Locked in a tower


Premiere of the video-performance "Locked in a tower" / "W wieży zamknięta" (Poland)

Creators: CHOREA Theatre

Director: Julia Jakubowska

Video: Norbert Serafin, Małgorzata Arszennik

Editor: Norbert Serafin, Julia Jakubowska

Cast: Joanna Jaworska - Maciaszek, Małgorzata Lipczyńska, Anna Maszewska, Dorota Porowska

Agnieszka Cytacja fotografia: https://agnieszkacytacka.com/

 

Date: 28.08.2020 / Friday /

Time: 7 pm

Place: Fabryka Sztuki in Lodz

Tickets: admission is free, prior booking of free-passes is required

Booking:

Duration: 20 minutes (no intermissions)

Viewers' age: no limitations

 

ONLINE EVENT:

Date of the online video-performance: 28.08.2020 / Friday /

Time: 9 pm

Place: https://www.youtube.com/user/ChoreaTheatre / https://www.facebook.com/retroperspektywy/

Access: free, film available for 6 months

 

LIVE EVENT:

Date of the projection with the audience: 28.08.2020 / Friday /

Time: 9 pm 

Place: Room C_101, Art_Inkubator in Fabryka Sztuki in Lodz

Admission: free, prior booking of free tickets is required

 


DESCRIPTION OF THE PERFORMANCE:

Video-performance, stories, mosaic combined of excerpts of fairy tales of Brothers Grimm, songs and dialogues of Disney interpretations of those tales, excerpts of the story ”Women Who Run With the Wolves” by Clarissa Pinkola Estés and own texts. Women of all ages, with different living conditions, mothers, in relationships and single, will be creating a video-performance with original texts. It is an artistic interpretation of the fate of a modern woman and her struggle. It is a parallel between archetypal representations of women in fairy tales and a modern woman. ”Locked in a Tower” is an analysis of loneliness and sadness, variation on the topic of archetypal models of women known since childhood - from fairy tales and fables. It is a joint creation of a New Tale, search for a modern Princess. Cinderella, Little Mermaid, Snow White, and She Who Knows, She Who Lives at the End of Time. 

A long, long time ago, there was, or maybe not…
A long, long time ago, which has passed away, but shall soon come back…
Beyond seven mountains, beyond seven dwarfs, here behind the crossroads…

INFORMATION ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

Julia Jakubowska - theatre and film actress, physical theatre performer, theatre creator, director. Born in Lodz. In 2010 graduated Cultural and Theatre Studies on the University of Lodz. She works with several independent theatre groups and is an emerging creator. Since 2008 she is a member of CHOREA Theatre Association. She also works as an individual creator and community-art developer in many artistic projects, for example: 'Domestic Inn' - workshops and performance created with the participation of homeless people (2011, 2013), 'Abramka Fest' - community art project and festival dedicated to the poorest communities and streets of the city (2013), 'About Love' - experimental theatre performance still being explored with series of exhibitions, performances and workshops (2014). She cooperates with Stereo Akt Theatre in Budapest (Hungary). Her selected works in Stereo Akt are: 'Promenade - Urban Fate Tourism' (2013), 'Close Encounters of the Different Kind' (2014), 'We Hear You' (2015), 'Etiquette. The Perfect Human' (2016), 'Last Chance Clinic' (2017).

