Choreography
Magic Blow
Description
"She sowed a poppy, she didn't know how. And the grandfather knew did not say, because after dopes he sat dead." Poland, 201X. The Afterburn Epidemic. The Chief Sanitary Inspectorate raps about their harmfulness and a new trend of anti-drug poetry is spreading in schools across Poland, in the form of contests.
"At the top roses, at the bottom a corpse. They'll include your grave in the price of dopes" - we go back in memory to the times when dop stores sprang up like mushrooms after the rain, and Lamignat and Cherry Coccolino papers were a permanent part of the landscape of Plebiscytowa Street in Katowice. We would like to invite you to Plebi - our former apartment next to Energy 2000, to the Funny Stuff store. The history of the street and its inhabitants, emerging from urban legends, tripraports, reports, articles and the fabric of the city, reworked into a sum of flashbacks and moving images. At its center is a huge red hashtag - a symbol of the war between the passive power apparatus of the metropolitan capital and the merchants of death. Placed by the city's mayor in front of the store's entrance as a barrier to stop the consumption of dopes by thrill-hungry collectors.
In the GIS video on legal highs, we see interviews with addicts interspersed with videos of club parties. Not explicitly, but the cruise is reduced to junkies. We enter into a polemic with the narrative of Polish drug policy convinced that night parties in urbexes and the depths of musty basements are all about trance dancing and music. These are the values of Peace Love Unity Respect. It's a new ritual that can save humanity. We understand afterburners as an error in fulfilling the human need for transgressive sensations. We want to invite audiences to experience a psychedelic landscape of voyage, dark ecstasy, pulsating bodies, comic gray zone of absurdity. The movement form draws from club styles such as hakken, jumpstyle, hardstyle. Passed through the bodies of those trained in contemporary dance techniques, it creates an energetic mix of extreme dynamics leading to unbridled releases and explosions. We invite the viewerxx to perceive the world in a sensual way, not focused on understanding and producing opinions.
We treat the creative process as an act of collective thinking, exchange, improvisation in both chaos and structure. With an emphasis on inclusivity and democracy. We are not interested in celebrating genius, but in working creatively with the body, memory and their limitations. We want to create for ourselves the working conditions we need, which we have not experienced in systemic education.
Artist's/band's artistic biography
Adrianna Kazimierz - dancer and choreographer. Graduate of the Department of Dance at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. Artistic resident of Lublin Dance Theater in the solo project ,,Macho". Choreographer in the performance , “My pleasure lies at the tip of my tongue”. Assistant to choreographer Jakub Lewandowski in the production of , “Doesn't horses get hit”. Since 2022, she has been working with the Piramovich Institute as a choreographer in the productions “My Illuminations” and a dancer in “The Ghost King or Slovak in Metaversum” as part of OFF POLAND. Choreographer and initiator of the SZELEST 432Hz project. Winner of the ZAIKS “Vibrations” choreographic competition. In 2020-22 she collaborated with Art Spaces Katowice and Katowice City of Gardens, engaging in choreographic and performance work in, among others, the performance “Bright Future” chor. by Anna Mikuła. She has collaborated in productions by Clair Howells and Uwe Koehler, Novas Invasões Portugal and others. A member of the informal PLUR collective.
Rafał Matusiak (he/him) - performer; dancer; mixologist; graduate of the Department of Dance at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. Graduated from the dance innovation profile at XXX High School in Krakow. Winner of two awards of the 12th choreographic competition 3... 2... 1... dance, for a duet created with Joanna Kozubal. He has collaborated with the Art Color Ballet company. He also performed on the stages of the Silesian Theater and the Dramatic Theater in Walbrzych. Member of the informal PLUR collective. He currently lives in Switzerland working at the Bühnen Bern Stadttheater.
ana szopa (she/her/they) - born '00 in Katowice, Poland. Dance hostess, performer, aspiring choreographer, Second Reiki healer, good time specialist. Graduate of the Department of Dance at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. Participant of 3 editions of Kem school program and SNDO Intensive Course of Choreography, scholarship holder of ATLAS ImpulsTanz'24 program. Cultivates collective work seeking pleasure in creative processes. Believes in the healing power of dance subverting training and disciplining bodies. She advocates a holistic approach to movement. Her interests lavigate between techno-shamanism and queer-feminist theories. She raves about the cottage industry approach to life, hardcore, camp, myths, sexuality, postgender, dreams, harsh noise and buttock shaking. She has co-created M. Ziolek's “Free Bodies”, K. Simon's “Exit through the inside”, A. Mikula's “Bright Future”, KCC's “Hair Story”, PPL's “W.I.T.C.H”, Theatre Łaźnia Nowa's ‘ŁYS’, “M4G1C BL0W”. Komuna Warsaw 2024 premiere in the fall. Member of informal collectives: PLUR, jaktańczyć.pl, the one vivid orange wall.
Szymon Tur (he/him) - born in 1999 in Bialystok. Movement artist, actor-dancer specializing in contemporary dance. Graduate of the Department of Dance at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. Shortly after graduation, he co-created and acted in the performance “Everyminute Motherland,” choreographed by Maciej Kuzminski, which was an act of resistance to Russia's aggression against Ukraine. As an actor, he created a role for, among other plays, "Marta. Figura Serpentinata“ directed by Seb Majewski at the Jerzy Szaniawski Drama Theater in Walbrzych and ”Sex, Work and Dreams“ directed by Agnieszka Jakimiak at the ”Then-o-tem" theater in Warsaw. He co-created and performed the performance “LYS” choreographed by Ana Szopa. Scholarship holder of residency projects within the framework of Art Space in Bialystok and Kielce, and the “Polish Theater” program of the Theater Institute. He started his work with movement from street styles. Member of the informal PLUR collective.
sos k. osowska (she/he/he/he/they) - '99. Neuroqueer creative person. Writes, draws, dances, performs. Participant of Art of Openness 2021, Kem School 2023, Solidarity School 2023 and Katowice Theater Round 2024. Survivor of undergraduate studies in dance at Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. Co-created perfomanse “stimulus what senses which” (minus1.artspace), performance “ŁYS” (chor. ana szopa, Theatre Łaźnia Nowa). Dancer in the film "No Beast. So Fierce" (dir. Burhan Qurbani, chor. Przemek Kaminski) Member of informal collectives PLUR and jaktańczyć.pl. At work and in life, it is important for her to take care of pleasure, nervous system and connection with nature.
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15/11/2024
Duration:
55 min
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