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Principles of Work
The Atelier (Studio) of the Polish Dance Theatre - stage of searches and debuts - was established in 1999. It comprises of a group of young dancers who seek new paths of artistic activity, equally in technique as in creativity: choreographic, scenographic and compositional.
The principal aim of the Atelier is the popularisation of art as a powerful means of communication. Combining dance, theatre, visual art and music, members of the studio seek to reach out to the spectator through signals that are the most easily understandable by man and closest to his nature. Seeking the widest possible audience the Atelier also wishes to perform its shows in unconventional spaces, making possible the contact between their art and people who have limited access to it. The Atelier of the Polish Dance Theatre had its debut at the MALTA theatre festival in Poznan in June 2000 with the performance Impunity - What a Reality choreographed by Anna Kolek.
As the creators themselves declare, it is the informality characteristic of this enterprise, this meeting with an audience that rarely sees dance, and the fact that they have been able to arouse interest in dance as a means of communication, which decided that the idea of a studio be continued.
The IDEM design group, comprised of young designers - graduates of art colleges in Poland and abroad, collaborates with the scenic-design section of the Atelier. The work of the Atelier is under the formal supervision of the Polish Dance Theatre whose director, Ewa Wycichowska, is its artistic advisor.
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Repertoire
"Dancing Hz"
Choreography: Paulina Wycichowska
Concept: Marcin Liber
Music: Envee
Costumes: Viola ¦piechowicz - Odziezowe Pole
Premiere: 29.6.2002.
Duration: Approx. 40 minutes
“Dancing Hz is a performance in which the real, common, world weaves together with the world of magic and mystery. This is a humorous and ironic performance even though it basically talks about tragic occurrences. Consequently, as in previous performances within the sphere of my artistic interest, there is the contemporary human being with his or her desire for love, terror in the face of loneliness and fright at the passing of time, which fades like the fame and memory of great dancing stars.”
Marcin Liber.
„Game I. Time”
Choreography: Iwona Pasińska
Music: Andrzej Karpiński - REPORTAŻ
Sets: Izabela Gustowska
Premiere: 21.11.2002.
Duration: 30 minutes
„If you love - kill”
Choreography: Elwira Piorun
Music electronic: Grzegosz Ochęduszko
Scenario: Włodzimierz Kaczkowski
Scenography and costumes: Lucyna Riege
Premiere: 23.01.2005.
Duration: 50 minutes
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„... szparagijem”
Choreography: Andrzej Adamczak
Music: A. Vivaldi, P. Lopez Vidal, J. Brel, Ch. Navarro
Scenography: Mariusz Szmytkowski
Premiere: 23.11.2002.
Duration: 50 minutes
„Stop - non - stop”
Choreography: Paulina Wycichowska
Music: Europa String Choir, Steve Reich, Buta Raga
Costumes: Idem Agency
Premiere: 10.02.2001.
Duration: 53 minutes
„Paulina Wycichowska invites the spectators to a play of associations. On the stage is placed something like an obstacle course: a balancing seesaw, glass aquarium, metal barriers. Struggles in the crossing of limits take place on this exercise ground. Here we lose the feeling that we are watching dancers performing. We rather observe a group of people submerged in concrete activity. They dance - this is true. The dance clearly serves them however in the direct expression of thought and feeling, in mutual communication. In effect also in communicating wich the spectator. It is dificult to speak here of stylistic unity - each of the dancers seems to use a personal code of movement, the characters are individualised, separate. These codes grow out of the very different styles and personalities of the dancers. They fascinate with the beauty of pure dance, but not only with this - also with the power, intensity and suggestiveness of their communication.”
Ewa Obrębowska-Piasecka, „Stop - non – stop”, Gazeta Wyborcza
The Atelier group also run workshops in techniques of contemporary dance at various Polish centres.
Contact
Kozia Street 4, 61-835 Poznań
tel. (061) 8524008
fax. (061) 8532370
e-mail: ttanca@trurl.info.com.pl
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