Spectacle with no age limit, suggested for audiences 14+
Premiere: June 20 and 21, 2021 at Malta Festival Poznań
Duration: 60 minutes.
Creators
Coproduction: Polish Dance Theatre and bodytalk
Concept and choreography: Yoshiko Waki
Assistant Choreographer: Rene Haustein
Dramaturgy: Rolf Baumgart
Scenography and costumes: Nanako Oizumi
Lights: Przemyslaw Gapczynski, Nanako Oizumi, Dariusz Szych
Live music: Damian Pielka
Performance Assistant: Marcus Bomski
Costume assistant: Adriana Cygankiewicz
Technical manager: Dariusz Szych
Dancers: Evelyn Blue, Kacper Bożek, Momoko Den, Bartosz Dopytalski, Julia Halka, Paulina Jaksim, Patryk Jarczok, Jerzy Kazmierczak, Zbigniew Kocięba, Mateusz Krzysiak, Katarzyna Kulmińska, Dominik Kupka, Daniel Michna, JinWoo NamKung, Katarzyna Rzetelska, Sandra Szatan, Zofia Tomczyk, Emily Wong-Adryanczyk
Songs used: Old Town Road (remix), A. Ross, T. Reznor, K. Roukema, M. L. Hill, B. R. Cyrus, J. Donald | Garbage, #1 Crush time, B. Vig, D. Erikson, S. Manson, S. Marker | Cut Chemist, The Garden, A. Powell, L. Macfadden, R. Gilbert, V. de Moraes | Amon Tobin, Stoney Street | Nine Inch Nails, Ghosts IV - 34, T. Reznor, M. Reznor, R. Atticus | Sergei Prokofiev, Romeo and Juliet, Op.64 - Act 1, Balcony Scene, Romeo's Variation, Love Dance, The Cleveland Orchestra, L. Maazel
Supported by funds from the Ministry of Culture, National Heritage and Sports from the Fund for the Promotion of Culture within the framework of the "Dance" program, implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance, and funds from the Local Government of the Wielkopolska Region.
Translation of the performance into Ukrainian was financed by the LEPSZY ŚWIAT Association within the framework of the project "Support for Ukrainian Refugees" implemented from the OXFAM grant.
Polish Dance Theater and the bodytalk collective juxtapose ecstatic and liberating dance with the suffocating reality of pandemonium. Multiplying the title pair of characters, they simultaneously tell several love stories with the same tragic finale. Building an analogy between the scourge of the coronavirus and the epidemics of Renaissance times, they use a multi-sensory palette of means. Live music, voices ranging from whispering to shouting, carnivalesque costumes and movement exploding with youthful energy - create an expressive space for the most universal of human experiences - love and death. The Traumstadt of the title balances between a city of dreams and a city of traumas, where the eternal need for closeness collides with the compulsion of social distance, condemning loneliness and physical distance.
Gold Yorick for the best Polish staging of Shakespeare's dramas at the 26th Shakespeare Festival 2022.
Marta Kazmierska, Polish Dance Theater on death and closeness in pandemic. This performance must be seen, poznan.wyborcza.pl, June 22, 2021
Maciej Szymkowiak, Polish Dance Theater: "Romeos & Julias Unplagued. Traumstadt". Masked ball with the specter of death in the background, gloswielkopolski.pl, June 25, 2021
Steffen Georgi, bodytalk und das Polski Teatr Tańca überzeugen mit "Romeos & Julias unplagued", tanzweb.org, February 21, 2021
Barbara Kowalewska, Pandemic of Extended Validity, kulturaupodstaw.pl, October 27, 2021
Torben Ibs, Von Ekstase und Tod, tanznetz.de, June 23, 2021
Helmut Jasny, Vor Energie überbordendes Tanztheater, "Westfälische Nachrichten," September 13, 2021
Monika Zmijewska, Romeo, Juliet and the Plague of Coronavirus. Bacchanalia and loneliness at the Days of Contemporary Art, bialystok.wyborcza.pl, May 28, 2022