The Grotowski Institute, calendar

The Grotowski Institute is a city-funded cultural institution that runs artistic and research projects responding to the challenges laid down by the creative practice of Jerzy Grotowski as well as documenting and spreading knowledge about his achievements. Director: Jarosław Fret Deputy Director, Programming: Monika BligeRynek-Ratusz 27, 50-101 Wrocław, Poland Tel./Fax + 48 71 34 34 267, Tel. + 48 71 34 45 [email protected]

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ON THE COVER: FRAGMENT OF HAITAN MURAL POTO MITAN. HOMMAGE À JERZY GROTOWSKI, 2009; AUTHORS: PIERRE SYLVAIN AUGUSTIN „PAYAS”, LIONEL PAUL „ONEL”, DENIS SMITH, ST-JEAN ST-JUSTE, PELAZIE JEANNOT, PRZEJŚCIE ŻELAŹNICZE, WROCŁAW; PHOTO BY FRANCESCO GALLI

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Events presented by THE GROTOWSKI INSTITUTE are an important part of the theatre programme of the European Capital of Culture Wrocław 2016. They include both the ongoing projects and programmes launched in 2010, such as the Open University of Research and VoicEncounters, and new ones, created specifically for ECC Wrocław 2016: the Alternative Theatre Academy and More than Theatre, which includes a semester, a practical seminar and performances.

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BODYCONStitUTION | Practical seminar | April 2016

THE PROJECT IS SUPPORTED BY A GRANT FROM ICELAND, LIECHTENSTEIN AND NORWAY, FROM THE EEA GRANTS, AND CO-FINANCED FROM POLISH FOUNDS.

The practical seminar is a part of the project ‘BodyConstitution: Intercultural dialogue on actor training – a series of work sessions, academies and seminars with drama schools students from Poland and Norway’ undertaken as part of the programme ‘Promotion of Diversity in Culture and Arts within European Cultural Heritage as part of the EEA FM 2009–2014’.

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bEYOND bORDERS | Polish-Iranian educational and artistic project for young people aged 14–18 | January–November 2016IRANIAN PARTNERS UNDER THE AUSPICES OFCO-ORGANISED BY

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FEELING THE PULSE | STUDIO || ROSA’s exploratory theatre undertaking | January–February 2016

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Artistic residency at the Grotowski Institute

ALTERNATIVE THEATRE ACADEMY | September 2015 – March 2017STRATEGIC PARTNER

INSENSO | Performance by Alexandra Kazazou | January 2016Created as part of Mercouri/Xenakis, a project of the Avant Art Foundation completed for the Opening Weekend of the European Capital of Culture Wrocław 2016

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MORE THAN THEATRE | December 2015 – November 2016As part of the practical conference ‘Fully Able Art of the Disabled + Beyond Therapy’

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KARTOTEKA rOZrZUCONA (The Card Index Scattered) | October 2016

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STREET THEATRE | Festival | August 2016

VOICENCOUNTERS | Practical seminar; VOICE PEDAGOGY conference’| April 2016

MAKING TOmOrrOW'S THEATRE | International Meetings of Theatre Schools | July 2016

HERO_ISMS | Artistic residency of MITOS group | September 2016ORGANISED BY The project is run in collaboration with

the European Capital of Culture Pafos 2017.

THE WORLD AS A PLACE OF TRUTH Theatre Olimpics | October–November 2016Odin Teatret Residency, Lower Silesia Theatre Platform, Dziady Recycling Festival

UNFINISHED PALACE, MOVING PEOPLE, FLOATING BORDErS / european songlines | Multimedia performance | August–September 2016

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is a platform for the free exchange of knowledge and experience for exponents of various schools, perspectives and methodologies, offering novel approaches and engaging issues absent from or inadequately addressed in existing curricula. This year’s core course offers a series of open lectures and seminars with a focus on twentieth- century theatre art and on how theatre practitioners pushed its boundaries and expanded their practice by engaging with other arts. programmed by Dr Piotr Olkusz

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14 January – 1 February | WANDERING ToWArDS...’Jerzy Grotowski as Seen by Jan Krzysztof Fiołekthe exhibition features photos taken by Jan Krzysztof Fiołek between 1979 and 1981 in Poland and Italy, documenting the life and work of Jerzy Grotowski and his Laboratory Theatre. The photos, which have never been seen in public, trace the unique story of the great Wrocław artist who in the mid-twentieth century transformed world theatre.

15–16 January | SESSION 2THEATRE OF MUSICALITYDr Anna Burzyńska (Jagiellonian University)open lecture Forms of Musicalityseminar Silence and Sound

15–16 January | INSENSO performance by Alexandra Kazazou Director: Petros Sevastikoglou Text: Dimitris Dimitriadis The piece is dedicated to Melina Mercouri, Greek actress and originator of the European Capital of Culture.

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Session of International Platform for Performer Training Wrocław 2016

During the Wrocław session of IPPT we would like to put into critical consideration the topic of tradition. It often works as a mandate of trust for rising artists but at the same time it is used as a means to discredit others. Whether it is considered a valuable heritage or an old-fashioned mannerism it can serve as an easy label both in performing and teaching. We are guided by the conviction that we train not to preserve tradition, but rather in order to create valuable art and educate outstanding performers. During the Wrocław meeting we will discuss real current situations and modes of operation in training and transmitting (or maybe overcoming) tradition. www.performertrainingplatform.

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(ATA) is a project of all-round, interdisciplinary, informal theatre education which aims to raise the organisational, artistic and culture-building skills of alternative theatre leaders, strengthen their motivation to work for the benefit of local communities and provide practical tools and skills related to ensemble work methods.

