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Polish Dance Theatre (Poznań)

“Jesień — Nuembir”
“Mat”

17. 11. 2009 – Tuesday
6 pm
OPUS, ul. Łąkowa 29

photo. Mirka Maruszak

About Christian Culture Festival

Christian Culture Festival was organized for the first time in 1997 on 10th Anniversary of the Logos Theatre. In a sense, it extends the idea of Christian Culture Weeks organized in Poland in 70s and 80s of the last century, which were to become counterpoise to lay media model promoted by the State. Lodz Christian Culture Days were organized in churches all around the city, so as to accommodate the artists, spectacles, exhibitions and projections.

One of such places was the John Paul lecture theatre in the vault of the Assumption of Holy Mother Church in Kościelna Street. This is where the Logos Theatre started, before it was moved to the church in Maria Skłodowska-Curie. It was this church that Archbishop Władysław Ziółek gave to the Lodz artists in 1993, and in which the Centre of Creative Communities’ of Lodz Archdiocese was appointed. It is here that the ‘logistic’ centre of the Festival is located, and where some of the Festival events take place.

Traditionally, the Festival takes place in November, on the first Sunday after All Soul’s Day. It usually lasts for two weeks, during which various event take place – spectacle premiers, other theatres come to Lodz, there are exhibitions of invited artists, performances of choirs and musicians, very often not to be seen anywhere else in Poland at any other time. The Festival programme is the result of the whole year’s work of rev. Waldemar Sondka, the Festival Director, who – using his contacts – invites artists who are interesting, out of the ordinary, noteworthy and creating art perhaps not always religious, but always searching and at the highest level. Care for the level of the Festival offers is a permanent rule, the Logos environment has always wished to provide the Lodz citizens with the possibility of contact with art deprived of parochialism, open to the man and as perfect formally as possible.

The Festival is not an activity that brings profit. Any entrance cards are issued as invitations that are free of charge, and the team of the Logos Theatre and all the people engaged in the Festival organization, act as volunteers. This does not mean that Christian Culture Festival costs nothing. On the contrary, to organize such a cultural event at appropriate level is always connected with costs. Rev. Waldemar Sondka deals with organizing means to secure the Festival events all year round. He manages to gain sponsors (without whom the Festival would not exist) and subsidies from institutions that deal with funding culture (without which the Festival could not develop). All that in order to realize the basic idea of the event that derived from the Lodz Christian Culture Days – to enable anyone who wishes and needs that, to live the Mystery through art. This idea assumes a free of charge participation in all the artistic events, which has been the case since the very beginning of the Festival until today, the only condition is that on the day of the Festival opening, one must queue as long as it takes to get invitations. The only limit to the number of invitations is the capacity of rooms in which the events are organized every day throughout the two weeks of the Festival.


 

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“Jesień — Nuembir”

Choreography: Jacek Przybyłowicz
Costumes: Adriana Cygankiewicz
Music: collage

Cast:
Andrzej Adamczak, Karina Adamczak-Kasprzak, Agata Ambrozińska-Rachuta, Agnieszka Błacha, Szymon Halik, Kasia Kowalska, Anna Marek, Bartłomiej Raźnikiewicz, Daniel Stryjecki, Paulina Wycichowska

“Autumn Nuembir” is the third Jacek Przybyłowicz’s realization at Polish Dance Theatre after “Dove’s necklace” and “Barocco”. The artist connected with Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company for many years, consistently penetrates intercultural relations in contact with the language of contemporary dance and music tradition, as well as in classical genesis, and ethnic. Inspiration for the “Autumn — Nuembir” performance are rituals of the Berberian tribes who live in the Atlas mountains. “Nuembir” means November, the symbolic time of lapse, which — in JacekPrzybyłowicz’s conception — refers to (maybe first of all) the autumn of human being’s life, dancer’s…

“Autumn — Nuembir” in the next in the cycle: “4 season of the year”, which creation began in 2007 at Polish Dance Theatre.

