The Harvest
Polish Dance Theatre - POLAND
6 October 2017, 19:00
The Krzysztof Penderecki European Center for Music in Lusławice
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You have passed through the world and you have given shape to the world through your deeds.
Look into the world, into the shape of the world.
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Groans and curses will pursue you, chase after you.
You are as powerful as God, who bears the world on his shoulder.
["The return of Odysseus; a drama in three acts." by Stanisław Wyspiański
translated with an introd. by Howard Clarke, published: Bloomington, Indiana University, 1966]
The Harvest refers to the rituals accompanying harvest and the cycle of husbandry, nature and human life, conceptualised ethnographically (inspired, among others, by Oskar Kolberg’s studies and Zofia Kossak’s Polish Year), as well as anthropologically and philosophically. The narrative axis of the show is delineated by the trope of the return of Odysseus, based on Homer’s classic epic and Stanisław Wyspiański’s “The Return of Odysseus”.
The performers – dancers of the Polish Dance Theatre, and an actor – portray the protagonists exploring various variations of kinetic and verbal events. The physical and psychological intensity of their actions is accompanied by the ascetic visuals.
The composition of Eugeniusz Rudnik, pioneer of Polish electronic music, was used in the performance. The vocal parts, based on traditional Polish music themes, has been contributed and performed by Adam Strug.
"The Harvest" premiere inaugurated a new artistic program of the Theatre in 2017 - "The Year of Sorcerers".
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Polish Dance Theatre
The Polish Dance Theatre was founded in 1973, it is professional and autonomic collective, it’s countenance evolved from the ballet-shaped spectacle forms to contemporary genres: dance theatre, characterized by crossing over genres, as well as technical and stylistic borders, liberating itself from traditional methods of expression, leaning toward interdisciplinarity, pursuing new theatre spaces and improvisation based process of creation.
Iwona Pasińska
Iwona Pasińska is a choreographer, movement dramatist, theatre theorist, artistic director of Movements Factory and co-founder of the Movements Factory Foundation. She graduated from the Feliks Parnell Ballet School in Łódź. She holds a degree in theatre theory from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, where she also did her PhD, focusing on the experience of the body in contemporary theatre from the perspective of dance theatre. In her research she focuses on movement and body expression in performative spaces.
Since 2002 she has displayed interest in movement composition, dramaturgy of body expression and choreography, which materialised in the form of three productions premiered at the Atelier of Polish Dance Theatre: Game I. Time, Moment: game, We Play x3. Together with Marcin Maćkiewicz, producer and culture promoter, Pasińska founded Movements Factory. With the ensemble she produced Steam desert, Archipelag Malta, We Play 4 U, Saligia. 7 Urban Sins (an open-air performance in urban spaces, Malta Festival, 2009). In 2010 she created two pieces for Movements Factory: Trop: DaNce as Art, named the most interesting dance theatre event of 2010 by Teatr magazine, and BodyLand. Since 2010 she has been collaborating as choreographer or movement dramaturge with dramatic theatres, operas and alternative theatres, including: Teatr Wielki in Poznań, Teatr Wybrzeże, Teatr Współczesny in Szczecin, Teatr Ochoty in Warsaw, Teatr Powszechny in Warsaw, Opera Nova in Bydgoszcz, Teatr Lubuski in Zielona Góra, and Teatr Modrzejewskiej in Legnica.
In 2015 she established Movements Factory Foundation. In 2016 she has become the Director of the Polish Dance Theatre.
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6 October 2017:
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