18 monthly sessions will take place from September 2015 to March 2017 at the Grotowski Institute in Wrocław, the Kana Theatrical Centre in Szczecin or Teatr Brama in Goleniów. The ATA programme will feature training sessions, theatre and vocal workshops, practical training, discussions, film screenings, lectures, as well as work presentations and performances. curators Monika Blige, Jarosław Fret, Daniel Jacewicz, Dariusz Mikuła, Marta Poniatowska

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20–24 January, Goleniów | ALTERNATIVE THEATRE ACADEMYsession 5 The Force of Nature and DisciplineLeaders: Piotr Borowski and Studium Teatralne, Marek Kościółek and Teatr Krzyk

26 January – 24 February | FEELING THE PULSEStudio || ROSA exploratory theatre undertaking as part of the company’s residency

27–30 January | CAESAREAN SECTION: Essays on Suicideperformance by Teatr ZAR

28–31 January | PRACTISING TRADITIONIn PERFORMEr Training: A Critical Approachinternational conference of International Platform for Performer Training

29–30 JanuaryTAZM Silence of Lightperformance by Studio ROSA

20–24 January | KARAWANASUN Laboratory The School of Rena Mirecka


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26 January – 24 February | FEELING THE PULSEStudio || ROSA exploratory theatre undertaking as part of the company’s residency

4–7 February | Semester MORE THAN THEATREsession 1 In One VoiceThis practical session will create a space of encounter where partici-pants will try to reach a presence with themselves and others in space, without fear, in a space that theatre can create. Leaders: Anna Zubrzycki, Ula Grzela, Jana Pilátová

8–9 February | HEART Silence of Polygon premiere of Studio ROSA performance

19–20 February | SESSION 3THE MUSEUM STAGE: EXHIBITION MEDIA Prof dr hab. Tomasz Majewski (Jagiellonian University) open lecture The Museum as aStage for the Appearance of the ‘Other’seminar Intermedia and Machines: Museum Apparatus

10–14 February | ALTERNATIVE THEATRE ACADEMYsession 6 A Drop Leaders: Grzegorz Ziółkowski and Studio|| ROSA


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centres around the artistic and social issues related to elevating the social status of art created by people with disabilities (with a particular emphasis on theatre and performance). The planned events, which include a semester of workshops and lectures, a practical conference and theatre performances, are intended to promote artistic work that is often marginalised, bring together theatre practitioners and experts from various fields of art and learning, facilitate experience sharing between Polish and international artists, and open up space for in-depth reflection. curators Dr Magdalena Hasiuk, Justyna Sobczyk, Prof Jana Pilátová and Anna Zubrzycki

FEELing tHE PULSE Studio ||ROSA exploratory theatre undertaking as part of the company’s residency at the Grotowski Institute

The programme includes: TAZM Silence of Light and HEART Silence of Polygon, STUDIO || ROSA’s performances; Prof Dobrochna Ratajczakowa in conversation with Prof Grzegorz Ziółkowski about his books Dwugłos O CISZY (Duet ON SILENCE) (in Polish) and Texts FROM THE HEART (in English and in Polish); dialogue between Prof Paul Allain and Prof Grzegorz Ziółkowski on the actor craft and art; workshop led by Claudio Santana Bórquez; presentation of miniatures by Csongor Köllő, Andrea Madrid Mora and Mohammad Reza Aliakbari; performative lecture by Claudio Santana Bórquez.

‘MORE THAN THEATRE’ SEMINAR, DECEMBER 2015PHOTO BY TOBIASZ PAPUCZYS

‘MORE THAN THEATRE’ SEMINAR, DECEMBER 2015PHOTO BY TOBIASZ PAPUCZYS

Studio ROSA (Readiness, Openness, Sharing, Actor) is a space between people that serves long-term work on oneself and research into the relationship between actor training and theatre creation.

The work is focused on awareness and the harmonisation of breath, body and voice. At its heart is a quality of lightness, sought for in the flow of actions and dialogues with oneself, one’s environment, partner, group.


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14–18 March, New Horizons Cinema | bEYOND bORDErS: Cinematic Inspirations screenings of Iranian films preceded by talks by Iranian guests

17–20 March, Warsaw, Theatre Institute | MORE THAN THEATRE Semester |session 2 Aesthetics: In Search of One’s Own Language

11–12 March | SESSION 4tHE ANTHROPOCENE: PERFORMING The END, COUNTERING THE THREATS Dr hab. Agnieszka Jelewska (Adam Mickiewicz University) open lecture Scenographies of the Anthropocene: A Transdisciplinary Perspective on Anthropocene Researchseminar Post-Apocalypsis: Art in the Time of the Anthropocene

THE OPEN UNIVERSITY OF RESEARCH 2015 AUTHORIAL SEMESTER,

DR HAB. AGNIESZKA JELEWSKA: ‘LIVING IN A GLOBAL LABORATORY: ART

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19–23 March | KAR AWANSUN Laboratory The School of Rena Mirecka


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16–20 March, Goleniów, Szczecin | ALTERNATIVETHEATRE ACADEMYsession 7 The Eccentrics and the ManneristsLeaders: Zbigniew Szumski and Teatr Cinema, Dariusz Mikuła and Teatr Kana


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A joint initiative of Poland and Iran, Beyond Borders is an educational and artistic project for young people aged 14–18. The artistic part of the project centres around Polish and international cinema. Film becomes a ‘mirror of culture’, a tool to understand both the uniqueness of one’s country and generation and the differences and similarities of other cultures. www.beyondbordersfestival.org

in conversation with the founders of three Warsaw theatres: Agata Adamek and Zbigniew Gozdecki (Teatr Zgoda), Justyna Sobczyk (Teatr 21) and Katarzyna Wińska (Teatr Opera Buffa). All have extensive experience running theatre companies. Each embraces a different set of work methods and a different aesthetic. What are their inspirations? What ideas and artists do they draw on in their work? How this ‘source material’ is transformed into performances?

