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A Nowy Teatr Action
SPRING IN WARSAW
A Walk through the Ghetto led by Public Movement
curated by Joanna Warsza
18.04.2009

Akcja Nowego Teatru
WIOSNA W WARSZAWIE
Spacer przez Getto pod przewodnictwem Public Movement
kuratorka Joanna Warsza
18.04.2009

A Walk Through The Ghetto Led by Public Movement was a collaboration of Israeli performance artists with a Polish curator, questioning the intouchability of the Israeli and Jewish Youth Delegations to Poland and exploring the political and aesthetic meanings residing in their rituals. Public Movement members, together with their Polish collaborators, led a walk through the former Warsaw Ghetto, in the form of a march, a manifestation, a new and alter- memorial ceremony, a guided tour, and an urban walk along a route in a rare site of civil pilgrimage.

Israeli and Jewish Youth Delegations are the trips organized by the Ministry of Education of the State of Israel for teenagers, not only as a school program to commemorate the Shoah, but also to raise nationalistic spirit a few months before their military service starts. Many young Israelis, often abroad for the first time without their parents, spend two weeks in Poland only among themselves, which is also due to the strict security standards applied to these organized groups. The majority of Poles is also unaware of the existence of these trips.

Public Movement based in Tel Aviv operates in public spaces, studies and creates public choreographies, forms of social order, and overt and covert rituals. Among Public Movement's actions in the past and in the future are manifestations of presence, fictional acts of hatred, new folk dances, synchronized procedures of movement, spectacle, marches, all inventing and reenacting moments in the life of individuals, communities, social institutions, peoples, states, and humanity.

Spring in Warsaw was part of a series of actions in Nowy Teatr. It was a curatorial choice of performative events on the edge of the fiction and reality, referring also to the low-technology theater. The leading topic of the series was the relation in between the imagination and the simplicity of certain gestures making shifts in the perceptional logic of the reality, such as ancient machines to produce magic, home made electronic clocks or fictional ceremonies.

Comissioned by: Nowy Teatr Warsaw

Curated by Joanna Warsza

produced by: Zuza Sikorska

Partners: CCA Warsaw, Artists-in-Residence, Israeli Embassy, Adam Mickiewicz Institut, Beit Warsaw, Jewish Museum Warsaw, Chłodna 25

Media patronage: Exclusiv, Gazeta.pl, Gazeta Wyborcza, Tok FM

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Links: http://www.nowyteatr.org, http://www.laura-palmer.pl, http://publicmovementenglish.blogspot.com/

A film by Marcin Latałło

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• public movement
• nowy teatr
• joanna warsza
• jews
• poles
• warsaw ghetto
• spring
• art
• performance
• omer krieger
• Dana Yahalomi
• marcin latallo