Odys­sey

Cre­ators: Com­mu­nal Cho­ir, CHO­REA The­atre

Le­aders: Grze­gorz Wie­rus, Eli­na To­ne­va

Cho­re­ogra­phy: To­masz Ro­do­wicz, Eli­na To­ne­va

Cast: Ma­ciej Bed­na­rek, Mag­da­le­na Bie­lec­ka, Mag­da­le­na Bo­row­ska, Ka­ta­rzy­na Cie­cha­now­ska, Bar­ba­ra Cie­śle­wicz, Ja­cek Czap­nik, Bo­gna Czer­wiń­ska, Łu­kasz Fi­li­pow, Ka­ta­rzy­na Ga­lic­ka-Szer, Ka­ta­rzy­na Gron­kie­wicz, Ma­ria Grzesz­czak, Zo­fia Kę­dra, Mar­cin Ko­by­liń­ski, Ewa Ko­ryc­ka-Grze­gor­czyk, Róża Ku­ba­sie­wicz, Ame­lia Lu­bec­ka, Piotr Ma­ty­jasz­czyk, Wik­tor Mo­ra­czew­ski, Mag­da­le­na Pasz­kie­wicz, Wan­da Po­te­raj, To­masz Preuss, Anna Przy­byt, Ka­mi­la Ro­ba­kie­wicz, Jo­an­na Sta­nec­ka, Mar­ta Ster­na, Alek­san­dra Sza­łek, Pau­la Tra­lew­ska, Alek­san­dra Zio­mek

Poster: Mag­da­le­na Bie­lec­ka

Pro­du­cer: Zo­fia Kę­dra

Pro­duc­tion: Te­atr CHO­REA

Pre­mie­re: Au­gust 30, 2026, CHOREA Theatre, International Theatre Festival Retroperspektywy

Du­ra­tion: 60 mi­nu­tes

Age re­stric­tions: None

Con­cert "Odys­sey" is the Com­mu­nal Cho­ir’s se­cond mu­si­cal pro­ject. The con­cert draws in­spi­ra­tion from the Odys­sey - the fun­da­men­tal idea of jo­ur­ney­ing and wan­de­ring, here in pur­su­it of so­und.

The en­sem­ble ta­kes the au­dien­ce on a jo­ur­ney thro­ugh mu­si­cal tra­di­tions from dif­fe­rent parts of the world. Here, con­tem­po­ra­ry ar­ran­ge­ments of an­cient Gre­ek mu­sic in­ter­twi­ne with pie­ces de­ri­ved from other Eu­ro­pe­an cul­tu­res. It is a vo­cal nar­ra­ti­ve abo­ut a jo­ur­ney, abo­ut the se­arch for go­od­ness and har­mo­ny in a world full of cha­os, told thro­ugh many vo­ices and lan­gu­ages.

The pro­ject is the re­sult of se­ve­ral mon­ths’ work by the en­sem­ble in se­ar­ching for new me­ans of vo­cal and phy­si­cal expres­sion, in­te­gra­ted with so­und and word. It is also a fur­ther step to­wards explo­ring and de­fi­ning the cho­ir’s uni­que ar­ti­stic iden­ti­ty.

The clash of con­tem­po­ra­ry com­po­si­tions and mo­dern per­for­man­ce to­ols with the ol­dest exam­ples of mu­si­cal no­ta­tion, forms the ba­sis of "The Odys­sey", per­for­med by a 30-strong cho­ir, un­der the ba­ton of the di­stin­gu­ished con­duc­tor and mu­si­cian Grze­gorz Wie­rus.