The show has no age restrictions, recommended for viewers 14+
Duration: 70 min
REPUBLIC OF DREAMS
based on stories by Bruno Schulz
script and direction - IGOR GORZKOWSKI
dramaturgy of the living word - AGATA MASTALERZ
choreography - IWONA PASIŃSKA
performance assistant - JERZY KAŹMIERCZAK
music - ERICK FRIEDLANDER, DAVID KRAKAUER, RABBINICAL SCHOOL DROPOUTS, JAMIE SAFT, YVES WEYH, JOHN ZORN
set design - ANDRZEJ GRABOWSKI
costumes - ADRIANA CYGANKIEWICZ, ANDRZEJ GRABOWSKI
light production - DOMINIK DUDEK, PRZEMYSŁAW GAPCZYŃSKI
sound production - MICHAŁ BESZCZYŃSKI, ZUZANNA MAJEWSKA
technical management - DARIUSZ SZYCH
stage staff - KRZYSZTOF LUDWICZAK
production coordination - MAŁGORZATA MIKOŁAJCZAK
poster - PIOTR ZDANOWICZ
creation - ARTISTS-DANCERS OF THE POLISH DANCE THEATER:
JERZY KAŹMIERCZAK - Father
JULIA HAŁKA - Mother / Józef from the story Dodo
ALEKSANDRA KUŚ - Adela
ZBIGNIEW KOCIĘBA - Józef from the story Sanatorium Pod Klepsydrą
BARTOSZ DOPYTALSKI - Dodo / Józef from the story Edzio
DOMINIK KUPKA - Doctor Gotard / Hieronim / Józef from the story Treatise on Mannequins or the Second Book of Genesis
MOMOKO DEN - Nurse
SANDRA SZATAN - Perazja / Józef from the story Birds / Józef from the story Street of Crocodiles
ZOFIA TOMCZYK - Retycja / Józef from the story "Ptaki".
KACPER BOŻEK - Edzio / Józef from the story Karakony / Józef from the story Treatise on Mannequins or the Second Book of Genesis
EVELYN BLUE - Bianka
MATEUSZ KRZYSIAK - Józef from the story Spring
The performance featured music by artists from John Zorn's Tzadik Records label in the Radical Jewish Culture series:
John Zorn
"Sheloshim", "Mahlah", from the album "Bar Kokhba Masada Chamber Ensambles"
"Teqiah", "Ruan", "Deseo", "Olvido", from the album "Film Works VIII"
"Trembling Before God", from the album "Film Works IX"
"Prelude of Light", from the album "The Gnostic Preludes"
Yves Weyh
"La Chêvre", "Wolf's Gang", from the album "Zakarya"
David Krakauer
"Der Gasn Nign", from the album "Music From The Winery"
Rabbinical School Dropouts
"Integretron", from the album "Cosmic Tree"
Erik Friedlander
"Batzal", from the album "Grains of Paradise" | Composition and performance by Erick Freidlnder, used with permission of ErikFriedlander.com
Jamie Saft
"Chet", "Blood on the Door", "Aveira Dub", from the album "Breadcrumb sins"
The performance is in Polish with translation into Ukrainian available.
The show has no age restrictions, recommended for viewers 14+
Duration: 65 min
Premiere: November 16, 2023, as part of the program of the 50th anniversary of the Polish Dance Theater
The performance based on Bruno Schulz's stories invites you to the abandoned and strange space-time space of the Hourglass Sanatorium. The residents are subjected to a specific treatment: turning back time by one interval causes people who in the real world are considered dead to remain in suspension, stopping on the border between life and death. The authors of "The Republic of Dreams" construct an illusory world from fleeting visions governed by dream logic, where every desire can still come true. Using the poetic word as an impulse to create movement, and painting with light in the "mysterious fluid of darkness", they debunk the myth that Schulz's prose is inaccessible to the theater.
The premiere of the play "Republic of Dreams" is part of the celebration of the 50th anniversary season at the Polish Dance Theater, which will last until the end of June 2024.
"Instincts" - a performance from the current of new choreography - draws inspiration from the intertwining of wildness of nature and man. Its central premise is the desire to share with the audience the beauty and uniqueness of natural phenomena, and to encourage them to look at the surrounding reality as a space of magic and beautiful relationships.
Co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund - a state earmarked fund, as part of the "Dance" program implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance
Co-financed by the Greater Poland Voivodeship Government
Honorary patronage of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, prof. Piotr Gliński
Honorary patronage of the Marshal of the Greater Poland Voivodeship, Marek Woźniak
Honorary patronage of the Mayor of Poznań, Jacek Jaśkowiak
Honorary patronage of the National Institute of Music and Dance
Piotr Dobrowolski, Kaleidoscope of imagination, IKS, December 2023