Choreography
MAY(WE)? Small Causative Act
Description
The dance theatre performance “MAY(WE)?”, which we define as a Small Causative Act, is an act of collective expression, a creative response to the socio-political reality that concerns and affects us. Taking a stand in artistic creation is related to the need for change. It results from the belief in the transformative power of art. The performance was created at the Faculty of Dance Theatre in Bytom as part of the research project “Lemko Odyssey” under the direction of Adriana Świątek and Sylwia Hefczyńska-Lewandowska. Searching for a creative method in the integrated field of anthropology of experience and dance theatre, based on extensive material collected during field exploration in the Lemko region (2018-2024), we attempted to integrate experiences. The material of the performance is embodied experience. The dramaturgical layer is focused around the key categories: exodus, liminality, sacred/profane, the Other, nature/culture, border, dialogue. Link to informations about performance and research project: https://www.ast.bytom.pl/spektakle/mozemy-maly-akt-sprawczy/
Artist's/band's artistic biography
SYLWIA HEFCZYŃSKA-LEWANDOWSKA | Dancer, choreographer, lecturer and vice-dean of the Faculty of Dance Theatre in Bytom, Academy of Theatre Arts in Cracow. Prepares and conducts research projects in the area of the theatre and dance art aimed at broadly understood development through art, engaging students of art schools. Constantly initiates new directions of international and inter-university cooperation taking into account interdisciplinarity and interculturality. In the years 1995-2012 a dancer of the Silesian Dance Theatre. Expert in the field of Polish Contemporary Dance Technique. After 2012 an independent artist, author of choreography and performer in dance theatre and drama theatre performances. Together with Adriana Świątek, prepares and conducts research and creative projects in the integrated field of anthropology of experience and dance theatre. An important part of her artistic and pedagogical activity are social projects implemented with people from excluded communities, within which she creates full-scale dance theatre performances. ADRIANA ŚWIĄTEK | Doctor of Humanities (PhD), anthropologist of cultural performance and anthropologist of experience, theater theorist, assistant professor at the Faculty of Dance Theatre in Bytom, at the National Academy of Theater Arts in Cracow (Poland). In 2011-2017 she carried out the research project "SLAVDOM! EXPEDITION" at the University of Silesia in Katowice (Poland), devoted to research on the Hutsul wedding ritual from the perspective of the theory of cultural performance. Author of the monograph "Hutsul wedding peregrinations. Wedding ceremony as a cultural performance" (2020) and co-author of the publication "Teatrology at crossroads" (2017). Author of numerous photographic reportages. The series Pilgrims and Hutsuls were presented in the final of the Urban Street Photo Awards + Exhibition, in the special section Stories & Portfolios. Together with Sylwia Hefczyńska-Lewandowska, she carries out research and creative projects in the integrated area of anthropology of experience and dance theatre. ANDRZEJ JÓZEFCZYK He moves skillfully in the field of both traditional and electronic music. He is the winner of a special award at the True Musicians Tournament (2023) at the Szczecin Philharmonic and the author of an engineering thesis in the field of Music Information Retrieval, addressing the topic of music analysis using artificial intelligence algorithms (Wrocław University of Technology, 2021). He collaborated with Ania Broda (traditional and electronic music), as well as Dana Vynnytsa in the ethno jazz project and the band "Małe instrumenty" (Wrocław). As part of the Polish Radio New Tradition 2025 festival - for the Non-adaptive Dance Music project, together with Maria Stępień, he was honored with the National Institute of Music and Dance award and the award of the editorial office of "Czwórka" of Polish Radio.
Full performance recording
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26/01/2025
Duration:
47 minut
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