the effect of the annual workshop with a theater group led by the actor of the Kana Theater.
Each of us carries an inner story. A tale. A mystery. Each of us tries to hear it inside. And to deafen it as quickly as possible. Sometimes by dancing, sometimes by shouting, sometimes by staying silent, sometimes by barking, sometimes by running, sometimes by dyeing, sometimes by laughing. Sometimes, to sweep under the rug. To express it is the most difficult option. The performance, which arose from our conversations, letters, memories, but also from our disappointments, anger and discord, is an attempt to exorcise our lives – to bring to the surface what we struggle with in loneliness. It is also our own manifesto – infused with mockery and grotesque – against artificial gravity, forms, norms, pressures and orders to which we are subjected every day. Against good advice, forced smiles, dictates of style and beauty, demons of adulthood. It is our cry to hear our music. It is an invitation to our "acacia" party. Spikes of acacia do hurt, but the extract from its flowers relieves the pain of injury if rubbed into skin. Acacia incense stimulates forces dormant in the psyche. And acacia brew brings prophetic dreams.
cast: Julia Bardyga, Milena Hovsepyan, Amelia Izdebska, Karolina Jaz, Julia Nowowiejska, Hubert Ostrowski, Paulina Pruszyńska, Helena Sinecka, Julia Wachnik, Maciej Witkowski, Martyna Zawada
diercted by: Marta Giers
coperation: Janek Turkowski, Marta Poniatowska
light directed and technical support: Tomasz Grygier
premiere: 4 kwietnia 2019 r.
duration: 45 minut
poster: Helena Sinecka
YOUNG KANA, or THE FESTIVAL’S PROLOGUE
This year’s Bonds of Culture Festival will take a form of meetings – divided on particular days – with the most important directions and areas in which we try to move during the year-round activities of the Centre. The Festival will present activities that are especially important and close to each of us. In Poland we celebrate the Children’s Day on June 1st; thus it is not a coincidence that at the beginning of this month (to be precise: during the last May/the first June weekend), we want to present our youngest Child – productions made by two youth groups active in the Kana: t.kanka and Połowisko. Both performances were constructed as a result of workshops, meetings, diagnoses, group processes and individual discoveries that took place at work on Kana’s floor – both are also our symbolic birthday gift for Zygmunt Duczyński (born on June 2nd), who was always the most interested in everything that was young, new, unpredictable, wandering, risky, open to life and curious about the world.
the effect of the annual workshop with a theater group led by the actor of the Kana Theater.
Each of us carries an inner story. A tale. A mystery. Each of us tries to hear it inside. And to deafen it as quickly as possible. Sometimes by dancing, sometimes by shouting, sometimes by staying silent, sometimes by barking, sometimes by running, sometimes by dyeing, sometimes by laughing. Sometimes, to sweep under the rug. To express it is the most difficult option. The performance, which arose from our conversations, letters, memories, but also from our disappointments, anger and discord, is an attempt to exorcise our lives – to bring to the surface what we struggle with in loneliness. It is also our own manifesto – infused with mockery and grotesque – against artificial gravity, forms, norms, pressures and orders to which we are subjected every day. Against good advice, forced smiles, dictates of style and beauty, demons of adulthood. It is our cry to hear our music. It is an invitation to our "acacia" party. Spikes of acacia do hurt, but the extract from its flowers relieves the pain of injury if rubbed into skin. Acacia incense stimulates forces dormant in the psyche. And acacia brew brings prophetic dreams.
cast: Julia Bardyga, Milena Hovsepyan, Amelia Izdebska, Karolina Jaz, Julia Nowowiejska, Hubert Ostrowski, Paulina Pruszyńska, Helena Sinecka, Julia Wachnik, Maciej Witkowski, Martyna Zawada
diercted by: Marta Giers
coperation: Janek Turkowski, Marta Poniatowska
light directed and technical support: Tomasz Grygier
premiere: 4 kwietnia 2019 r.
duration: 45 minut
poster: Helena Sinecka
YOUNG KANA, or THE FESTIVAL’S PROLOGUE
This year’s Bonds of Culture Festival will take a form of meetings – divided on particular days – with the most important directions and areas in which we try to move during the year-round activities of the Centre. The Festival will present activities that are especially important and close to each of us. In Poland we celebrate the Children’s Day on June 1st; thus it is not a coincidence that at the beginning of this month (to be precise: during the last May/the first June weekend), we want to present our youngest Child – productions made by two youth groups active in the Kana: t.kanka and Połowisko. Both performances were constructed as a result of workshops, meetings, diagnoses, group processes and individual discoveries that took place at work on Kana’s floor – both are also our symbolic birthday gift for Zygmunt Duczyński (born on June 2nd), who was always the most interested in everything that was young, new, unpredictable, wandering, risky, open to life and curious about the world.