TEATR CINEMA, REVUE OF FIREPHOTO BY MARCIN OLIVA SOTO

TEATR KANA, LAILONIAPHOTO BY KAROLINA MACHOWICZ

KARAWANASUN LABORATORY The School of Rena Mirecka

A disciplined practice of certain exercises and of concentration determines the right condition which, by vibrating, attracts the inspirations, knowledge and meetings you need, opening up a new dimension of consciousness, unblocking and opening the heart. RENA MIRECKA

KARAWANASUN Laboratory The School of Rena Mirecka organises laboratory sessions as well as individual paratheatre and theatre practice. It works under the auspices of the Grotowski Institute. www.renamirecka.grotcenter.art.pl

19–23 March | KAR AWANSUN Laboratory The School of Rena Mirecka


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is a programme of research in practice run at the Grotowski Institute to analyze in practice various physical traditions and to incorporate their principles into performer training.

BodyConstitution is a platform for conscious, consistent and responsible work on the body through the creation of a ‘lexicon’ of analysis and description of movement techniques and practices. It combines action and reflection to build a deep body culture. www.bodyconstitution.art.pl


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BODYCONSTITUTION 2015, WORK DEMONSTRATION

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BODYCONSTITUTION 2014, TRAINING WITH PIOTR MASZTALERZPHOTO BY CZESŁAW JANA

4 April – 27 May | bEYOND bORDErS: Creative Spacea series of workshops for young people interested in film, photography, visual arts, music and literature.

1–2 April | SESSION 5 THE PErFOrMEr: THE fuLfiLmENT AND TrANSCENDENCE OF THE HUMAN CONDITION Prof Dariusz Kosiński (Jagiellonian University) open lecture Pilgrim – Fulfiller – Performer / seminar Emaus cum figuris

2–14 April, Ostrów Wielkopolski | Semester MORE THAN THEATRE session 3 A Theatre with a Personal Focus | Programmed by dr Anita Stefańska, the primary focus of this session will be to prompt reflection on theatre therapy as a process with a focus on the artist. The session will accompany MASKA, the 15th Survey of Theatre Forms by People with Disabilities. It will comprise performances, lectures, discussions and workshops. Leaders will include Eugeniusz Józefowski, Tomek Kuta, Ilona Mendykowska, Magda Kajewska and Anita Stefańska.

14–24 April | Practical seminar workshops, concerts, panel discussions • ‘Latin Meditterraneas’ (14–17 April) male confraternities: Confraternita de a Serra, Corsica; Cuncordu de Cuglieri

5–10 April | Practical seminarworkshops and work demonstrations with acclaimed artists and masters of movement techniques who come from diverse bodywork traditions, including Miyamoto Sensei (aikido), Sathyanarayanan G. Nair (kalarippayattu), Mestre Cobra Mansa (capoeira), Richard Shusterman (somesthetics), Laurent Piemontesi (parcour), Daisuke Yoshimoto and the group of Tomoe Shizune & Hakutobo (butoh), Savvas Stroumpos (method of Theodoros Terzopoulos), Yves Leberton and Jozef Frucek. The events will also include BodyPedia, a series of panel discussions with martial arts masters, actors, dancers, edu-cators and physiotherapists, which will lay the groundwork for a glossary of practice- -based definitions of terms describing the use of the body in performative contexts. The seminar will be accompanied by two photography exhibits: one devoted to kala-rippayattu, the other documenting the BodyConstitution programme in 2013–2015. A detailed programme of events will be available from 15 February 2016.


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The aim of VoicEncounters is to provide a space in which the multifaceted components surrounding music can be brought together under one roof. The seed and the spine for each encounter is music, but what is touched on and engaged with will not only be the music. Each encounter will aim to recall the microcosm of the world surrounding music from the particular theme and will be tailored to the needs of that subject.

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and Cuncordu de Orosei, Sardinia; Lamentatori di Mussomeli, Sicily, and In Medias Res, Schola Gregoriana Silesiensis •• ‘My Voice is My Country’ (21–24 April): female tra-ditions represented by such singers as sisters Mahsa and Marjan Vahdat (Iran), Natalya Polovynka (Ukraine), Mariana Sadovska (Ukraine) and Selda Öztürk (Turkey) ••• ‘Traces’ (21–24 April): musicians from Georgia (Nanila group of the Pilpani family and Sakhioba choir) and Turkey (singers from St Trinity Church in Istanbul).guest performers The Programme will also include concerts by Fátima Miranda/Marc Egei (Spain) and Chan E. Park (Korea/USA), and a lecture by Diamanda Galás (Greece/USA). The seminar will also feature a conference, ‘Voice Pedagogy’ (18–21 April), attended by noted experts such as Rhonda Blair, Kristen Linklater, Tara McAllister-Viel, Joan Mills, Olga Szwajgier. A detailed programme of events will be available from 22 February 2016.

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20–24 April | ALTERNATIvEThEatre ACADEMYsession 8 The Magic of Words and ImagesLeaders: Janusz Opryński (Teatr Provisorium) and Jolanta Krukowska (Akademia Ruchu)

Participants will propose and carry out projects inspired by the Iranian films they watched in March.


