Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Found a room, Gardzienice, how do we sing this

Thanks to Radmila, who introduced me to Shiwani, we have found a room for Ana, the Polish theatre artist who's coming over for a training. The room is right by the UW campus, spacious, light, and private.

This is Gardzienice's website, if you want to read more about Ana's theatre company.


Gardzienice, in eastern Poland


An early Gardzienice work

Gardzienice is as strikingly physical, vocal, transcendant, groundbreaking, and historically significant as the Odin. They, too, are not just a theatre -- they are an entire philosophy, ethics, and way of being in the world. I don't know their company well, unfortunately -- but believe me -- RESPECT IS DUE. One of their trainings, for example, is night running. The actors go out at night, and run for miles on paths through the hills.

For a long time, Gardzienice began their exploration of each new piece with the question, "How do we sing this?"

How do we sing this.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

And the 2 actors in this photo went on to form Song of the Goat Theatre!

Thanks for the word of mouth on Oedipus, we're having some censorship issues which are presenting some difficulty getting the posters posted.

Rachel Rutherford said...

I thought I recognized Anna, but I did not recognize Grzegorz. How cool, to have a picture of the two Piesn Kozla founders in an Avakkum photo.

I'll keep the word up on Oedipus as it grows closer. Send me any production photos I can post. Feel free to give out links to my blog, too. I think actually seeing pictures of the house makes the performance more enticing.

I can't wait.