"Ifigenia in Aulis" (work in progress)

"Ifigenia in Aulis" (work in progress). Directed by Wlodzimierz Staniewski, Poland's leading theatre director. The opening performance is planned in USA -- La MaMa Theatre, New York, October 2007. In each new performance Gardzienice makes direct reference to the iconography of an historical epoch, animating it through living indigenous traditions. In recent years Gardzienice has focussed its research entirely on Ancient Greece - which Staniewski refers to as the "childhood" of Western civilisation. Both these performances are the results of this sustained research. Fragments of ancient music were re-animated in relation to the irregular rhythms of speech, song and dance that the Company found in the Carpathian Mountains and the Ukraine. The texts, musical notation and images were not read but retrieved through "a forgotten line of life inside ourselves". Gardzienice have unfrozen static postures and fragments of music so that "figures are running, spinning, flying... Antiquity is dancing". Again, musicality is the catalyst, shaping the theatre's language as ancient texts are excavated, danced and sung until they touch, reveal and provoke our contemporary selves through Gardzienice's secret music of the body.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• ifigenia
• aulis
• staniewski
• gardzienice
• academy
• polish
• theatre

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