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TEATR 21, DEADLY DIFFICULT GAME

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19 May – 1 June | MORE THAN THEATRE Practical seminarmasterclasses with actors, directors, therapists and creators of original body, voice and sound work methods and with experts in economics, promotion and leader training, aimed at actors and non-actors, so-called able and disabled people and at carers looking after the disabled. Guests will include Martin Heřman Frys, William Longden, Zoja Mikotová, Natalia Popowa, Jana Pilátová, Petra Osvaldová and Anna Zubrzycki. The practical conference will also include work demonstrations, performances and a concert by Na Górze z Rzadkowa ensemble.

25–29 May | ALTERNATIvE ThEatre AcadEMYsession 9 Ambiguous, Cynical and SeriousLeaders: Arti Grabowski, Teatr Porywacze Ciał

27–28 May | SESSION 6 THE TRAP OF CHILDHOOD: MEMORYŁukasz Drewniak (teatralny.pl)open lecture ME in a Performance Work / seminar Theatre and the First World THE OPEN UNIVERSITY

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17–18 June | SESSION 7 ENGAGEMENT BEYOND THE THEATREDr Joanna Krakowska (Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences)open lecture Politics in the Theatre: Evolution | seminar Engagements Beyond Theatre

10–12 June, New Horizons Cinema | bEYOND bOrDErS: Iranian Film Festival | A film festival open to the public, combined with a demonstration of results of the artistic workshops held in April and May www.beyondbordersfestival.org

THOMAS RICHARDS, ‘GROTOWSKI – NARRATIONS’ CONFERENCE, WARSAW 2010

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14–19 June | Residency of the WORKCENTEr OF JERZY GROTOWSKI AND THOMAS RICHARDSThe residency will include performances of The Living Room (16–18 June) and Thirty Years of the Workcenter: A Retrospective, a conference with Grotowski’s artistic heir Thomas Richards.

TEATR DADA VON BZDÜLÖW, THE DUETSPHOTO BY JAKUB WITTCHEN

15–19 June, Szczecin | ALTERNATIvE ThEatrE AcadEMYsession 10 Dance, Theatre, DocumentLeaders: Leszek Bzdyl and Teatr Dada von Bzdülöw, Janek Turkowski and Weronika Fibich (Kana Theatrical Centre)


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23 June – 2 July | HErESIES Sineglossa residency | The Ankona-based ensemble Sineglossa and guest artists from Spain and the UK will explore the possibility of a socially heretic stance in today’s Europe, one that is different and anti-heroic. The residency will include a series of work demontrations and artistic interventions across Wrocław between 30 June and 2 July.

SINEGLOSSA, HERESY [WHITE]. PURITYPHOTO BY MONICA FAGIANI

JANEK TURKOWSKI, MARGARETEPHOTO BY ALEKSANDER ŁAWRYWANIEC

WORKCENTER OF JERZY GOTOWSKI AND THOMAS RICHARDS, THE LIVING ROOMPHOTO BY MATTIA PIRRONE

16–20 July | KAR AWANASUN LaboratoryThe School of Rena Mirecka

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MAKING TOMORROW'S THEATRE

is an international event bringing together teachers and students of drama, which builds on the Grotowski Institute’s many years of experience collaborating with international drama schools and institutes.

The first installment of the event hosted students from Rose Bruford College (London), Rasaboxes (New York) and PWST (Wrocław), with special guests Fay Lecoq of École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq (Paris) and Anatoly Vassiliev.

4–10 July | MAKING TOMORROW'S THEATREInternational Meetings of Drama Schools | A series of events bringing together drama school students and teachers from Wrocław, Madrid, London, Moscow, Athens, Sibiu and other European cities, with Ludwik Flaszen, Jorge Parente and Theodoros Terzopoulos as special guests. This biennial event for invitees from drama departments offers a platform for exchanging experiences and work methods through presentation of acting techniques and workshops with educators from invited schools. Other events will include film screenings, talks and theatre performances.

13–17 July, Strzelewo | ALTErNATIVETHEATRE ACADEMYsession 11 Rituals of Movement and SoundLeaders: Per Spidra Borg (Stella Polaris), Oleh Stefan, Anna Zubrzycki

MAKING TOMORROW’S THEATRE 2011PHOTO BY IRENA LIPIŃSKA

LUDWIK FLASZEN

THEODOROS TERZOPOULOS

JORGE PARENTE

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16–20 July | KAR AWANASUN LaboratoryThe School of Rena Mirecka

19–30 July | SUMMEr SCHOOl Of STUDIo KALARIworkshop of kalarippayattu and kuchipudi dance | Leaders: Sankar Lal Sivasankaran Nair (Studio Kalari) and Chitrangee Uppamah

is the first centre in Poland which aims to promote the South Indian martial art kalarippayattu. The activities of the Studio include running regular trainings and short workshops, organising lectures and meetings with teachers and with researchers and artists for whom martial arts are their subject of research or one of the inspirations for their creative work.Founded by Justyna Rodzińska-Nair and Sankar Lal Sivasankaran Nai, Studio Kalari has been working under the auspices of the Grotowski Institute since 2010. www.studiokalari.art.pl

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SUMMER SCHOOL OF STUDIO KALARI, 2012PHOTO BY IRENA LIPIŃSKA


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8 August – 4 September | bEYOND borDErS: Space of Imagination workshop | This workshop

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11–14 August | STREET THEATREthe festival presents socially engaged street theatre at its best, including the most interesting full-length productions exploring the most painful twists of European history.

