| Theatre Cinema: Solo Situations |
12, 19, 26 February 2014  5, 12, 19 March 2014 Cinema Room Admission free Theatre Cinema as part of “Solo Situations 2” – a programme of short performance works Wed 12 February, 7pm Orpheus and EurydiceScreening of performance by Janusz Stolarski Directed and performed by Janusz Stolarski, video Tomasz Jarosz, music Patryk Lichot, collaborator Renata Stolarska, production Fundacja Teatru Ósmego Dnia, premiere 30 September 2011, 60' This solo performance was inspired by Czes³aw Mi³osz’s poem Orpheus and Eurydice, written after the death of the poet’s second wife, Carol. It is an artistic statement of three artists: director and actor Janusz Stolarski, video artist Tomasz Jarosz and composer and musician Patryk Lichota. They all try to unravel the mysteries and answer the questions present in the poem: the mystery of every “today” turning into “yesterday”, of the disappearance of every “is” replaced by “was”, of the shore we stand on looking as the current carries away the familiar views, of us deluding ourselves that we stand on a shore. Is there a sliver of the devil’s mirror embedded in the heart of an artist? Self-involvement, the feeling that all sensations and relationships with other people are nothing but fuel for artistic work...  Wed 19 February, 7pm Short films by Studio Matejka34’ The screenings will be followed with a talk with director, Matej Matejka.       Pearadise Performed by Anthony Nikolchev, Gema Galiana, story Anthony Nikolchev, directed by Matej Matejka, director of photography Pawel Rozek, Peter Kotrha, script supervisor Torbjorn Oppedal, music The Hi FI Honeydrops, assistant director Adam Hanuljak, executive producer Alexandra Kazazou, edit Peter Kotrha, photographer Karol Jarek, 9’35’’ A man living underground loses his grasp of socially acceptable behavior, remaining paralyzed in his own denial and hyper-consciousness. His projection of himself is the one lie he tries to live by, but even that he cannot control. His only salvation is to not see the reality around him. Best Foreign Film, Best Actor – Los Angeles International Underground Film Festival Life While You Wait Performed by Alexandra Kazazou, story Alexandra Kazazou, directed by Matej Matejka, director of photography Pawel Rozek, Peter Kotrha, script supervisor Torbjorn Oppedal, assistant director Adam Hanuljak, executive producer Anthony Nikolchev, edit Peter Kotrha, photographer Karol Jarek, 4’ Drowning. – Should be dead by now. – Look up. - Still look up. – From time to time, hungry. – It would be nice if a fireplace was over there... – And why is no one sitting on that chair anymore? Twenty Second Street Performed by Magdalena Koza, story Magdalena Koza, directed by Matej Matejka, director of photography Pawel Rozek, Peter Kotrha, script supervisor Torbjorn Oppedal, assistant director Adam Hanuljak, executive producer Gema Galiana, edit Peter Kotrha, Anthony Nikolchev, photographer Karol Jarek, 5’45’’ The story of a woman who cannot rid herself of her childhood memories. Surrounded by strange souvenirs in a mysterious old house, she notes that her life is overflowing with the longing for her family’s house. Juste comme ça Performed by Zuzana Kakalikova, story Zuzana Kakalikova, directed by Matej Matejka, director of photography Pawel Rozek, Peter Kotrha, script supervisor Torbjorn Oppedal, assistant director Adam Hanuljak, executive producers Anthony Nikolchev, Guillaumarc Froidevaux, edit Peter Kotrha, photographer Karol Jarek, 4’17’’ How many faces can a woman have? And how many surprises reside hidden inside of us? A short journey through the “up and downs” of a woman in a red dress. To Desire Performed by Daniel Han, Alexandra Kazazou, story Daniel Han, directed by Matej Matejka, director of photography Pawel Rozek, Peter Kotrha, script supervisor Torbjorn Oppedal, assistant director Adam Hanuljak, executive producer Guillaumarc Froidevaux, edit Peter Kotrha, photographer Karol Jarek, 6’07’’ A requiem on love and memory. In the words of Madeleine L’Engle, “To forget is a form of suicide.” When we love, we build a room in our heart and invite a guest to share this space. Every guest leaves traces of their stay a lock of hair, a letter, a wrinkle in the sheets. These are whispers of moments to remember. But every guest must eventually walk through the door. And to love means having the courage to open the window and let these whispers go. The Mess Performed by Guillaumarc Froidevaux, Zuzana Kakalikova, story Guillaumarc Froidevaux, directed by Matej Matejka, director of photography Pawel Rozek, Peter Kotrha, script supervisor Torbjorn Oppedal, assistant director Adam Hanuljak, executive producers Zuzana Kakalikova, Daniel Han, edit Peter Kotrha, photographer Karol Jarek, 3’52’’ The mess of times, spaces, feelings and thoughts. A surrealistic superposition of dreams, realities and questions about love. Wed 26 February, 7pm Judith Screening of performance by Roberta Carreri of Odin TeatretPerformed by Roberta Carreri, directed by Eugenio Barba, text Roberta Carreri and Eugenio Barba, music arranged by Jan Ferslev, 60’ A white deck chair, a large fan, a bonsai, combs of mother-of-pearl, a decapitated head carved out of wood, long hat pins to pierce its eyes and tongue and for adorning the hair, a red dressing gown, a white silk nightdress. Through the justification of the biblical story of Judith, the performance explores the theme of violence and vulnerability, plunging into an ocean of luminous and murderous eroticism.  