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Performance by Kamila Klamut in collaboration with Mariana Sadovska Performance as part of Solo Situations 4 Sat 12 March 2016, 19:00 Sun 13 March 2016, 18:00 Mon 14 March 2016, 19:00 Wroc³aw Contemporary Theatre, Small Stage, ul. Rze¼nicza 12
Admission: 15 PLN Pass for 3 performances: 35 PLN sekretariat@grotowski-institute.art.pl; tel. 71 34 45 320 All tickets booked in advance must be collected from our Office in Przej¶cie ¯ela¼nicze by the date and time agreed at the time of booking. I dedicate this performance to my Sister. Kamila Klamut Camille Claudel was a sculptress. She was also a sister of Paul Claudel and for ten years the companion and artist-partner of Auguste Rodin. She died over 70 years ago. The last 30 years of her life Camille Claudel spent in a mental asylum. The last photo ever taken of Camille provided an impulse that directly influenced the final shape of the performance. It features Camille together with a friend who visited her in the hospital. I imagined that the visits, which didn’t occur very often during her 30 years in the asylum, may have evoked in her a cascade of memories – memories whose shapes I sensed and clothed in my own sensitivity. See the trailer of the performance Performed by Kamila Klamut, Ewa Pasikowska 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 Premiered in Polish 27 February 2014 Premiered in English 7 February 2015 English translation by Ewa Pasikowska Translation edited by Anne Dennis Running time 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.  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. Klamut co-created, with Mariana Sadovska, Camille, a piece inspired by the life and work of French sculptress Camille Claudel, which premiered in the Grotowski Institute in February 2014. In September 2014 she began collaborating with Studio Matejka, with which she performed in The Harmony of Contradictions: Poland, directed by Matej Matejka. In April 2015, following the invitation of Milan Kozanek, she took part in Couch Corner Performance dance project that took place in the Grotowski Institute during Cyrkulacje Festival. Kamila Klamut closely collaborates on the BodyConstitution programme that has been realised by Grotowski Institute within the domain of research in practice. 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. Ewa Pasikowska studied philosophy at the University of Wroc³aw. She was part of the group that formed Teatr ZAR in 2002, and then a member of the company until 2012. While with ZAR she took part in several expeditions to Georgia, Bulgaria, Corsica and Sardinia, and performed as an actor-musician in Teatr ZAR’s triptych: Gospels of Childhood, Caesarean Section: Essays on Suicide and Anhelli: The Calling. She explored Ukrainian orthodox chant traditions (irmos) under the direction of Natalya Polovynka of the Maisternia Pisni Artistic Research Centre (Lviv, Ukraine). In 2012 she moved to London where, with theatre director Andrei Biziorek, she formed Waving Not Drowning! Physical Theatre. In 2014 Ewa was invited to join the performance piece of Kamila Klamut, Camille, in which she has been performing since. Currently, together with Andrei Biziorek and a group of singers, she researches and performs Corsican polyphonic chants. Ewa continues collaborating with members of Teatr ZAR (Aleksandra Kotecka and Tomasz Wierzbowski), exploring Georgian polyphonic singing. She is also a self-taught instrumentalist.
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