TEATR BIURO PODRÓŻY, CARMEN FUNEBREPHOTO BY PRZEMEK KULCZYK

18–21 August, Kamieniec Ząbkowicki | AlTernative THEATRE PLATFORM session 13 Organised single-handedly by the participants of Alternative Theatre Academy, this festival presents the work of companies led by ATA participants, of invited guests and resi-dents of Kamieniec Ząbkowicki.

15–17 August, Kamieniec Ząbkowicki | AlTernativeTHEATRE ACADEMYsession 12 Workshops led by ATA participants with Kamieniec Ząbkowicki’s inhabitants; festival preparations


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31 August – 17 September, Świebodzki Railway Station | UNFINISHED PALACE, MOVING PEOPLE, FLOATING BOrDErS / european songlines multimedia performance

26 August – 6 September | MINOTAUR Rupert Thomson and Eleven group artistic residency

The Minotaur will be a performance fusing fragments of fictional narrative, theoretical conjecture and intense physical and visual performance. The audiences will be taken on a journey from familiar surround-ings into a dark place of the imagination. There will be clues scattered throughout, but nothing to guide you all the way through (as the ball of string guides Theseus in the original myth).

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will culminate in a theatre production co-created and performed by young people from Poland and Iran.

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31 August – 17 September, Świebodzki Railway Station | UNFINISHED PALACE, MOVING PEOPLE, FLOATING bORDERS / european songlines multimedia performance

The Świebodzki Railway Station, a juncture of the arrivals and departures of the largest human migration in the past 200 years, will become a space for artistic interrogation of moving borders, origins of culture, human dreams and the European identity. At the heart of the project will be a performance called don’t be so sure that you are legal, staged on the station platforms and tracks. The performance will be complemented by exhibits, installations, concerts, film screenings and meet-the-author events. This spectacular document of the time will be created in collaboration with noted artists such as Zbigniew Libera, Olaf Brzeski, Marek Raczkowski, Bente Kahan, Olga Tokarczuk, Julia Marcell, Bastiaan Maris, Matthias Göritz and Teatr ZAR. artistic director Stephan Stroux

5–18 September | HERO_ISMS MITOS artistic residency

MITOS group (Cyprus) will stage a production of Aeschylus’s The Persians, in ancient Greek, based on a practical analysis of the tragedy’s chorus parts.The project is run in collaboration with the European Capital of Culture Pafos 2017.

12–16 September | KARAWANASUN Laboratory The School of Rena Mirecka

5 September – 2 October | Ubu roiopen work session of Regula contra Regulam Teatro, which will culminate in a performance Leaders: Raúl Iaiza and guest masters

14–18 September, Goleniów | ALTErNATIVETHEATrE ACADEMYsession 14 Object, PuppetLeaders: Marek Chodaczyński and Unia Teatr Niemożliwy, Marek Waszkiel


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23–24 September | SESSION 8 ORGANISATIONAL SESSION in the run-up to the Theatre Olympics, ‘The World as a Place of Truth’

TEATR ZAR, ANHELLI: THE CALLINGPHOTO BY IRENA LIPIŃSKA


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The Theatre Olympics is an international theatre festival presenting the work of the world’s greatest theatre practitioners, which aims to restitute the importance of contemporary theatre. The festival is the brain child of Greek director Theodoros Terzopoulos and Greek Minister of Culture Melina Mercouri (the originator of the idea of European Capital of Culture), who were among its founding committee members in 1993 in Delphi. The festival has had six editions, each with a different motto. The host cities included Delphi (1995, ‘Tragedy’), Shizuoka (1999, ‘Creating Hope’), Moscow (2001, ‘Theatre for the People’), Istanbul (2006, ‘Beyond Borders’), Seoul (2010, ‘Sarang. Love and Humanity’) and Beijing (2014, ‘Dream’).

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8 –10 October | THE CARD INDEX SCATTERED | a series of artistic actions and interventions in the streets and squares of Wrocław, inspired by the work of Wrocław’s most acclaimed poet Tadeusz Różewicz. An attempt to meet the challenge posed by the Różewicz’s poetics of the fragment. www.kartotekarozrzucona.art.pl

Tadashi Suzuki/Suzuki Company of Toga (Japan), The Trojan Women

Krystian Lupa/Teatr Polski in Wrocław

14 October – 13 November | Theatre Olimpics THE WORLD AS A PLACE OF TRUTH

mAIN PrOGrAmME – performances directed by the world’sgreatest theatre practitioners: Eugenio Barba, Peter Brook, Romeo Castellucci, Jan Fabre, Valery Fokin, Heiner Goebbels, Krystian Lupa, Tadashi Suzuki, Theodoros Terzopoulos, Robert Wilson.

