Premiere: February 25, 2020
Duration: 55 min
Creators:
Choreography and direction: Marta Ziółek
Assistant choreographer, choreographic collaboration: Wojciech Grudzinski
Texts and dramaturgy: Anka Herbut
Music: Lubomir Grzelak
Visuals: Rafal Dominik
Costumes: Tomasz Armada
Light direction: Aleksandr Prowalinski
Performance: Karolina Sobel
Performance Assistant: Paulina Jaksim
Choreographic collaboration: Magdalena Marcinkowska (voguing), Piotr ZONTA Król (krump)
Technical director: Dariusz Szych
Dancers: Alicja Augustynek, Evelyn Blue, Maksymilian Bando, Kacper Bożek, Momoko Den, Julia Halka, Paulina Jaksim, Patryk Jarczok, Jerzy Kazmierczak, Zbigniew Kocięba, Dominik Kupka, Daniel Michna, JinWoo NamKung, Katarzyna Rzetelska, Sandra Szatan, Emily Wong-Adryanczyk
The play evokes the phenomenon of choreomania - dance epidemics that have infected the inhabitants of various corners of Europe since the Middle Ages - inducing a possessive trance. It reveals the passion of dance as a kind of poisoning that permeates the dancers' biographies and their physically consuming bodies. It also proves the power of community dance, resembling mania in the intensity of movement expression. It affirms the liberating power of dance, which like an "unapologetic virus in the social fabric" has the power to manifest disparate identities. Poison is an irrepressible patchwork of diverse dance techniques: from ballet to voguing.
TRAILER
.The play was ranked as one of the best plays of the 2019/2020 season by "Theater" magazine.
The show contains loud sounds that may not be suitable for young children and noise-sensitive people. Strobe effects are used during the performance, which may induce epileptic attacks in people sensitive to flashing lights.
Spectation suggested for audiences 14+
.Do pobrania
Katarzyna Nowicka, Dance about dance, kulturapoznan.pl, February 26, 2020
.Joanna Brych, Ballroom in a dance theater,Politics, March 3, 2020.
Mike Urbaniak, Dance Epidemic, Vogue, March 4, 2020
.Barbara Kovalevskaya, Dance in times of pestilence, Culture at the Core, March 6, 2020.
Teresa Fazan, Dance Virus, Publishers Weekly, March 2020
.Justina Machaj, Rave till the grave, Theatralia, April 19, 2020.
