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STUDIO || ROSA’s exploratory theatre undertaking as part of the company’s residency at the Grotowski Institute Second phase 26 January – 24 February 2016 Laboratory Theatre SpaceFirst phase 1 August – 30 September 2015Brzezinka, forest base of the Grotowski Institute and Laboratory Theatre Space Directed by Prof Grzegorz Zió³kowski Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznañ and STUDIO || ROSA Consultant Prof Paul Allain School of Arts, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK After the twilight of grand narratives, only some small ones have remained available for us in the niches. Everywhere spectacle, a show with the associated element of drama, has been holding sway. Drama is no more than a game, a shoot ‘em up game, a game of slaughtering. Who with whom? Who against whom? Who to whom…? Who under whom…? We need stories that with the natural rhythm of the tides allow scenarios of behaviour to seep into us and install patterns of relationships within ourselves. Drama and games do that too, but differently – through conflict, through bursts of ruptures and reconciliations. Storytelling and tales are like living grandmother’s or grandfather’s voices which whisper right into the ear of a granddaughter or a grandson homeopathic words that have the power to immunize. These voices fade away and we – deafened by the media clamour, often adding to it – hear less and less. We need stories – as Peter Brook says – but not trivial stories, not all kinds of gossip. These stories can be real like in This Blinding Absence of Light by Tahar Ben Jelloun or fictional like in the play Incendies by Wajdi Mouwad. The story of a TAZMAMART prisoner who survived because he was visited in his cell by an angel or maybe just a sparrow, or the story of a mother in Incendies who was raped by her own son and gave life – in pain and horror – to twins, and then in her will bequeathed them the fight for adulthood – these stories carry the seeds of tragedy within themselves. The tragedy of responsibility, tragedy of being in response. Tragedy to be played in the theatre – this anthropological machine that teaches us to see and hear, to speak and understand. STUDIO || ROSA’s hybrid and multilayered undertaking of Feeling the PULSE confronts these issues with practice and thought – with performances, practical seminars, written reflections and living dialogues. All in the hope that a younger generation of gifted and devoted artists will see its own responsibilities more clearly and feel them more tangibly. Grzegorz Zió³kowski Feeling the PULSE timeline First phase • 1–8 August 2015: STUDIO || ROSA’s residencies• 9–22 August 2015: Acting Techniques Intensive Seminars ATIS, open seminar • 24 August – 11 September 2015: STUDIO || ROSA’s residencies • 13–30 September 2015: ATIS NICHE, consultative seminar • 28–30 September 2015: ATIS SPARK, initiatory seminar • 30 September 2015: ATIS SHARING, open summary of work Second phase • 29–30 January, 1 February 2016: TAZM Silence of Light, STUDIO || ROSA’s performance• 8–9 February 2016: HEART Silence of Polygon, Wroc³aw premiere of STUDIO || ROSA’s performance • 13–14 February 2016: TAZM Silence of Light, STUDIO || ROSA’s performance • 16 February 2016: Duet ON SILENCE, in conversation with Prof Grzegorz Zió³kowski about his book Dwug³os O CISZY (Duet ON SILENCE) (in Polish) and Texts FROM THE HEART (in English and in Polish), led by Prof Dobrochna Ratajczakowa • 16–17 February 2016: Duet ON SILENCE, performances of STUDIO || ROSA’s theatre duet 16 February 2016: TAZM Silence of Light 17 February 2016: HEART Silence of Polygon • 18 February 2016: HEART Silence of Polygon, STUDIO || ROSA’s performance • 18 February 2016: Actor: Artisan – Artist, dialogue between Prof Paul Allain and Prof Grzegorz Zió³kowski on the actor craft and art • 22 February 2016: Into the Performer’s Process, workshop led by Claudio Santana Bórquez (Chile) • 23–24 February 2016: ATIS NICHE SHARING, presentation of miniatures developed during ATIS NICHE: Csongor Köllõ (Romania) Emergency Exit Andrea Madrid Mora (Catalonia) Veronica’s Double Mohammad Reza Aliakbari (Iran) Abel and Cain • 23 February 2016: The Persona: the Lucidity of the Performer’s Path, performative lecture by Claudio Santana Bórquez (Chile)  STUDIO || ROSA (Readiness, Openness, Sharing, Actor) is a space between people that serves long-term work on oneself and research into the relationship between actor training and theatre creation.The work is focused on awareness and the harmonisation of breath, body and voice. At its heart is a quality of lightness, sought for in the flow of actions and dialogues with oneself, one’s environment, partner, group. We strive to make it present in training and in improvisations, understood as a space for being playful. Improvisations help to build a bridge between training and the spheres of the imagination, composition and creation. It is in this domain where performances appear – created by a common effort. Apart from conducting research into actor training and creating performances, STUDIO||ROSA: • leads ATIS Acting Techniques Intensive Seminars • holds guest performances and work sessions for students as part of the ACTING TECHNIQUES programme • helps students in their theatre initiatives • co-organises (together with the Drama, Theatre and Performance Department of Adam Mickiewicz University, the university’s “Masks” Theatre Centre and Biuro Podró¿y Theatre) the MASKS Forum in Poznañ, a platform for dialogue through theatre. Rosa is Polish for “dew”; the Studio is called Pracownia Rzemios³a oraz Sztuki Aktorskiej ROSA in Polish, which literally translates as “acting craft and art work-room”. STUDIO || ROSA works in the Theatre Studio in Collegium Maius of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznañ and wishes to thank Professors Dobrochna Ratajczakowa, El¿bieta Kalemba-Kasprzak and Bogumi³a Kaniewska for their ongoing support. More information: www.grzeg-rosa.home.amu.edu.pl www.facebook.com/pracowniarosa Grzegorz Zió³kowski is a teacher, director, editor, translator, and author of books on Peter Brook (2000) and Jerzy Grotowski (2007). He is Professor in the Drama, Theatre and Performance Department of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznañ (AMU). He directs STUDIO || ROSA and the Acting Techniques Intensive Seminar ATIS. He is currently writing a book on self-immolation in contemporary culture. More information  Maria Bohdziewicz is an actress with STUDIO || ROSA, an AMU theatre studies graduate. She has led educational and artistic projects in local communities and with disabled people. She writes poems and raps. More information  Maciej Zakrzewski is an actor and musician with STUDIO || ROSA. He is a PhD student in drama at AMU in Poznañ and teaches in the Poznañ Academy of Performing Arts (PAPA). An ethnology and cultural anthropology graduate from AMU, he works as a theatre photographer. More information  Maria Kapa³a was a student of Classical studies at the University of Wroc³aw. She participated in the Academy for Theatre Studies Gardzienice, the Regula contra Regulam project and ATIS SITE OF THE FIRE (August 2014). She has been an actress with STUDIO || ROSA since January 2015.
Marta Pautrzak is a theatre studies student at Adam Mickiewicz University (UAM). She attended “Theatre Etudes” classes led by Grzegorz Zió³kowski and took part in the ATIS PANDORA’S BOX (February 2014) and ATIS SPARK (December 2014) seminars. She has been a trainee at STUDIO || ROSA since 2015. Marta collaborates with Janusz Stolarski.
Paulina Krzeczkowska – is a student of French philology at Wroc³aw University. She participated in Rena Mirecka’s workshops and in ATIS 2015 STARS and SPARK. She was a trainee with STUDIO||ROSA during ATIS 2015 NICHE.
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