Premiere: May 26, 2017
Duration: 55 min
Creators:
Conception, dramaturgy and direction: Aleksandra Dziurosz, Tomasz Szczepanek
Choreography: Aleksandra Dziurosz and the Polish Dance Theater company
Music: Aldona Nawrocka
Costumes and stage design: Iga Kowalczuk
Light direction: Karolina Gębska
Assistant Choreographer: Paulina Jaksim
Assistant costume designer: Natalia Rejszel
Technical director: Dariusz Szych
Dancers: Alicja Augustynek, Evelyn Blue, Kacper Bożek, Momoko Den, Bartosz Dopytalski, Julia Halka, Julia Hnatów, Patryk Jarczok, Jerzy Kazmierczak, Zbigniew Kocięba, Daniel Michna, JinWoo NamKung, Sandra Szatan, Emily Wong-Adryanczyk
The artists create on stage a new ritual of saying goodbye to the dead. This is an attempt to tame the process of dying, relegated by modernity to the margins of collective consciousness. Dialoguing with the second part of Adam Mickiewicz's Dziady (Forefathers' Eve), they consider what someone else's death means to us, the living. For us as individuals, and for us as a society. The intersection of two perspectives - group and individual - prompts another question: what can we, the living, know about death?
The production of the play was subsidized by funds from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.
The play received the Reporters Award at the XXV Jubilee Festival "Clash of Theaters" (Klodzko, 2019)
Spectation suggested for viewers aged 16 and older
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Alicja Müller, Guslar rituals and goblin dances. On choreographic adaptations of "Dziady" and "Wesele," New Inscription Every Week, 2020, no. 70.
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