The Olympics is founded on the principle of openness to the tradition of the host location. The host has the opportunity to show-case local work in theatre and other performing arts. The Wrocław edition will be organised around the following programme lines:

DZIADY rECYCLING festival LOWER SILESIAN THEATRE PLATFORM EASTERN LINE performances MOrE THAN THEATRE performances GUESTS OF THE GrOTOwSKI INSTitutE

Valery Fokin/ Alexandrinsky Theatre (Russia), Recollection of the Future

Romeo Castellucci/Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio (Italy), Go Down, Moses

Eugenio Barba/Odin Teatret (Denmark), Flying

Heiner Goebbels/Stanislavsky Electrotheatre (Germany/Russia), Max Black or 62 Different Ways of Supporting the Head with an Elbow and a Hand

16–18 October | LOWEr SILESIAN THEATRE PLATFORM a festival of Wrocław and Lower Silesiantheatres. Over the span of three

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THE WORLD AS A PLACE OF THRUTH

The 7th Theatre Olympics will be held under the motto ‘The World as a Place of Truth’, a paraphrase of the title of a text by Jerzy Grotowski from 1979. The artists invited to present their work within the main programme of the Olympics have transformed 20th and 21st century theatre. Eugenio Barba, Peter Brook, Romeo Castellucci, Jan Fabre, Valery Fokin, Heiner Goebbels, Krystian Lupa, Tadashi Suzuki, Theodoros Terzopoulos and Robert Wilson will bring to Wrocław both acclaimed productions as well as premieres and co-productions created for the European Capital of Culture. Each day will be dedicated to one artist. In addition, there will be daily panel discussions, seminars, in-conversation events and film screenings.

The format of Theatre Olympics will be extended to include new themes focused around the idea of a gathering of the most noted artists of European theatre of the three generations of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, which will be addressed at an international conference called ‘Krajobraz/Landscape’, programmed by Prof Georges Banu, Prof Dariusz Kosiński and and Prof Maria Shevtsova, and the re-search symposium ‘European Theatre Perspectives’.

The festival will also include directing and educational fora, which will explore issues of India, China and Korea learning and tradition. The second forum will be a series of educational sessions with eminent Russian directors, who will lead a series of theoretical and practical sessions on the director’s work. Another forum will be dedicated to Odin Teatret tradition, the last one will focused on Theodoros Terzopoulos’s practise.

In 2016 Wrocław will become a European and global centre of multilayered, in-depth reflection on history, the present and the prospects for theatre art and dramaturgy. At the same time, the festival will creatively develop the idea of the University of Research of the Theatre of Nations, staged in 1975 by Jerzy Grotowski.

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THE AGE OF DIRECTORSseries of educational sessionswith eminent Russian directors: Lev Dodin, Anatoly Vassiliev and Valery Fokin, who will lead a se-ries of theoretical and practical sessions on the director’s work.

OdiN tEAtrET tRADITION ’ The 7th Theatre Olympics will see the premiere of Flying, new performance by Odin Teatret, co-produced by the Grotowski Institute. The programme will also include a concert by Parvati Baul, an installation by Stefano Di Buduo and a screening of a film by Davide Barletti and Jacop Quadri. The project is run in collaboration with the European Capital of Culture Aarhus 2017.

CulturE IS tHE bODythe educational forum ‘Culture is the Body’ featuring Tadashi Suzuki and educators from theatre schools in India, China and Korea, including Ratan Thiyam, Liu Libin and Choi Chy-Rim, who will explore issues of learning and tradition.

21–27 October | MORE THAN THEATrE performances | This pro-gramme line of the 7th Theatre Olympics will feature theatre performances by artists with disabilities. The programme will include performances by Compagnia Pippo Delbono (Italy), Monster Truck (Germany), VerTeDance (Czech Republic), Compagnie l’Oiseau-Mouche (France), Teatr 21, Teatr CHOREA, as well as meet-the-artist events.

25–27 October | KrAJObrAZ/LANDSCAPE conference programmed by Prof Georges Banu, Prof Dariusz Kosiński and Prof Maria Shevtsova

28 October – 4 November | DZIADY rECYCLING the festival, which delves into the roots of Polish theatre, will showcase productions of Adam Mickiewicz’s Forefathers’ Eve (Dziady) and remixes of the play’s historic revivals (from Grotowski and Białoszewski, to Dejmek and Swinarski, to Konwicki and Grzegorzewski). Ancestor worship rituals from Byelorussian Radonitsa to the Afro-American cults of Vodou and Candomblé, enacted live and mediated through Pierre Guicheney’s video-installation, will provide cultural context. In addition to performances and rituals, the festival will include discussions, concerts (Moniuszko and Mahler), film screenings (thrillers and zombie movies), exhibitions and publications. programming director Prof Leszek Kolankiewicz.

days all Wrocław stages will host scores of performances, a unique programme of ‘days and nights of theatre’ grouped around several programme lines.


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5 November | WITNESS/ACTION conference/intervention This conference/intervention explores a new model for performing arts in which artist and audience are in a dynamic relationship of actor/performer and spectator/witness. The conference takes a stand against the passivity of contemporary art and its dissociation from the grand challenges that transform our conscience.

7–8 November | EUrOPEAN THEATRE PErSPECTIVESinternational symposium for the analysis of new ways of engaging in intercultural dialogue, theatre and culture | www.culturehub.com

7 November – 13 November | EASTERN LINEtheatre performances Eastern Line is a showcase of young, indepen-dent theatre from Central and Eastern Europe, bringing together diverse theatrical languages and companies. The festival builds on the idea of ‘third theatre’, which is critical of both institutional theatre and the avant-gardes of the past. Eastern Line is intended to act as a bulwark against a culture focused on shallow spectacle.

