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Premiere of a performance with Kamila Klamut and Mariana Sadovska Performance as part of Solo Situations Thu-Sat 27–28 February, 1 March 2014, 7pm Laboratory Theatre Space Tickets: 15 PLNBookings and tickets: sekretariat@grotowski-institute.art.pl; tel. 71 34 45 320 Online tickets Performance in Polish Camille Claudel, sculptor, Paul Claudel’s sister, Rodin’s partner of 10 years. She died 70 years ago after spending the last 30 years of her life in a mental asylum. When I think of her, I think of some facts from her life and wonder how to name them, how to filter them through my sensibility. A long-unseen friend arrives, setting off a cascade of memories… Kamila Klamut  Performers: Kamila Klamut, Mariana Sadovska Music: Mariana Sadovska Directed in collaboration by: Mariana Sadovska, Carol Brinkmann Ellis, Vivien Wood, Alexandra Kazazou Lights: Bartosz Radziszewski Stage design assistance: Bajka Tworek Sculptures: Marianna Lisiecka, Magdalena Wêgrzyn Make-up: students of Akademia i Studium Fryzjerstwa Filmowego i Kreatywnego oraz Wizerunku Teatralno-Filmowego we Wroc³awiu Duration: 50 minutes The piece includes excerpts from Camille Claudel’s letters in Marie Magneron's and Magdalena Spytkowska's translation and Zuzanna Ginczanka’s poems. Special thanks to Jaros³aw Fret. I dedicate this performance to my Sister. Kamila Klamut Kamila Klamut has a degree in cultural studies from the University of Wroc³aw. Since mid-1990s she had been closely associated with the Centre for Study of Jerzy Grotowski’s Work and for Cultural and Theatrical Research, and then, since 2007, with the Grotowski Institute. In 1996, at the invitation of Grzegorz Bral and Anna Zubrzycka, she took part in forming Song of the Goat Theatre and performed in its first piece, Song of the Goat: Dithyramb. Since 1999 she has collaborated with Jaros³aw Fret, with whom she has been on several expeditions searching for the oldest extant forms of music. She co-initiated the founding of Teatr ZAR, and appears in all three parts of Teatr ZAR’s triptych Gospels of Childhood, which has been performed in numerous cities around the world, including London, Florence, Paris, Los Angeles, Chicago, Cairo, Seoul, New Delhi and Edinburgh, where Caesarean Section: Essays on Suicide won a Total Theatre award for Physical Theatre and a Herald Angel at the 2012 Fringe Festival. She is currently part of Teatr ZAR’s new project “Armine, Sister”. Mariana Sadovska is a Ukrainian singer and actress currently living in Cologne, Germany. In her work she draws on Ukraine’s rich musical tradition. She mainly works with Ukrainian folk songs, and the essence of her performance work is what happens at the intersection of the songs and her non-folk contemporary artistic imagination backed up with extraordinary vocal skills. Hailed by critics as the Ukrainian Björk, she spent ten years in Poland, working for the Centre for Theatre Practices “Gardzienice”. A few years ago she embarked on a solo career, and has given solo concerts around the world. In 2013 she received the RUTH award, the most prestigious German world music prize, and made her debut as a composer with the requiem Chernobyl: The Harvest, which she performed with the Kronos Quartet at the Kiev National Theatre and at the Lincoln Center in New York. |