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A Dream / Tamashii

spectacles by Wojciech Misiuro

 

Wojciech Misiuro DREAM

music Arvo Pärt
choreographer Wojciech Misiuro
set designer Katarzyna Zawistowska
set designer's assistant Aleksandra Staniszewska
choreographer's assistants Aleksandra Michalak, Jacek Krawczyk
light Piotr Miszkiewicz
multimedia projections Łukasz Boros

première March 25th, 2011
 
duration 45'

 

cast 11, 12, 13, 15 XI 2011:
 
Leszek Alabrudziński
Elżbieta Czajkowska-Kłos
Beata Giza
Bartosz Kondracki
Sylwia Kowalska-Borowy
Jacek Krawczyk
Natalia Madejczyk
Aleksandra Michalak
Filip Michalak
Michał Ośka
Marta Śrama
Agnieszka Wojciechowska
and
Andrzej Słomiński
Mariusz Rychalski

 

cast 16 IX 2011:

Leszek Alaburdziński
Elżbieta Czajkowska-Kłos
Beata Giza
Sylwia Kowalska-Borowy
Jacek Krawczyk
Natalia Madejczyk
Aleksandra Michalak
Filip Michalak
Michał Ośka
Bartłomiej Szymalski
Marta Śrama
and
Aleksandra Kobielak
Andrzej Słomiński
Mariusz Rychalski

 

„Dream that you teach a man to die” wrote Jan Kochanowski, a great Polish Renaissance poet, addressing our kind-hearted Half-Death who visits each one of us regularly starting from the moment we are born. Is this what this spectacle is going to be about? Or maybe it is going to be a teenage dream about an unapproachable girl, described by another great writer.
 
Dreams can be wise or stupid, prophetic or dadaistic, they can represent silly fear and extraordinary apocalypses. Where can you dream the most beautiful dreams if not in the theatre? Where do fantasy and impunity of creationand intertwine so very tightly with a real person? Numerous questions follow us on the way to the Baltic Opera where one of the most secretive of Polish modern producers presents his latest work.

The Baltic Dance Theatre has open its stage for him, gave him its artists and our hearts, because Wojtek is a man who is joy to work with; to be touched by his great imagination is an important lesson, and his friendship is a real honour”.

Marek Weiss

Wojciech Misiuro TAMASHII

choreographer and director Wojciech Misiuro
set designer Katarzyna Zawistowska
choreographer's assistant Krzysztof Baliński
music Piotr Pawlak
 
premiere February 6th, 2009

 

cast 16 IX and 11, 12, 13, 15 XI 2011:

Elżbieta Czajkowska-Kłos
Marzena Socha
Marta Śrama
Krzysztof Baliński
Bartosz Kondracki
Jacek Krawczyk
Filip Michalak
Radosław Palutkiewicz
Bartłomiej Szymalski

 

The legendary founder of the Ekpresja Theatre Wojciech Misiuro comes back with Tamashii after years of silence. During the years of change in Poland, Misiuro’s theatre formed the foundations of TriCity dance theatre and educated dancers who today write the history of Polish dance today. Tamashii (‘soul’ in Japanese) is a controversial come back as Misiuro returns to the Opera he once fled from, and to dancers he once rejected from his new theatre in favour of sportsmen. In his own theatre Misiuro focused most of all on the body, physicality and on searching for new types of movement whereas in Tamashii, as the title suggests, he places spirituality in the centre of his interests. He especially refers to Japanese spirituality and culture, generally known from Akira Kurosawa’s films or from samurai stories. During Musiuro’s performance we learn, among other things, how it feels to be a mute witness of seppuku, a Japanese ritual suicide by disembowelment. According to the Japanese tradition the soul houses in the stomach and cutting it open symbolizes innocence of the suicide and showes the honesty of their intentions. The brave samurai created by Misiuro are accompanied by strong and charismatic women.