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Performance “4th Republic of Dreams” | Poland

Creators: Stowarzyszenie Sztuka Nowa / Sztuka Nowa Association

Direction: Dawid Żakowski

Choreography: Wojciech Grudziński

Performers: Ewelina Sobieraj, Borys Jaźnicki, Michał Tokarski

Music: Kasai

Kurator: Zofia Urszula Komasa

Dramaturgy cooperation: Patrycja Babicka

Choreographic cooperation: Anna Nowicka

Photographic cooperation and film documentation: Pat Mic

Performative cooperation: Agata Zataj, Paweł Mandziewski, Ewa Szewczyk

Leading the dream matrices and analysis: Bartosz Samitowski, Stowarzyszenie Analityków Jungowskich
The dream matrices were attended by: participants of the Rzeczpospolita Snów platform and performers from the Teatr Młodych Twórców Maska Sochaczew SCK

Coordination and production: Iwa Ostrowska

Production: Sztuka Nowa

Partners: Instytut im. Jerzego Grotowskiego, Stowarzyszenie Analityków Jungowskich

Performance was co-financed by The Capital City of Warsaw, in terms of the project “Repertuar Sztuki Nowej 2022” (“New Art Repertoire 2022”).

Date: 19.08.2023 / Saturday

Time: 7 pm

Place: Stage in Art_Inkubator in Art Factory in Lodz

Tickets: 35 PLN (reduced) / 45 PLN (regular)

Tickets purchase: from July 21, 2023 / via kicket.com portal (online payment) / at the festival office (payment in cash and by card)

Duration: 60 minutes (no intermissions)

Viewers' age: 13+

Performance in Polish.

Sensitive elements: the performance includes loud music and dynamically changing lights.

After the event we invite the viewers to a meeting and discussion with the artists.

The discussion will be held in Polish.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PERFORMANCE

“The Fourth Republic of Dreams” is an artistic and research project. The scenario and the method of artistic work have been based on the study of dreams of Polish males and females during the pandemics.

“The Third Reich of Dreams” by Charlotte Beradt has been one of the key inspirations for that project. Charlotte Beradt, who in the 1930’s was a collector of Berliners’ dreams found out that those reflect social processes and are a certain announcement of totalitarian dictatorship. Her book inspired the development of the method of psychoanalysis in the 1980's of the 20th century called “the social dreaming matrix”.

“The matrix proves that dreams may produce contents that may be juxtaposed with hidden social needs, phenomena or social movements" - says Dawid Żakowski, the director of the performance. “Within the framework of our project we managed to collectively implement the dreaming matrix. The first took place on July 17, 2020. Having analysed the matrix we have noticed that the first archetype that came into realisation was a child, a child that was in danger. And when we started to interpret the material of dreams, little did we know that soon there would be women’s strike and street rallies organised to protest against the verdict of the Constitutional Tribunal prohibiting abortion. It was hard to imagine for anybody that a child would become a symbol of today’s Poland with its clashes, polemics, discussions, conflicts and disputes in the public sphere."

The matrix being the main protagonist of „The Fourth Republic of Dreams” is analogical to the artificial intelligence that humankind tries to get closer to, by means of employment of the classical tools of sensitivity and emotional programming. It speaks in codes, the internal landscape and transformation. It models, decomposes, manipulates and flows through the performers’ bodies with all the related information that has been encrypted in the code of physical movement by the choreographer, Wojciech Grudziński, who employs such characteristic chorographical tools as bricolage, recycling and mush up.

FRAGMENTS OF REVIEWS

“These are poetic and raw stories. Made of known and unusual shapes - as dancer’s ribs the shape of which is often seen through fabrics of their outfits. This split between what’s individual and statistical is intriguing. There is an author to each hermetic and original story, which is often very personal. At the same time, the story is distanced and mediated.”

(Dominik Gac, “Inside the dream room”, teatralny.pl)

INFORMATION ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Stowarzyszenie Sztuka Nowa / Sztuka Nowa Association - is a name of the theatre existing since 2007 and a project that operates interdisciplinary within the area of performative arts and new choreography. The artists cooperating with Sztuka Nowa conduct a study on the theatrical techniques and those involving movement, organise international dance laboratories and artistic residencies in Poland and Europe. The strategy of democratic management, cross-disciplinary approach towards the creative process that is carried out and the cooperation with experts, constitutes the potential of Sztuka Nowa. The productions under Sztuka Nowa being on the brink of physical theatre, new choreography and performance, make up to create the theatrical program of Centrum Performatywne SZKOŁA (THE SCHOOL Performative Center) situated at Emilii Plater Street in Warsaw.

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