Youth The­atre Gro­up

Youth The­atre Gro­up was es­ta­bli­shed thanks to the work of the Chil­dren's The­atre Gro­ups, which have been cre­ating spon­ta­ne­ous and hi­gh­ly im­pro­vi­sed the­atre plays ba­sed on the­ir own ide­as for se­ve­ral years. The­ir the­atre work­shops take pla­ce re­gu­lar­ly, un­der the gu­idan­ce of CHO­REA The­atre ar­ti­sts and in­vi­ted gu­ests. We in­tro­du­ce a lot of sha­red fun and a bit of sta­ge di­sci­pli­ne, as well as work on gro­up in­te­gra­tion and team ener­gy. The main idea is to give chil­dren the op­por­tu­ni­ty for cre­ati­ve expres­sion, with as lit­tle adult in­ter­fe­ren­ce as po­ssi­ble.

The aim of the Youth The­atre Gro­ups is to unle­ash the cre­ati­ve po­ten­tial that lies do­rmant in eve­ry young per­son, to in­tro­du­ce cre­ati­ve gro­up work and some aspects of CHO­REA The­atre tra­ining, to in­te­gra­te, to de­ve­lop a sen­se of fa­mi­lia­ri­ty with one's own body, and to pro­mo­te work as a part­ner and a team. The work is ba­sed pri­ma­ri­ly on the chil­dren's cre­ati­vi­ty, which is the star­ting po­int for cre­ating a the­atre. An im­por­tant aspect is the de­ve­lop­ment of co­ope­ra­tion skills and bu­il­ding mu­tu­al re­spect. The­atre ac­ti­vi­ties for youth in­c­lu­de body work, mu­sic work­shops, set de­sign and art work­shops, but abo­ve all, work with chil­dren's ima­gi­na­tion.

The Youth The­atre Gro­up has been wor­king sin­ce Ja­nu­ary 2025. The gro­up con­si­sts of par­ti­ci­pants who pre­vio­usly be­lon­ged to Chil­dren's The­atre Gro­ups - the Ol­der and the Ol­dest - wor­king sin­ce 2017. Gro­up par­ti­ci­pants wor­ked with many ar­ti­sts (Łu­kasz Bat­ko, Han­na Ma­tu­siak, Mi­chał Jóź­wik, Mi­chał Su­rosz, Mar­ta Góźdź, Pa­weł Gło­wa­ty, Jola Kró­lic­ka, Fi­lip Ap­pel, Pa­weł Kor­bus, Do­mi­ni­ka Krzy­ża­now­ska, Pa­tryk Za­kroc­ki, Do­ro­ta Po­row­ska, Ka­ta­rzy­na Żuk, Prze­my­sław Buk­siń­ski, Ma­te­usz Pa­ku­ła, Grze­gorz Fajn­gold, Anna Racz­kow­ska, Ja­nusz Szy­mań­ski), cre­ated few the­atre per­for­man­ces ("The­atre Jo­kes" in 2018, "The City" in 2019, "The Good Hu­mo­ur Shop" in 2021, "From Time to Time" in 2022 , “Ani­mal Ma­chi­nes” in 2023, “I’ll eat Your Jam” in 2023) and the exhi­bi­tion ("Me­mo­ry" in 2020). The per­for­man­ce "The Good Hu­mo­ur Shop" re­ce­ived the "Trends 2022" Award for an un­co­nven­tio­nal and ef­fec­ti­ve ap­pro­ach to the cre­ati­ve pro­cess, du­ring the 43rd Na­tio­nal Fe­sti­val of Youth The­atre - Dzia­twa 2022.

Youth The­atre Gro­up

Participants' age: 13-16

Date: worshops are held on Fridays

Time: 6 pm - 8 pm

Place: Art Factory in Lodz, 3 Ty­mie­niec­kie­go Street

Admission: 80 PLN / monthly

Leaders: Janusz Adam Biedrzycki, Anna Maszewska

Information / booking: j.biedrzycki@gabrykasztuki.org, +48 667 326 711