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Waiting for.. / The Rite of Spring

spectacles by Izadora Weiss

WAITING FOR..

music Philip Glass, Antonio Vivaldi, Marin Marais, Peteris Vasks,
George Gershwin (Summertime sung by Janis Joplin)
libretto and choreographer Izadora Weiss
set designer Hanna Szymczak
 
special performance
June 28th, 2011 ("Zawirowania" The 7th Dance Theatres Festival, Warsaw)
première
August 24th, 2011 (VIIIth International Dance Theatres Festival, Poznań)
 
duration ~ 40'

 
cast 17, 18, 20 III 2012:
 
Beata Giza
Franciszka Kierc
Julia Ławrenowa
 
Michał Łabuś
Bartosz Kondracki
Michał Ośka
 

cast  14, 15, 16, 18 X 2011:

Paulina Wojtkowska (14 X) / Franciszka Kierc (15, 16 X)
Agnieszka Wojciechowska (14 X) / Beata Giza (15, 16 X)
Natalia Madejczyk (14 X) / Julia Ławrenowa (15, 16 X)
 
Michał Łabuś (14, 15, 16 X) / Ireneusz Stencel (18 X)
Bartosz Kondracki (14 X) / Filip Michalak (15, 16 X)
Piotr Nowak (14 X) / Michał Ośka (15, 16 X)
 

cast 24 VIII and 11 IX 2011:


 
"Godot – Beckett’s character, which parabolically replaces God, has become in modern world a proverbial sign of unfulfilled waiting, unrealised yearning, of dreams that can never come true. In our spectacle we tell of those who wait, of the tension which builds up while we wait. Tensions complicate human relations. Being together evolves constantly. Nothing can be stable if each monad expects more than it has been given, more than it can win fighting desires of another monad. Yet, our spectacle is not a philosophical treatise about Leibnitz’s and Hegel’s ideas. We use the Hegellian triad only to observe how love between two people bears its own contradictions.
These contradictions create, using other people involved in the lovers lives, triangles which calm the senses and combinations of such triangles. We are interested in the conflict between a feeling that calls for faithfulness and restless sexuality, always in search of a fresh conquest. There is no better way to talk about it than using dance theatre – where the everlasting relations between bodies become pure poetry".
 
Izadora Weiss


THE RITE OF SPRING

music Igor Strawiński
libretto and choreographer Izadora Weiss
set designer Hanna Szymczak
light Mirosław Poznański
choreographer's assistant Marzena Socha
set designer's assistant Anna Cierpiał

première
March 21st, 2011, Polish National Opera, Warsaw
March 25th, 2011, The Baltic Opera, Gdańsk

duration ~ 35'

 
cast 17, 18, 20 III 2012:
 
Beata Giza
Franciszka Kierc
Julia Ławrenowa
Agnieszka Wojciechowska
Natalia Madejczyk
Paulina Wojtkowska
Zuzanna Marszał
 
Michał Łabuś
Maciej Szymczak
Michał Ośka
Bartosz Kondracki
Piotr Nowak
Radosław Palutkiewicz
Bartłomiej Szymalski
 
Camera operator - Sebastian Ćwikła
 

cast 24 VIII, 11 IX and 14, 15, 16, 18 X 2011:

Beata Giza
Franiciszka Kierc
Julia Ławrenowa
Natalia Madejczyk
Marzena Socha
Agnieszka Wojciechowska
Paulina Wojtkowska
 
Michał Łabuś
Filip Michalak
Piotr Nowak
Michał Ośka
Radosław Palutkiewicz
Ireneusz Stencel (24 VIII, 11 IX) / Bartosz Kondracki (14, 15, 16, 18 X)
Bartłomiej Szymalski

 

cast 21, 25, 26, 27 III and 3, 5, 6 IV:

Franciszka Kierc
Julia Ławrenowa
Natalia Madejczyk
Zuzanna Marszał
Marzena Socha
Agnieszka Wojciechowska
Paulina Wojtkowska
 
Piotr Nowak
Michał Ośka
Radosław Palutkiewicz
Ireneusz Stencel
Krzysztof Szczygieł
Marek Szczygieł
Bartłomiej Szymalski
 
Camera operator - Sebastian Ćwikła

 

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"Igor Stravinsky’s Rite Of Spring is a work commonly known as the most difficult one in repertoires of respectable ballet companies in the entire world. It takes many years of a choreographer’s work with the dancers to create a basis for an attempt to produce the massed score once proposed to Sergei Diaghilev’s company by the genius composer. Vatslav Nijinsky, the first choreographer of this ballet, created a certain movement and interpretation standard which could not be discussed almost at all for a long time.
Only Maurice Béjart’s production broke the pattern and drew new possibilities. The grand spectacle by Pina Bausch closed a certain stage of the search in the field of this music and made each person trying to have a go at it consider it as a reference point. Numerous production add to the collective output their own values, with a better or worse effect, aware of the fact that they are trying to reach the highest summit in the ballet range.
 
The creator and artistic director of the Baltic Dance Theatre – Izadora Weiss – is a choreographer who with her previous productions has proven the skill of creating grand, moving spectacles that receive excellent reviews from critics and standing ovations from the audiences. Her work on her own dance language and on the manner of expressing emotions gives hope that the Rite of Spring by this extraordinary company under her direction will become another event in the intensive life of our theatre and a moving experience for every member of the audience. Also Audi’s patronage over the entire undertaking additionally strengthens the hope, as it gives our artistic ambitions serious financial support.
The performance talks about a common fight of the democratic structures in the globalizing society to rebuild partner-like relationship between a man and woman, and remove to a level of partners and clear the terrain of the gender struggle of male chauvinism and violence from the terrain of the gender struggle. It is still a sensitive issue to talko about men treating women as objects to fulfill their sexual needs and fantasies. Despite declarations of equal rights and respect for "the weaker sex", we are still facing countless acts of violence and contempt, which are not only a consequence of pathological reflex of single individuals but also result from the common consent, traditions and the cultivation of fake values. Our The Rite of Spring is a vehement protest against such status quo".
 
Marek Weiss