26 June 07:00 p.m.
From Caligari to Hitler – the birth of evil:“The Testament of Dr. Mabuse”(1933)
Director:Fritz Lang
Introduction by Tomasz Kolankiewicz
An overview of pre-war German cinema
Free admission
27 June 08:30 p.m.
New Music Scene
The inauguration of a series of concerts by the Chain Ensemble. This is a presentation of important musical achievements of the past few decades. Works that are or should become part of the modern musical canon will be presented.
During the inauguration of the cycle, we will listen to the works of postmodernist Paweł Szymański and the modern classic – György Ligeti, as well as avant-garde's new generation represented by Francesco Filidei and Raphaël Cendo. This year, the New Music Scene will present, for example, the works of György Kurtág, Agata Zubel and Georg Friedrich Haas with the participation of world-renowned soloists.
Chain Ensemble is a chamber orchestra created under the auspices of the Witold Lutosławski Society, specialising in playing new music. Its artistic director is cellist and conductor Andrzej Bauer.
Witold Lutosławski – Przeźrocza (1988)
Paweł Szymański – Appendix (1983)
György Ligeti – Chamber Concert (1969-1970)
Francesco Filidei – Finito ogni gesto (2010)
Raphaël Cendo – Action Painting (2004-2005)
Performance:
Chain Ensemble
Conductor: Andrzej Bauer
Soloist: Ewa Liebchen – piccolo flute
Organiser: The Witold Lutosławski Society
Partner: Nowy Teatr
Tickets: PLN 20
29 June 07:00 p.m.
Power, gender, desire. Hollywood Classics at Nowy Teatr.Screening and lectures by Agnieszka Graff
Director: Douglas Sirk (1956)
A top melodrama and a true spiritual feast for enthusiasts of camp and Sirk.
Want to learn the titles of films screened during lectures? Write to: bow@nowyteatr.org or call: 22 379 33 33
Free admission
1-3 July 07:00 p.m.
The Sexual Life of Savages
Krzysztof Garbaczewski’s legendary play returns six years after its premiere.
The script was based on Bronisław Malinowski’s works, in particular “The sexual life of savages in north-western Melanesia”, “A journal in the strict sense of the word” and “The Argonauts of western Pacific”.
Director: Krzysztof Warlikowski
Script, dramaturgy: Marcin Cecko
The Island: Aleksandra Wasilkowska
Music: Jan Duszyński
Cast: Justyna Białowąs, Dominika Biernat, Justyna Wasilewska, Tomasz Bazan, Sebastian Łach, Piotr Polak, Paweł Smagała, Krzysztof Zarzecki
Tickets: PLN 50/40/30/25
Entrance ticket: PLN 20
5 July 08:00 p.m.
The Sound Regained
A concert which is very similar to a theatrical performance. A performance which is a concert. A monodrama. A solo recital. A cello performance. A dialogue between a musician and a visual artist. So many descriptions but none of them fully reflects the essence of “The Sound Regained”. Michał Pepol is a member of the Royal String Quartet who, inspired by cooperation with Krzysztof Warlikowski’s theatre, decided to expand and modernise the form of a classical concert. He presents unusual performance techniques (not using a bow, producing sounds with his hands, electronics, using vases as resonators), stimulates the imagination and, most importantly, reveals his intimate relations with a cello, leaving members of the audience with some room for experiencing their own stories.
Cello: Michał Pepol
Visuals: Paweł Bownik
Tickets: PLN 20
11-12 July 08:00 p.m.
Gala
The Polish premiere of the performance under the Body/Mind Festival.
This is a project combining professional and amateur dancers and it blurs the lines between failure and success in performance as it suggests that theater is community, both onstage and off.
The Warsaw Gala is another rendition of the performance originally prepared in 2015 with the residents of the Parisian suburbs and recreated in a number of other cities since then. The main principle stays the same – there are 20 performers selected among local residents, this time of Warsaw. Professional actors as well as ballet and contemporary dance performers stand side by side with amateurs, whose social backgrounds, age and life experiences are as diversified as possible, in order to form a democratic community which for a couple of days is joined together by dance without any limits.
Idea: Jérôme Bel
Cast: Stella Walasik, Rinaldo Venuti, Iza Szostak, Wojciech Grudziński, Katarzyna Maria Zielińska, Aleksander Janiszewski, Zuzanna Hartfiel, Franciszek Prętki, Małgorzata Kwiatkowska, Natalia Majewska, Maja Kowalczyk, Ryszard Czubak, Maciej Gośniowski, Oliwia Olczyk, Teresa Ferraris, Yasmina Yasa, Agnieszka Goźlińska, Monika Chodyra, Dariusz Matuszewski, Mamadou Ba
Tickets: PLN 50/35
11-12 July 06:00 p.m. – 08:00 p.m.
13-14 July 11:00 a.m. – 01:00 p.m.
16-17 July 06:00 p.m. – 08:00 p.m.
Kiosk in motion
Performing Europe season 1
An interdisciplinary educational installation/reflection on dance
free admission | registration: abc@cialoumysl.pl
Organiser:Body/Mind Foundation
Co-organiser: Nowy Teatr
Curator: Edyta Kozak
Co-curator: Tomasz Ciesielski
Educators: Maja Molska, Tomasz Ciesielski
17 July 11:00 a.m. – 02:00 p.m.
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Performing Europe season 1
Ramona Nagabczyńska, Magda Jędra
Participants will become acquainted with the choreographical tools used during the process of development of Ramona Nagabczyńska’s new performance.
free admission | registration: abc@cialoumysl.pl
17 July 04:30 p.m. – 05:30 p.m.
Around Body-Opera
Performing Europe season 1
What is an opera installation and why is it still worth composing operas even though nobody sings in them? Why is the body important when listening to the music? Can one hear and feel sounds through the bones or skin? Does our body become trapped, ignored and restricted to a pair of active ears when going to a philharmonic? While showing around Body-Opera, Wojtek Blecharz will try to answer those and other questions. He will attempt to explain why this opera requires one hundred yoga mats, one hundred pillows, one hundred loudspeakers and eight hundred meters of cables.
free admission | registration: abc@cialoumysl.pl
17 July 06:00 p.m. – 06:40 p.m.
MORE | work in progress
Performing Europe season 1
Ramona Nagabczyńska
A work in progress presentation of a performance referring to, among others, the aesthetics of the sci-fi, B-horror movies, strategy of Genesis P-Orridge and NASA designs.
Idea, choreography, performance: Ramona Nagabczyńska
Cooperation, performance: Magda Jędra
free admission | registration: abc@cialoumysl.pl
16-17 July 08:00 p.m.
Body-Opera
A Polish premiere of Wojtek Blecharz’s opera installation.
Body-Opera is dedicated to the audience and investigates the links between the human body and how sounds are perceived, while reminding us of their physical nature.
Director, music: Wojciech Blecharz
Dance: Karol Tymiński
Double bass: Beltane Ruiz Molina
Percussion: Alexandre Babel
Stage design and costumes: VJ Ewa Śmigielska
Producer: Nowy Teatr
Co-producers: Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
Partner: Body/Mind Foundation under the project Performing Europe
photo: Brian Slater
Tickets: PLN 50/25/20