Robert Wilson/Change Performing Arts (USA), Krapp’s Last Tape

Jan Fabre/Troubleyn Performing Arts (Belgium), Attends, Attends, Attends... (pour mon père)

Theodoros Terzopoulos/Attis Theatre (Greece), Amor and Prometheus Bound

Peter Brook/Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord (France), Battelfield

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THE TROJAN WOMEN, DIR. TADASHI SUZUKIPHOTO BY SUZUKI COMPANY OF TOGA ARCHIVE

GO DOWN, MOSES, DIR. ROMEO CASTELLUCCIPHOTO BY GUIDO MENCARI

RECOLLECTION OF THE FUTURE, DIR. VALERY FOKINPHOTO BY KATYA KRAVTSOVA

MAX BLACK, DIR. HEINER GOEBBELSPHOTO BY OLYMPIA ORLOVA

BATTLEFIELD, DIR. PETER BROOKPHOTO BY PASCAL VICTOR, Ar tComArt

KRAPP’S LAST TAPE, DIR. ROBERT WILSONPHOTO BY LUCIE JANSCH

ATTENDS, ATTENDS, ATTENDS..., DIR. JAN FABREPHOTO BY WONGE BERGMANN

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16–17 December | SESSION 10 THE CONFERENCE that closes the Open University of Research, featuring invited guests

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TOMASZ RODOWICZ

PRZEMYSŁAW BŁASZCZAK

DANIEL JACEWICZ

JANUSZ STOLARSKI


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7–11 December | Alternative Theatre AcAdemysession 16 Participants will work on their graduation projects under the guidance of the masters of Alternative Theatre Academy.

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THE GROTOWSKI INSTITUTE PUBLICATIONS IN 2016

Publications by the Grotowski Institute• Wandering Towards... Jerzy Grotowski through

the Lens of Jan K. Fiołek (in Polish and English)• Grzegorz Ziółkowski: Texts FROM THE HEART

(in Polish and English)• Leszek Kolankiewicz: Grotowski w praniu

(Grotowski in the Wash)• Wanda Świątkowska: Hamleci Jerzego

Grotowskiego (Jerzy Grotowski’s Hamlets)• The Awakening of the Soul: Rena Mirecka’s

Paratheatre, edited by Pier Pietro Brunelli (in Polish and English)

• Theodoros Terzopoulos: Powrót Dionizosa (The Return of Dionysus)

• Dziady. Recykling (in Polish)• ‘Apocalypsis cum figuris.’ Photographs by

Maurizio Buscarino (in Polish and English)• Ross W. Duffin: Jak strój równomiernie

temperowany zniszczył harmonię (i dlaczego powinno cię to obchodzić) (How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (And Why You Should Care))

Icarus Publishing Enterprise• Sergei Tcherkasski: Stanislavsky and Yoga

Polish Theatre Perspectives• Dariusz Kosiński: Grotowski: A Guide• Leszek Kolankiewicz: Dziady: Theatre of

the Feast of the Dead • Zbigniew Majchrowski: Konrad’s Cell

the organisers reserve the right to modify the programme.

Archive

Reading Room

Laboratory Theatre Space

Cinema Room

CaféTHEA

Brzezinka

Na Grobli Studio

Na Grobli Studio opened in April 2010 at 30/32 Na Grobli Street, in the former home of the Wratislavia Rowing Association. It houses the Studio Space, four rehearsal rooms, guest rooms and the riverside Summer Stage.

Brzezinka the forest base of the Grotowski Institute, is an isolated building near the village of Brzezinka, close to Oleśnica, 46 kilometres from Wrocław. From 1971 to 1981 it was home to Grotowski’s Paratheatre and Theatre of Sources work. It is mainly used as a workshop space.

The headquarters and primary venue of the GROTOWSKI INSTITUTE is a historical home of the Laboratory Theatre in Przejście Żelaźnicze in Wrocław’s Market Square. There, the premiere of The Constant Prince (25th April, 1965) and the official premiere of Apocalypsis cum figuris (11th February, 1969) took place. Now it serves mainly as a base for the archival and documentation unit, as well as for the corresponding research activities, guest lectures, conferences on recent theatrical publications, and seminars. The Laboratory Theatre Space , Cinema Room , the Archive of the Grotowski Institute and Reading Room are located here. Since 2012, Przejście Żelaźnicze has also been home to CaféTHEA , which presents an independent programme of events, including talks for the general public, discussion panels, conferences and exhibitions.

THE GROTOWSKI INSTITUTE hosts arts events, with a primary focus on education, theatre and publishing, and supports research and artistic projects of Polish and international artists. The Institute’s programme lines are inspired by Grotowski’s work. The Grotowski Institute is a platform for the free exchange of knowledge and experiences for exponents of diverse ways of thinking, schools and methodologies.

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ARTIST RESIDENCIES

EVENTS

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Grotowski.net is a website devoted to Jerzy Grotowski and the Laboratory Theatre, run by the Grotowski Institute. The website is organised into four sections. • Encyclopedia is a compendium of knowledge on the life and work of Grotowski and his collaborators. • Media contains photos, audio recordings and videos from the Institute Archive.• Toolkit is an aid designed to facilitate research with tools such as bibliographies, calendars and catalogues.• Performer is an online research journal addressing topics which lie within the field of interest of the Grotowski Institute.

The Grotowski Institute was established on the basis of the CENTRE FOR

STUDY OF JERZY GROTOWSKI'S WORK AND FOr CULTURAL AND THEATRICAL RESEARCH, which operated from 1989 in the former home of the Laboratory Theatre in Wrocław. The change of the name and statutes on 28 December 2006 marked an expansion of the Centre’s programme.

The Institute continues the lines of work of the Grotowski Centre. The new name refers to that of Grotowski’s theatre in Wrocław between 1965 and 1984, ‘Institute for Studies of Acting Method – the Laboratory Theatre’ (abbreviated to Actor’s Institute in 1970), which conducted ‘practical studies on the technical principles of theatre art, focused on the creative technique of the actor’. This allowed Grotowski to strengthen and expand his research and studio work, which greatly contributed to the historical transformation of 20th-century theatre.

