Photo: Kaya Kołodziejczyk.
On Saturday 1 Ocotber 2016 at 8.30 pm, a premiere Kaya Kołodziejczyk?s Audition V is taking place as part of 15th Body/Mind Festival. Audition V is a performative installation and a movement opera with video and voice elements. Performance is a meta-opera to texts by Jacek Bieriezin, Zbigniew Dolecki and Sławomir Mrożek, where the dancers, music composition, scenography and visual elements are equal elements. Six years after the premiere of Audition 4, Kaya Kołodziejczyk took on the task of producing the next part of Andrzej Krzanowski?s vocal/instrumental/performative cycle, so far not staged. This lengthy project had been preceded by research on avant-garde music and theatre of the 1960s and 1970s, which had considerable influence on choreography creation.
Architectonic experiments on human body, computer graphics, interactive animations responding to sound and movement, somatic techniques, film images, a choir commenting on the events, musicians playing the instruments (whistles, ocarinas, sirens) ? all these elements create a music score to the Polish composer?s sensual spectacle. Kołodziejczyk focuses primarily on movement and voice, treating them as a starting point for production of the whole opera. She interprets the music but also gives new meanings to the lyrics. She is the first to use the literary texts selected by the composer and put him in the position of the playwright. Images inscribed into the music score need the audience?s involvement in order to resound fully. This necessity of interaction makes it possible to interpret this reconstruction of Krzanowski?s work in completely new ways. Therefore, it is not a closed form one that opens the viewers to new experiences and makes them perceive it with as many senses as possible.
Meeting with choreographer Kaya Kołodziejczyk will take place after the performance on 2 October at 6 pm.
Venue: Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, “Laboratorium” Buidling, Wojciech Krukowski Room, ul. Jazdów 2.
Concept and choreography: Kaya Kołodziejczyk
Performers: Tomasz Bazan, Szymon Bywalec, Ilona Gumowska, Paweł Grala, Katarzyna Kizior, Aniela Kokosza, Daniela Komędera, Paweł Smagała
Music: Andrzej Krzanowski
A suite ?Audycja V? for a soprano, choir and instrumental ensemble with the lyrics by Zbigniew Dolecki (1978) ? first performance, conductor: Szymon Bywalec, performers: Anna Patrys ? soprano, Cantus Floridus vocal ensemble, the New Music Orchestra, 2010 ?Salve Regina? performed by Camerata Silesia Singers, conductor: Anna Szostak-Myrczek, 2012. A fragment of archival recording of ?Audycja I?(1973) with Adam Ferency is used in the performance. The recording was made on 19 September, 2000 in the Witold Lutosławski Polish Radio Concert Studio in Warsaw during the 43rd International Festival of Contemporary Music ?Warsaw Autumn?.
Lighting director: Herman Venderickx
Costumes: Paulina Plizga
Scenography: Ada Rączka, Rita Mueller
Visualizations: Kaya Kołodziejczyk, Maria Matylda Wojciechowska
Graphic guidance: Magdalena Jaszczuk -DeLord
Music tutorial and artistic guidance: Szymon Bywalec
Aikido tutorial: Piotr Nowakowski
Producer: Body/Mind Foundation, Kaya Kołodziejczyk
Co-producer: APAP with the support of the EU Culture Programme
Partners: Institute of Performative Arts, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, TheatrePowszechny Theatre, Feel It Management Katarzyna Wojciechowska-Reiber, Delord, Krusznia Association
Honorary Patronage: the Krzanowski family & Autumn Music Festival ?Alkagran?
The project was financed from the Fund for the Promotion of Creative Activity of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.
Premiere: 1.10.2016 | Body/Mind Festival
PLEASE NOTE: stroboscope light is used during the performance.
Viewers can enter and leave the event at all times.
Tickets: 30 PLN/15 PLN
