Dreamers' Community
Online performance: "Dreamers' Community" / "Wspólnota śniących" (Poland)
Creators: Maria Magdalena Kozłowska, Magda Kupryjanowicz, Michał Kurkowski / Scena Robocza Poznań
Concept: Maria Magdalena Kozłowska, Magda Kupryjanowicz, Michał Kurkowski
Music: Jan Tomza-Osiecki
Production: Stowarzyszenie Scena Robocza
Premiere: 27.11.2020
Duration: 7 days
Viewers' age: 16 +
Important information: to take part in the online performance, the viewers must have the Zoom application installed
* ONLINE EVENT:
Event Schedule:
Part I: Bedtime training
* Date: 16, 17, 18, 19.08.2021 / Monday - Thursday / - please listen to the audio materials received by e-mail and practice the exercises
Time: materials will be sent around 8 pm
Part II: Online meetings via the Zoom platform
* Date: 20.08.2021 / Friday / - please meet the rest of the dreaming community and dream a collective dream
Time: 10 pm / duration approximately: 30 minutes
* Date: 21.08.2021 / Saturday / - please listen to what the rest of the dreaming community has dreamed about, and share your dreams
Time: 1 pm: / duration approximately: 2 hours
* Date: 22.08.2021 / Sunday / - if you want, you can arrange an individual consultation and meeting with the performers
Time: individually agreed with the performer
Place: The Zoom Platform
Access: free, prior booking of free-entrance passes is required
DESCRIPTION OF THE EVENT:
“Dreamers’ Community” is the first premiere created entirely online of the duration of one week. And so the following elements are combined to create this theatrical experience: know-how on dream studies, exercises supporting creative dreaming, collective performance based on community dreaming, advice by the performer who employs dreams as an artistic tool.
What we know today is that to have a good sleep means to stay healthy - not only that it stimulates the increase in the immunity of the organism but also allows to keep the balance and harmony, at the same time ensuring the regeneration. Saying that, there are many people who would doubt the fact that a good sleep is a remedy for the problems dogging us. However... These days we would like you to feel part of the community which will accompany you in your recuperative journey into your own imagination. You will have to wage a battle in the meaning that you will be faced with your limitations and bad habits, nevertheless at the end of the day you will find out that you and the theatre are one. Forming a community in the times of compulsory isolation is most valuable, though hardly possible.
INFORMATION ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Maria Magdalena Kozłowska - a graduate of the College of Interdisciplinary Individual Studies in Humanities and Social Science at the University of Warsaw and Das Theatre in Amsterdam. She operates within the realm of performance, video, opera and theatre. Voice is the key theme of her works - with its physical aspects and its translation into language. As a performer she brings divas, prophetess, players and saints to life. As a director she offers a mixture of opposite worlds: solemnity with the childish sense of humour, pomposity with a mess, sheer honesty with absolute artificiality. Together with Maria Toboła she is the co-founder of Maria Malpecki duo (previously Małpeczki).
Magda Kupryjanowicz - a graduate of ethnology and theatre studies at the Jagiellonian University, as well as drama studies at AST National Academy of Theatre Arts in Cracow. The scriptwriter of the plays directed by Tomasz Węgorzewski: ”Moses” (Teatr Polski w Podziemiu), “Psychosis” (Teatr im.Stefana Żeromskiego in Kielce), “Vampire.Trauerspiel” (Teatr Polski in Bydgoszcz), “November. Hysterical Romance” (Teatr im.A. Fredry in Gniezno), by Ewelina Marciniak: ”Sommernachtstraum” (Theater Freiburg, Germany), “The Books of Jacob” (Teatr Powszechny in Warsaw), “The Portrait of a Lady” (Teatr Wybrzeże in Gdańsk); by Katarzyna Szynigiera: „Sferia” (Teatr Polski in Bielska-Biała). Awarded with the scholarship of Ministry of Culture and National Heritage twice.
Michał Kurkowski - a playwright at the Teatr Wybrzeże in Gdańsk and a post-graduate student at the Institute of Polish Culture. He graduated from drama studies at the AST National Academy of Theatre Arts in Cracow. He collaborated with Teatr im. Juliusza Słowackiego in Cracow, Teatr Polski in Bydgoszcz and Teatr Wielki in Warsaw. During the COVID-19 isolation period he co-created “radio inżynierska” audio project. He has published his works and translations in the following papers: “Dialog” and “Ruch Muzyczny” monthly magazine, “Didaskalia” bimonthly magazine, and “Konteksty” quarterly magazine.
LINKS:
- http://www.scenarobocza.pl
- http://www.scenarobocza.pl/rezydencja/wspolnota-sniacych/
- https://youtu.be/A4ef4zdpIpU
- https://kulturaupodstaw.pl/cwiczenia-z-dramaturgii-snu/
- https://culture.pl/pl/dzielo/wspolnota-sniacych-kozlowska-kupryjanowiczkurkowski
- https://czaskultury.pl/czytanki/sen-o-wspolnocie/