THE Archive

The collection of materials housed in the Archive is at the core of the Institute’s activity: it drives and shapes its educational, publishing and events programmes, and helps to widen access to the work of Jerzy Grotowski and the Laboratory Theatre in various languages. The collection can be accessed in the Reading Room.


Across books, journals and films in Polish and English – and co-editions in other languages – the Institute’s publishing activity covers a wide range of topics in cultural and performance research as well as documenting and analysing the work of Jerzy Grotowski and the Laboratory Theatre. The Institute is the publisher of the Polish theatre journal Didaskalia and the online research journal Performer, and co-publisher of Polish Theatre Perspectives (peer-reviewed journal published in English). Icarus Publishing Enterprise, a collaborative initiative of the Grotowski Institute, Odin Teatret (Denmark), Theatre Arts Researching the Foundations (Malta) and Routledge (USA/United Kingdom), presents English translations of texts by artists and scholars about the practice and vision of theatre as a laboratory.PUBLISHING


ALTERNATIVE THEATRE ACADEMY, SESSION 2: RYTHM, HARMONIES, EMOTIONS, LEADERS: TEATR CHOREA & TEATR BRAMA; GOLENIÓW–SZCZECIN, OCTOBER 2015

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EDUCATION

The Institute’s educational programme encompasses practical research and outreach activities, for both specialist audiences and the general public. It aspires to foster a vibrant intellectual and culture-shaping milieu, open to new initiatives, methodologies and subjects. In addition to practical seminars and workshops, the programme includes conferences, lectures, seminars, book launches and film screenings.SELECTED PROJECTS LAUNCHED OR HOSTED BY THE INSTITUTE: • Alternative Theatre Academy • BodyConstitution • Grotowski.net • Laboratory KARAWANASUN The School of Rena Mirecka • Open University of Research • Regula contra Regulam • Studio Kalari • Theatre Cinema

ARTIST rESIDENCIES

The Institute supports the work of independent artists, both young and established, by producing and co-producing performance works and by holding work sessions and work demonstrations.SELECTED ARTISTIC PROJECTS • Masters in Residence (Peter Brook, Eugenio Barba and Odin Teatret, Anatoly Vassiliev, Theodoros Terzopoulos, Diamanda Galás) • Solo Situations: a programme of short performance works • Teatr ZAR’s Armine, Sister • Artist residencies: Teatr ZAR, Studio Matejka

MAUSER, DIR. THEODOROS TERZOPOULOS, 2012PHOTO BY JOHANNA WEBER

EVENTS

The Institute hosts a diverse programme of events, including performances, exhibitions, concerts and festivals. It collaborates with many Polish and international organisations, both academic and artistic.

ODIN TEATRET’S 50TH ANNIVERSARY, THE GROTOWSKI INSTITUTE, LABORATORY THEATRE SPACE, SEPTEMBER 2014

PHOTO BY MACIEJ ZAKRZEWSKI

The Grotowski Institute Rynek-Ratusz 27, 50-101 Wrocław, Poland

Tel./Fax +48 71 34 34 267 [email protected]

Laboratory Theatre Space (Przejście Żelaźnicze) Cinema Room (Przejście Żelaźnicze) Na Grobli Studio (ul. Na Grobli 30/32)

Brzezinka, forest base of the Grotowski Institute CaféTHEA (Przejście Żelaźnicze)

DESIGN BY BARBARA KACZMAREK

Capital of Culture Wrocław 2016 is a programme spanning several years, set to culminate in 2016. It encompasses 400 projects with about 1000 arts events, festivals, concerts and events in urban settings in addition to a host of outreach, arts and educational programmes for residents of Wrocław and Lower Silesia, as well as a number of nationwide and international projects. The ECC programme

was designed by its curators for various arts (architecture, film, literature, music, opera, visual arts, theatre and performance), all of whom are united by a common vision of the city – a vibrant cultural forum.

Events presented by the Grotowski Institute are an important part of the theatre programme of the European Capital of Culture Wrocław 2016, curated by Jarosław Fret. They include both

ongoing projects launched several seasons ago, such as BodyConstitution, VoicEncounters and the Open University of Research, and new ones, created specifically for the ECC Wrocław 2016: the Alternative Theatre Academy and More than Theatre, which includes a semester, a practical seminar and performances.

Between 14 October and 13 November 2016, Wrocław

will be home to the Theatre Olympics, a unique theatre festival founded in 1993. So far, the festival has taken place six times, in Delphi (1995), Shizuoka (1999), Moscow (2001), Istanbul (2006), Seoul (2010) and Beijing (2014), showcasing almost 300 theatre performances.

The programme of the seventh Theatre Olympics, held by the Grotowski Institute under the motto ‘The World as a Place of Truth’, will include six programme lines: • THE MAIN SECTION, showcasing the work of artists that have transformed the theatre over the past few decades;• DZIADY RECYCLING Festival, featuring the currently running productions of Mickiewicz’s Forefathers’ Eve (Dziady) and remixes of its revivals from the previous 50 years;

• LOWER SILESIAN

THEATRE PLATFORM: shows from Wrocław and Lower Silesia;• MORE THAN

THEATRE: shows featuring artists with disabilities;• EASTERN LINE: independent theatre from Central and Eastern Europe; • GUESTS OF

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INSTITUTE.

HAITIAN ARTISTS PAINTING THE MURAL POTO MITAN. HOMMAGE À JERZY GROTOWSKI, 2009PHOTO BY FRANCESCO GALLI

The Grotowski Institute, calendar

Documents

Transcript of The Grotowski Institute, calendar