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| Jerzy Grotowski (1933-1999) | |
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Page 2 of 4 1970 Grotowski travels to India and Kurdistan; the Laboratory Theatre presents its works worldwide (including at the Shiraz festival in Iran); Grotowski decides to stop working on new performances1971–1974 New version of Apocalypsis cum figuris developed, which was presented until 1980, with Cieslak, Zbigniew Cynkutis, Antoni Jaholkowski, Rena Mirecka and Elizabeth Albahaca, Zygmunt Molik and Stanislaw Scierski making up the cast. In 1972, Grotowski publishes Holiday and opens the paratheatrical phase of his work (one undertaking within this phase is Special Project); he invites new collaborators such as Wlodzimierz Staniewski and Jacek Zmyslowski to join the work; the Laboratory Theatre performs at the Olympics in Munich; Grotowski receives a Polish state award (1972) and the title of honorary professor from the University of Pittsburgh (1973) 1975 In the summer, Grotowski leads the University of Research of the Theatre of Nations in Wroclaw with more than 5 000 participants from 23 countries. He invites Barba, Jean-Louis Barrault, Brook, Joseph Chaikin, André Gregory, and Luca Ronconi; in the autumn the university is continued during the Venice Biennale (Italy) 1977 Zmyslowski leads The Mountain Project with Grotowski’s supervision 1978–1982 Grotowski directs the international project Theatre of Sources and organises fieldwork expeditions to Haiti, Nigeria, Poland, Mexico and India. The first phase is summarised during a practical seminar in 1980 in Brzezinka and Ostrowina. Grotowski collaborates, among others, with Zmyslowski, Zbigniew Spychalski, Maud Robart and Jean-Claude Garoute, Abani Biswas, Jairo Cuesta, Dibyendu Gangopadhya, Pablo Jimenez, Francois Kahn, Zbigniew Kozlowski, Marek Musial, Katharina Seyferth, and Magdalena Zlotowska; he also works with Leszek Kolankiewicz on an anthology of his texts |
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