Joanna Jaworska-Maciaszek - dancer, choreographer, actress. She cooperates with O.de.la Theatre in Rzeszów, she has danced in the following productions: "Koniec, początek – soma” / "The end, the beginning – SOMA" (2018), "Macondo" (2010) and "Harey", choreographed by Marta Bury. Dancer of Pracownia Fizyczna (Physical Studio), run by Jacek Owczarek in Lodz. During the work of the group, she has danced in the performances "Meandrująca rzeka” / ”Meandering River", "A3" and "Re:akcja” / ”Re:action", presented at the Polish Dance Platform. She has cooperated with choreographers from Poland and abroad, among others as a dancer with Rosanna Gamson World Wide (Los Angeles), as an assistant to choreographer Robert M. Hayden in the second installment of the "Oratorium Dance Project" of the CHOREA Theatre, in the performative project "Topologie” / ”Topologies" by the French group Les gens d'Uterpan. Originator of the performance "ĆMY" / ”MOTHS”, which she created together with three dancers of Pracownia Fizyczna. Dancer in the performance "Matryca [Prześwit 1/8]" / ”Stencil [Clearance 1/8]", directed by Paweł Grala, awarded in ”The Best Off” competition for the best Polish independent theatre performance. She created the choreography for the performance “2.0.4.5. Miniopera metafizyczna” / "2.0.4.5. Metaphysical mini-opera” of the CHOREA Theatre directed by Tomasz Rodowicz. Co-organizer of interdisciplinary improvisation meetings KIPISZ in Lodz. She teaches dance and movement. She performs, improvises, and as far as dance is concerned, she is fascinated in intuition, energy flow, and work on conscious being in her own body.

Małgorzata Lipczyńska - actress, dancer, choreographer, culture animator and pedagogue. Born in Zamosc. Lives in Lodz. Graduated from Social and Cultural Studies on UMCS University in Lublin (Poland). Dancer in the 'Labyrinth Dances' group. Co-founder and member of CHOREA Theatre Association. In 2006-2008 worked as choreographer, theatre and dance workshop instructor in Juliusz Osterwa Theatre in Lublin. As an actress, dancer and performer she cocreated many interdisciplinary theatre and artistic projects, for example: 'maProject' (international dance project in Vilnus, Lithuania), 'Kukła-Kantor/Remix' (neTTheatre, Lublin), 'Project Mermaids' (dir. Gerald Tyler, Warsaw), 'From the other side' (Korniag Theatre, Minsk). In 2011 she created her monodrama performance „forsuremaybe”, based on texts of Romanian writer Aglaia Veteranyi. She also worked as a dance instructor in creating an awarded CHOREA Theatre musical and dance performance 'Oratorium Dance Project'. Since 2012 she cooperates as dancer, writer and choreographer with KIJO Dance Theatre - a contemporary dance formation. She is an experienced theatre and dance workshop leader. She cooperates with the Warsaw University andInstitute of Polish Culture in Warsaw as a theatre instructor.

Anna Maszewska - actress, coordinator of artistic and entertainment events with high commercial potential. Since 2015, she has been involved in the production of cultural events as well as film and theatre education. A graduate of Cultural Studies with a specialization in Film Studies at the University of Lodz, and a student at the Faculty of Film Art Organization in Lodz Film School. In 2011-2015 she was an actress in ab'Teatr theatre group. In 2015 she worked as a coordinator at the 20th European Cinema Forum ORLEN Cinergia, and as a leader and an actress in Take Over theater group, working in CHOREA Theatre in Lodz. In 2016 she was a coordinator of the Skoda Mobile Cinema, organized as part of the Transatlantyk Festival. In 2016-2017 she worked as a production coordinator in art and event agency Ferment Kolektiv in Poznan, creating - among others - such projects as: 'Animator On Tour', 'Film Summer with Orange', and accompanying events during the 43rd Forum on the Cinema. In 2017 she was a production coordinator on the 22nd Forum of the European Cinema.

Dorota Porowska - actress, theatre director, choreographer, theatre workshop instructor, academic lecturer. Leading member of Centre for Theatre Practices 'Gardzienice' in 1984-2003. Leader of theatrical workshops in Royal Shakespeare Company, at the Acting Departments Columbia on Stanford University and in the Institute of Meyerhold in Moscow. In 2002 co-created a dance group 'Labyrinth Dances'. CHOREA Theatre Association co-founder and member since 2004. Constantly works as an educator running workshops for students of theater and cultural studies at the Universities in Poznan, Lodz, Wroclaw, Lublin, Warsaw and School of Theater in Liège (Belgium). In her artistic biography, apart from acting and directing theatre performances, she is occupied with analytical work on human creativity and perception, and the mechanisms which control our way of being in a separated space dedicated to the creative act. It is an unusual and very concrete space, natural for everyone, and it is worth visiting.... from time to time.

 

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