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Page 1 of 5  Suspension of Expression 30 June – 27 July 2008 Directed by: Jaroslaw Fret and Dr. Grzegorz Ziolkowski The Atelier consists of a series of practical and theoretical work sessions for actors, musicians, singers, dancers and theatre people, with the aim of working on craft in the primary meaning of the word. Craft involves the ability to discover creative motivation within oneself, to make use of tools and to keep the working spaces in order (both studio and environmental spaces and the spaces of the body and the voice). These elements cbuild a skeleton of the actor’s creative preparation for action, the core of which are re-cognition and commitment. The Atelier 2008 was focused on the problem of the 'suspension of expression' as a creative need and force in the art of the actor. PROGRAMME The programme of the Atelier consists of: the Openings theatre festival and Courses. Openings were presentations of performances, concerts and demonstrations of work that was open to wider audiences. Presentations will be made mainly by artists whose projects are realised along the promotional line of the Grotowski Institute. In 2008, the following ensembles shared their works:
Courses was conducted within 3 five-day units which embraced independent lines of work developed by separate artists (over 200 hours of practice in total). Apart from this, the programme included: theoretical classes, meetings with work leaders and film presentations, with introductions. The work of the Atelier was drawn together during the final two days, which were dedicated to individual meetings, presentations of participants’ work, evaluation and summary. SPACES The sessions tooke place at the site of the Grotowski Institute in Wroclaw – in the historical space of the Laboratory Theatre (Rynek Ratusz 27) – as well as iat the forest base of the Institute in Brzezinka: the site of the realisation of the paratheatrical projects of Jerzy Grotowski in the 1970s and of his Theatre of Sources in the early 1980s. SESSION LEADERS
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