by the group leader Johannes Veski.