“Autumn — Nuembir”

It is wonderful feast for the dance theaters’ admirers! The newest Jacek Przybyłowicz’s performance is an excellent, very dynamic connection between sounds of ethnic music and contemporary dance. “Autumn — Nuembir” simple delight. Przybyłowicz is using the most modern forms of expression. The effect of this intervention is really sensational, inspired by the rituals of berberian tribes who lived in the Atlas mountains. Przybyłowicz designs very dynamic, fresh choreographical configurations. We deal here with an unusual element of energy, sudden awakening, characteristic more for spring than autumn.

Jacek Przybyłowicz’s November — is not a month of stagnation. We are witnesses of a passage to winter, but it is not a smooth passing. Just the opposite — changes here have dynamic world movements. The fact that performance is based on ethnic, that it touches some unknown traditions, is something undeniable. Both, music being a collage of sounds, uniting itself ideally with the dance, but somewhat cut out from a foreign music tradition, together with the costumes of Adriana Cygankiewicz, bring some distant culture to the mind. For the creator of a spectacle “Autumn — Nuembir” is a certain kind of a deep metaphor of the process of changes, which take place in the life of each man, particularly a dancer. This is another step before, towards the future.
Tutej.pl, Magda Wójcicka, 21 November 2008

Each civilization which in the past penetrated the territories of present Morocco left seeds of its culture, which influenced music and dance. Apparently there are influences of Arabic culture where poetic form is cultivated till now in the high parts of the Atlas mountains. Choir singing remind Christian psalms. The characteristic form of the Berbers inhabiting the Atlas mountains, is impetuous scan with rhythmic blows in bendirs — large flat drums with goat leather, whose sound connected two worlds: human and the dead.

Before Islam, the Berberian music referred to nature: to springs and holy trees, cult stones and solar circles, to the changes of the Moon and fertility. After Islam has been introduced in Morocco, songs and rhythms has not changed, but in the melodiously recited poems, solar divinity was substituted by the name of the almighty God Allah, the sacred character of music has been preserved. There are also points of reference to everyday life with all its richness.

For the Highlanders from the Atlas mountains, dance is a joyful form of expressing the end of every stage of life in a certain community. Summer season is begun by a dance and finishes plentiful crop. Visits of guests, births, wedding, circumcision, and other important events in the Iife of a certain community are commemorated by dancing.
Julita Baś, The rites of Barbarians from High Atlas, Dialog, Warszawa 2001

Jacek Przybyłowicz

He is a graduate of National Ballet School in Warsaw and Frederick Chopin Music Academy in Warsaw (ballet pedagogy). He began his career in 1987 at Polish National Opera in Warsaw.

In 1991 for “Negotiations”, his debut choreography, he received the first reward at 2nd National Choreographical Contest in Łódź. In the same year he started work at Dortmunder Ballet in Germany. In 1994 — 2001, as a soloist of Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Companys in Israel, he danced in choreographies of e.g. Mats Eka, Ohad Naharina, Jiri Kylian, Daniel Ezralow and Rami Be'er's. He has also co-operated with Baatsheva Dance Company as part of Yair Shapiro Dance Price and kept developing his choreographic interests.

After coming back to Poland in 2003, he prepared “Dove's necklace” for Polish Dance Theatre and a year later “Barocco”, as a special order of Biennale de la Danse de Lyon. Polish Dance Theatre has presented both performances at numerous international festivals e.g. Bolzano Danza in Italy, Recontres Choregraphiques de Carthage in Tunisia Internationales Tanzfestiyal Kassel in Germany, Footlight Moscow in Russia.

Between 2005 — 2007, Jacek Przybyłowicz prepared “A few short sequences” for National Theater — Polish National Opera with Katarzyna Kozera's video stage decorations, “Alpha Kryonia XE” and III Symphony “Song about night” in Szymanowski evening.

Three times he has received artistic scholarship of Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.

“Mat”

Choreography and creation: Paweł Malicki
Music: Yann Tiersen, Blutech, Haug Halvor
Stage design: Ewa Mróz
Costumes: Paweł Malicki

Premiere: 20. 02. 2009

Atmosphere of Paweł Malicki’s performance is a world full of emotions. When we give ourselves completely to someone, we use our own “me” and capability of “self breathing”.

even closer
even greater
even more
surfeit
violence
glimmer
..checkmate!
P. M.