The workshop will focus on various aspects of interpersonal encounter. We will explore the common ground of contact, and we will begin to build the true scenery for various meetings, associations, games and physical activities, etc.
Participants of the workshop will experience in different ways the presence of ancient art in modern culture. Playing as the ancient artists, through various forms of theatrical activity, children will enter the world of Antiquity – colorful and full of emotions!
At the workshop we will present a vocal method which allows free and conscious singing. This method has been developed in the USA. It is extremely adaptable to a wide range of styles, does not impose a rigid and technical rigor. Used in jazz and pop music, the musical, and R & B, and even opera.
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).
Mikołaj Trzaska – composer, saxophonist, clarinetist and leader or member of groups: Miłość, Łoskot, The Users, NRD, Gdańskie Słoniki, Masło, IRCHA, Inner Ear, Resonance, Magic, Shofar, and many others. He composed music for theater, documentary and feature films.
He travels the world, working with the world masters of jazz improvisation: Peter Brötzmann, Joe McPhee, Ken Vandermak, Setve Swell, Tim Daisy, Peter Friis Nielsen, Per Ake Holmlandre, Clementine Gasser, Pete Ole Jorgensen, Michael Zerang, Franz Houtzinger, Jay Rosen, Domik Duval, Mark Sanders.
The workshop is designed to show the parents many new ideas about creative play, and how to develop the contact with their children, and how to bring it to new areas, by playing with the rhythm, dancing, funny sounds, choirs, massaging, creating and performing fairy-tales. We want to show how to provide children with many pleasant and stimulating impulses, and most of all we want to give to both – parents and their little babies – all lots of laughter and joy. And finally we propose a joint experience and magical, fabulous adventure…
Nela Brzezińska and Anna Olejnik – since 2011 lead theatre workshops for small children in Theatre Institute in Warsaw.
The sources of stories are authentic myths, fables and parables from the Inuit tradition, taken from the women’s anthology of fairy tales from all around the world.
We want to put a spell on the time by telling stories, like Scheherazade in “The Book of One Thousand and One Nights,” who saved her life with her tales. Together we want to spin a golden thread of the story.
The aim of my workshops is to try out the fisical activities and motions which are directed on reproducibility and persistency. I want to analyse the ability of sustaining the energy of motion, its potenial of continuation and renewal. When we begin from something that gives us resistance we have to look for impulses of freedom and self-consciousness to break throug.’ (Dorota Porowska)
The workshop offers: intensive fisical training based on CHOREA method (also inspired by Gurdjieff and Grotowski techniques), working with complex rhythmic structures and choreographies inspired by ritual dances.
Dorota Porowska – Leading member of Centre for Theatre Practices ‘Gardzienice’ in 1984-2003. Leader of theatrical workshops in Royal Shakespeare Company, at the Acting Departments Columbia i Stanford University and in Institute of Meyerhold in Moscow. In 2002 created a dance group “Labyrinth Dances”. CHOREA Theatre co-founder and member since 2004; theatre workshop instructor, academic lecturer, actresses, choreographer, director. Constantly works as an educator running workshops for students of theater and cultural studies at the Universities in Poznan, Lodz, Wroclaw, Lublin, Warsaw and School of Theater in Liège (Belgium).
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).
kuba@kubapalys.pl, tel: 609 093 045
How our ancestors communicated? Imagine a situation where there is no language that we know yet, no dry, abstract code, behind which we hide our deepest emotions and the overwhelming need for releasing the primal scream. We come to the point where the body, voice, gesture, grimace, inarticulate sounds, merge into one organic act, to speak the world’s oldest language.
In a series of workshops, initiated originally by Simon Thorne (a leading Welsh composer), we will read a special score, which encourages to spontaneous and open interpretation, but with a certain rhythm and dramturgy.