Roberta Carreri is an actor, teacher, writer and organiser. She was born in 1953 in Milan, Italy, where she graduated in Advertising Design and studied Art History at the Milan State University. She joined Odin Teatret in 1974 during the group’s stay in Carpignano, Italy. Roberta Carreri has taken part in ISTA (International School of Theatre Anthropology) since its beginning in 1980, coming into contact with performing techniques from Japan, India, Bali and China. This has influenced her work as an actress and teacher. From 1980 to 1986 she studied with Japanese masters such as Katsuko Azuma (Nihon Buyo dancer), Natsu Nakajima and Kazuo Ohno (Butoh dancers). She gives workshops for actors all over the world and presents, as a work demonstration, her professional autobiography, Traces in the Snow. She organises and leads the annual international workshop Odin Week Festival in Holstebro and abroad. In 2009 she directed Rumor with Cinzia Ciaramicoli for Masakini Theatre Company (Malaysia). Her professional experiences are presented in The Actor’s Way, edited by Erik Exe Christoffersen. Roberta Carreri has written her own book Tracce (published in 2007 by Edizioni Il Principe Costante, Milano and by Editora Perspectiva, Brazil in 2011), in which she relives the most relevant aspects of her theatre life - her training, pedagogy and her story as an actress of Odin Teatret. Her articles have been published in journals such as New Theatre Quarterly, Teatro e Storia, Máscara, The Open Page and Performance Research. Wed 5 March, 7pm Play This, or 17 Dances about SomethingScreening of performance by Teatr Dada von Bzdülöw Directed, choreographed and performed by Katarzyna Chmielewska, Anna Steller and Leszek Bzdyl, interior design Micha³ Ko³odziej, costume archaeologist Magda Bem, multimedia support Maciej Salamon, music iTunes and Adam Witkowski, produced by Teatr Dada von Bzdülöw and Teatr Wybrze¿e, support Gdañsk City Council, premiere 9 May 2013, 65’  It is 2044, and Janina, Jan and Janka set to work on an experimental documentary. In one of the rooms of a well-maintained museum theatre, making use of old-timey technology (MacBook Pro, overhead projector, etc.), costumes (2013 Milan Fashion Week) and emotions (drawn from early 21st-century film, dance and theatre), the characters try to play out SOMETHING that used to be the THING. They take their philosophical inspiration from Wilhelm Guido’s philosophy of Return and Acceptance. Wed 12 March, 7pm The Funny Old Man Text Tadeusz Ró¿ewicz, directed by Wies³aw Hejno, scenography Jadwiga Mydlarska-Kowal, music Zbigniew Piotrowski, performed by Jolanta Góralczyk, Józef Frymet, Krzystof Grêbski, S³awomir Przepiórka, Jacek Radomski, Marek Tatko, produced by Wroc³awski Teatr Lalek, premiere 10 February 2001, 75’One of the most famous puppet theatre productions for adults in Poland, based on Tadeusz Ró¿ewicz’s poignant drama. The director split the protagonist into a few characters. This is not only a novel way of staging a well-known drama, but an attempt to reinterpret it.  Courtesy of Wroc³aw Puppet Theatre  Wed 19 March, 7pm Doña Musica’s Butterflies Screening of performance by Julia Varley of Odin TeatretPerformed by Julia Varley, directed by Eugenio Barba, text and scenic space Julia Varley, musical arrangement Jan Ferslev, Frans Winther, lighting Knud Erik Knudsen, premiere Holstebro, September 1997, 60’’ Doña Musica’s Butterflies is a performance about identity which the protagonist defines as a tendency to exist. It is the story of a character who has escaped from a performance – Kaosmos – and tells of her origins and adventures in terms of entomology, through theories of modern physics and with poems and tales from other times.  Julia Varley was born in 1954 in London, Great Britain and joined Odin Teatret in 1976. Apart from acting she is active in directing, teaching, organising and writing. At the age of three she moved to Milan, Italy where she did her schooling, including Philosophy Studies at Milan University. Before joining Odin Teatret she worked in Milan with theatre with Teatro del Drago, Centro Sociale Santa Marta and Circolo La Comune, and earned her living as an assistant film producer. With Odin Teatret, Julia Varley teaches in schools and universities and has synthesised her experience in four work demonstrations: The Echo of Silence, The Dead Brother, Text, Action, Relations and The Flying Carpet. Since 1990 she has been involved in the conception and organisation of ISTA (International School of Theatre Anthropology) and of the University of Eurasian Theatre, both directed by Eugenio Barba. Since its beginning in 1986 she has been active in The Magdalena Project, a network of women in contemporary theatre. She is also artistic director of Transit International Festival, Holstebro, and editor of The Open Page, a journal devoted to women’s work in theatre. In the framework of “The Magdalena Project”, Julia also takes part in the collaborative project “Women with Big Eyes” which has been performed in Denmark and Cuba. In connection with Odin Teatret’s intercultural productions and Holstebro Festuge, Julia has started an ongoing pedagogical collaboration with groups of young actors (“Ageless”, “Jasonites”, “Ur-Hamlet Foreigners”) both in Denmark and abroad. Julia Varley directs her regular longlasting students. She has directed two productions with Pumpenhaus Theater in Germany (Auf den Spuren des Yeti and Blau), two productions with Ana Woolf from Argentina (Seeds of Memory and White is the Night), a children’s production with Hisako Miura from Japan (Fox Wedding) and two productions with Lorenzo Gleijeses and Manolo Muoio (Il figlio di Gertrude and L’esausto o il profondo azzurro) and another with Gabriella Sacco (The Taste of Oranges) from Italy. She has worked as assistant director for the films Anabasis and On the Two Banks of the River, and for the production of the film Come! And the Day Will Be Ours. Julia Varley has written two books: Wind in the West: A novel by a theatre character and Notes of an Odin Actress: Stones of Water. Her articles and essays have been published in journals such as The Mime Journal, New Theatre Quarterly, Teatro e Storia, Conjunto, Lapis, The Open Page, Performance Research, Teatro XXI and Máscara. |