More than one specimen
Performance "More than one specimen" / "Więcej niż jedno zwierzę" (Poland)
Creators: STUDIO Theatregallery
Director: Robert Wasiewicz
Dramaturgy: Marcin Miętus
Costumes: Tomasz Armada
Music: Michał Skrok
Cooperation: Witek Orski, Maria Toboła
Lector: Agnieszka Podsiadlik
Cast: Sonia Roszczuk, Robert Wasiewicz, Vira Hres, Marcin Miętus, Błażej Stencel, Agata Tragarz
Premiere: 12.09.2019
The performance was created with the support of the Centrum Kultury in Piaseczno.
Recording of the performance and editing: HOLLYBABA / Rami Shaya
Sound editing: Paweł Odorowicz / Endless Tree Production
Camera operators: Rami Shaya, Wojciech Kamerys, Tomasz Jimmy Kowalski
Duration: 70 minutes (no intermissions)
Viewers' age: 15 +
ONLINE EVENT:
Date of the online performance: 25.08.2020 / Tuesday /
Time: 7 pm
Place: https://www.youtube.com/user/ChoreaTheatre / https://www.facebook.com/retroperspektywy/
Access: free, film available for 36 hours
Language: Polish / Subtitles: English
After the event we invite the viewers to an online meeting and discussion with the artists (Q&A formula).
The discussion will be held in Polish.
Place: https://www.facebook.com/retroperspektywy/
LIVE EVENT:
Date of the live performance with the audience: 24.08.2020 / Monday /
Time: 7 pm
Place: Stage in Art_Inkubator in Fabryka Sztuki in Lodz
Admission: free, prior booking of free tickets is required
DESCRIPTION OF THE PERFORMANCE:
"More than one specimen" combines nature mockument with an emotional concert of pop music. Inspired by the world of wild animals and the performers’ own experience, the project aims to overcome the traditional narratives known from famous TV nature series. Instead of praising the family as a basic nature foundation filled with images of strong mates dominating females or brutal hunting scenes, the collective group of performers propose different topics and visions of the natural world: radical matriarchate of elephants, gender-fluent fish and incomprehensible empathy of some predatory animals.
The performance reverses our typical attitude towards animals: it does not try to humanize them, but rather wonders what we can learn from them. In ‘More than one specimen’, human fatigue and human perspective provoke us to study nature. To create a new herd.
INFORMATION ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
STUDIO Theatregallery is a creative venue hosting innovative experiments produced by artists representing a range of disciplines. In line with its avant-garde traditions, and with Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz as its patron, STUDIO has become a space for free expression, where different disciplines of art intersect and interact – including theatre, visual arts, music and film. In line with Witkacy's Theory of Pure Form, artists are offered the opportunity to perform aesthetic experiments.
STUDIO does not produce a fixed programme, being a PLACE for thinking in ways different to the reality imposed upon us by politicians. STUDIO aims to change this reality. Our starting point is to question the future of artistic theatre in Poland and Europe and, more precisely, the ways in which it can justify its existence in present-day social, economic and political environments.
STUDIO is an open and democratic space with no privileged entities. The same principles apply to all, and everyone is free to choose the topics and artistic means they wish to engage with. It is concepts, not conventions, which matter to us. There is no room here for ego trips, but for partnership working instead. The STUDIO actor is a mindful artist whose role is not limited to being a basic element of the staging.
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