Chorea Theatre invites to an evening of Asian Stories…

Date: 07.02.2012

Time: 18:00

Place: Factory of Art, Tyminieckiego 3 Street, Lodz

We want to share our experiences from our visit in India.

For 10 days in January 2012 we stayed at the Bharat Mahotsav Theater Festival organized by the National School of Drama in New Delhi. Twice – in New Delhi and Amritsar – we presented our performance “Grotowski – an attempt to retreat.”

Our journey was so important and significaant for us that it is worthwhile to organize a special meeting to sum up this intense time.

Tales from the Festival will be enriched by travel experiences from Pola Amber’s monthly trip to Thailand, Cambodia and Laos.

We invite everyone who would like to share their experiences from similar journeys.

We are happy to announce that

CHOREA Theatre and its “Oratorium Dance Project”

became the winner of the plebiscite

on the most important cultural event in the City of Lodz in 2011 -

- ‘The Energy of Culture’.

The most important cultural event in Lodz in 2011 was chosen by

the readers of “Gazeta”, TV Toya viewers and internauts.

THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR VOTES!

At the beginning of 2012, CHOREA Theatre presented the performance  “Grotowski – an attempt to retreat” in India twice:

First on January 9 in New Delhi, second on January 12 in the capital of Punjab – Amritsar.

The performance for the first time in large part was played in english.

In both cities the spectacle “Grotowski – an attempt to retreat,” was enthusiastically received and have met with a spontaneous reaction of the audience, and by many was considered the best and most important performance of 14th edition of the Festival BHARAT RANG MAHOTSAV, organized by the National School of Darma in New Delhi.

Bharat Rang Mahotsav was established a decade ago by the National School of Drama to stimulate the growth and development of theatre across India. Originally a national festival showcasing the work of the most creative theatre workers in India, it has evolved to international scope, hosting theatre companies from around the world, and is now the largest theatre festival of Asia.

See more at: http://www.nsdtheatrefest.com/home.php

CHOREA Theatre as one of three cultural institutions from Łódź realizes cultural project connected with Polish Presidency in the European Union.

“CHOREA in Meyerhold Centre / Moscow 2011″ is a project based on the presentation of diverse artistic achievements of CHOREA Theatre artists to the russian audience in days: 19 and 20 December 2011 at the prestigious  Meyerhold Centre in Moscow.

Many years of experience of  Tomasz Rodowicz and the founders of CHOREA  in various centers around the theatrical world and a permanent research work of CHOREA artists have created a original theatrical language of expression, combining sources of European culture (antiquity) with the most radical contemporary forms of theater, of movement, of drama and music.

In addition to performing the acclaimed spectacle: “After The Birds” CHOREA artists will also attend in a meeting with the audience and will lead a Master Class workshop, during which they will present unique method of their theatre work based on musicality, rhythm and intensive phisical body work, working with a partner and working in a group.

Meyerhold Center is one of the most important theatrical institutions in Russia. It was founded in 1991 in Moscow.

Workshops will be built on personal histories derived from memories, associations and dreams. These intimate introspection will became a starting point in the process of building physical intensity.

JEKYLL & HYDE – a performance by couscouskuskus Theatre is the result of stage work of director Klaudiusz Ślusarczyk with three actresses from young generation. Performance is a combination of theater and dance, of body language and women dialogue. The author examines the possibility of unconscious impulses in a human being, which are not so easy to master, and which strongly influence on our relationships with others.

During the workshop we will present a vocal method which allows free and conscious singing.

The main aim of the workshop is to find an organic connection between body, movement and sound.

We will focus on the role of listening in theater action, and on awakening the awareness of the sound space of the stage .

Kuba Pałys – (1981) instrumentalist, graduate of the Jazz and Popular Music faculty. Winner of many festivals. Vocally educateded in Poland, USA and Brazil, under the guidance of outstanding teachers: Dean Kaelin, Wendy Parr, Sonia Lachowolska, Regina Machado, Rafa Barreiros, Andres Martorell, Bartek Caboń. Rotary Club scholarship holder in the Music Faculdade Santa Marcelina  in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Since 2008 played dozens of concerts in Poland, accompanied by Brazilian musicians (Sambosa, Brazylia Śpiewana project, Barbosa Trio, Tó Brandileone).

When the movement can be called a dance? How to improvise? How improvisation turns into structure and forms a choreography? How to learn to dance in sync? We will look for answers to these questions during the workshop with Lara Ward – British dancer and choreographer.

Lara Ward-British choreographer and dancer, graduate of Mark Edward School of European Dance Theatre, worked with Theatre Iolo, Mr. and Mrs. Clark, Doug Comley, Human Beast and Solerference, Ensemble Cymru, Pickled Herring Theatre. Since 2008 associated with Earthfall Dance Company. Lives and works in Cardiff (Wales).

Elżbieta Dziuk and Krzysztof Renik for many years penetrate the world of Asian performances and rituals, their special interest focuses on performing arts of India and Tibet. Since 2005, in collaboration with Michał Zielony, an independent film producer, they create documentary films which present the culture of India and Tibet.

During the evening we will show three films: “Cham, that is dance”, “Lhamo – opera from the land of the Snow Lion” and “With Dalai Lama in Himalayas.” After the presentation we envite to a meeting with the film authors.

What relatin exists between the body and the space in which the body acts?

In what way the empty space affects on the shape of motion, in what way the action affects on the view of the space?

Iga Zaleczna: Dancer, actress, dance teacher, choreographer, director. Experienced workshop instructor. Cooperates with Pawel Passini, Nettheatre, Pinokio Theatre. Member of CHOREA Theatre group. Co-founder of ‘Dances of the Labyrinth’ artistic and research group.

Director: Tomasz Rodowicz

Music: Tomasz Krzyżanowski

Choreography: CHOREA

Stage design: Paweł Korbus, Tomasz Rodowicz

Light: Tomasz Krukowski

Cast: Joanna Chmielecka, Julia Jakubowska, Małgorzata Lipczyńska, Janusz Adam Biedrzycki, Piotr Grabowski, Paweł Korbus, Tomasz Rodowicz

Premiere date: Friday, 13.08.2010 (Festival Opening); Friday, 20.08.2010, Factory of Art

It doesn’t matter that it’s Grotowski. I doesn’t matter that it’s THIS Grotowski, about whom academic papers are written, to whom institutes and dozens of discussions during the jubilee Year of Grotowski 2009 are devoted. It’s important that he made the same mistakes, had moments of weakness and used to overcome crisis in order to fall into another one. Six young actors from Chorea theatre met someone they could talk to. Just because he never was a mysterious legend. He tormented himself and other people. Used to discover something and quickly give it up, open something and shut it down with disappointment or nonchalance. “Grotowski – the attempt to retreat” is a personal play for Chorea which celebrates its fifth anniversary. It contains many confessions verging on exhibitionism. A lot of physical extremism, fighting with the body, the desperate search for communication through movement. The young artists struggle with one another, use quotes from Grotowski’s works to talk about their own maladjustment. The most intimate interlude is constituted by the recollections of Tomasz Rodowicz, a several decades older director, who talks about a night once spent with Grotowski in a hospital in Chicago. It was a crucial moment, a moment of questioning the certainties, throwing off the balance. A moment which, if it happens, never ceases to exist. Grotowski lived in such a moment of a constant questioning. Rodowicz tried to reject this destabilizing experience for years. What will 20-year-old actors do with their turning points? (Joanna Derkaczew, ‘Gazeta Wyborcza’)