Spectacle suggested for audiences 14+
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Premiere: February 25, 2022
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
Direction of lights: Aleksandr Prowalinski
Making of: Karolina Sobel
Performance Assistant: Paulina Jaksim
Choreographic collaboration: Magdalena Marcinkowska (voguing), Piotr ZONTA Król (krump)
Technical director: Dariusz Szych
Dancer-artists: 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-Adryan
.Premiere cast: Amy Basely, Evelyn Blue, Kacper Bożek, Julia Halka, Paulina Jaksim, Patryk Jarczok, Katarzyna Kulmińska, Dominik Kupka, Paweł Malicki, Daniel Michna, Michał Przybyła, Adrian Radwański, 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 intoxication permeating 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.
The play has been ranked among the best performances of the 2019/2020 season by "Theater" magazine.
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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 Kowalewska, Dance in times of pestilence, Culture at the Core, March 6, 2020
.Teresa Fazan, Dance Virus, Publishers Weekly, March 2020
.Justyna Machaj,Rave till the grave, Teatralia, April 19, 2020
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