Ghosts

"Ghosts" presents the folk rite of the Eastern European Dziady night as a ritual calling for social justice - a moment when society summons the spirits of the dead to listen to them, judge them, forgive them or condemn them. In the chaos of modernity, we want to draw from the romantic struggle of the individual with evil and the search for justice also beyond the visible world. The performance is an attempt to cope with fear and a sense of helplessness in the face of the great of this world by trusting in the power of goodness, truth and beauty. We treat it as a ritual of purifying collective and individual memory through the beauty of sound, movement, matter, light and body. The choreography inspired by romantic ballet and villa characters is processed by contemporary forms, fragmentary like memory. The white fabric 8x8 m symbolizes the flag, shroud, blank page and the tissue of society. It illustrates both the romantic vision of sensual cognition of the world, as well as the constant movement and transformation of reality.

Zuzanna Kasprzyk - am a graduate of the M.M. Shevchenko Private Ballet School in Gliwice, in 2014 I completed my master's degree at the Faculty of Dance Theatre at the Academy of Theatre Arts in Krakow (Bytom), and I am currently a student at the Doctoral School of the Academy of Music in Łódź. As a freelancer, I have danced in many productions, both in Poland and abroad, including the National Opera in Warsaw, the New Theatre in Łódź, and the Kuala Lumpur Performing Art Center. I currently teach at the Faculty of Choreography and Dance Techniques at the Academy of Music in Łódź and at the Faculty of Dance at the Academy of Humanities and Economics in Łódź. I have participated in many festivals, including: International Contemporary Dance Conference in Bytom, Gdańsk Dance Festival, SzólóDuó Dance Festival in Budapest, Open Stage M1 CONTACT Festival in Singapore, International Dance Festival New Dance for Asia in Seoul and Goyang International Dance Festival in South Korea. I have studied with Jacek Łumiński, Joseph Fruck, Idan Cohen, David Zambrano, Kuik Swee Boon, Guy Cools, Arno Schuitemaker and many others. Andrzej Molenda - I have a PhD in Physics, and I also have a BA in Choreography and Dance Techniques and a MA in Somatics in Dance and Therapy from the Academy of Music in Lodz. I currently work at the Lodz University of Technology, and I have also worked as a lab technician at the Institute of Electronics and Photonics in Warsaw and at the Copernicus Science Center in Warsaw, where I was involved in popularizing science. I am the author of several publications on field theory and quantum nonlocality paradoxes, as well as an article comparing chaos theory with dance improvisation. My experience in various fields of science, dance, and pedagogy resulted in the educational program "Physics in Dance", which is part of the research on embodied knowledge. I participate in webinars of the Embodied Design Research Laboratory at Berkeley University in California.