Circe – Experimental Platform for Dance and Theatre presents:
Platform Circe and Performat Foundation are hosting:
Online participatory performances (format dedicated for families with children and for teenagers) by Ula Zerek, in cooperation with a Tbilisi-based artist Natia Chikvaidze
Feel invited to join us and participate in online zoom meetings which will introduce the concept of performative activities in the natural environment. After individual practice based on provided scores, we will meet online again to discuss and present excerpts of our small performances.
For participation, there is no need for dance experience.
Registration on the following link:
Registration on the following link:
The performances will involve creating choreographic compositions in relation to the nature surrounding us. During the first meeting, all participants will receive a written score as well as an audio recording of it which will be a manual and a guide for individual activities.
The performative actions undertaken will be based on the scores constituting a source of inspiration for movement, simultaneously allowing individual interpretation. What is only required is carefulness, observation, and taking responsive action.
The program is an invitation to compose choreography through active perception, to communal motor practice, to engagement, and sharing the experience of the careful (mindful) body in direct relation with the natural environment.
The aim of the project is to arouse all the senses and to angle towards the primaeval necessity of communing with nature through a non-invasive interaction and care. Care understood in the feminist vein: as care for nature – and more broadly – for the world.
Shared motor practice amongst nature is of particular significance and carries outstanding power in the context of the ongoing pandemic, which acutely affects our mental and physical condition. The necessity of social distancing in public space and transferring our activities online (also this particular event) has brought several pressing questions concerning the contemporary human condition, the human attitude to others, to the Other, and to the environment. This hybrid formula of on-line meetings and individual practice is an attempt to maintain human connections within one experience performed in different geographical spaces.
The scores for performative activities will be prepared by: Ula Zerek and a Tbilisi-based artist invited to cooperate.
The performative activities with the participation of the residents of Tbilisi are a continuation of Within dance: Wrzeszcz, a project conducted by the Polka dot Foundation in the Tricity Landscape Park (Trójmiejski Park Krajobrazowy). Authors of Within dance: Wrzeszcz: Natalia Chylińska, Julia Kathriner, Katarzyna Kania, Katarzyna Pastuszak, Katarzyna Ustowska, Ula Zerek.
Choreographer:
Ula Zerek – freelance artist working on the edge of dance, theatre and performance art keeping her interest in relations through which the language of art is developed. Choreographer and performer since 2009, working individually as well as with collective groups (e.g., In memoriam, 2014, Ties, 2015, Exposure, 2017). She cooperated with the Dada von Bzdülöw Theatre, taking part in many of their works. She also choreographed pieces for children, such as Here and there, Seven servants (dir. Michał Derlatka), Four seasons (dir. Tomasz Maśląkowski). She graduated from the University of Gdańsk, and from the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk.
Co-founder of the Polka dot Foundation which aims to promote and develop the art of dance, including diverse discourses and new contexts. Polka dot was a co-organiser of The Polish Dance Platform 2019 in Gdańsk. Mom of Bolek and Teo. Living and working in Gdańsk, Poland.
Ula Zerek – freelance artist working on the edge of dance, theatre and performance art keeping her interest in relations through which the language of art is developed. Choreographer and performer since 2009, working individually as well as with collective groups (e.g., In memoriam, 2014, Ties, 2015, Exposure, 2017). She cooperated with the Dada von Bzdülöw Theatre, taking part in many of their works. She also choreographed pieces for children, such as Here and there, Seven servants (dir. Michał Derlatka), Four seasons (dir. Tomasz Maśląkowski). She graduated from the University of Gdańsk, and from the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk.
Co-founder of the Polka dot Foundation which aims to promote and develop the art of dance, including diverse discourses and new contexts. Polka dot was a co-organiser of The Polish Dance Platform 2019 in Gdańsk. Mom of Bolek and Teo. Living and working in Gdańsk, Poland.
More at Circe Platform (WWW & FB) & Performat Foundation (WWW & FB) channels
„The Poles. Choreography of Care” is supported by Tbilisi City Hall, Adjara Group (GR). Partner of the project is Polka dot Foundation (PL).
Subsidised within the remit of the 2017-2022 NIEPODLEGŁA Multi-Annual Programme, as part of the “Cultural Bridges” Programme conducted by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute
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Subsidised within the remit of the 2017-2022 NIEPODLEGŁA Multi-Annual Programme, as part of the “Cultural Bridges” Programme conducted by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute
www.culture.pl
2-3 October 2021 | 8-10 October 2021
Detailed schedule:
– For the families with children 5-12 y.o.
2 October, Saturday, 13:00 GMT+4 / online meeting
Individual practice in natural environment between the online meetings
3 October, Sunday, 17:00 GMT+4 / online meeting
– For the families with children 5-12 y.o.
2 October, Saturday, 13:00 GMT+4 / online meeting
Individual practice in natural environment between the online meetings
3 October, Sunday, 17:00 GMT+4 / online meeting
– For teenagers 13-18 y.o.
8 October, Friday, 17:00 GMT+4 / online meeting
Individual practice in natural environment between the online meetings
10 October, Sunday, 13:00 GMT+4 / online meeting
8 October, Friday, 17:00 GMT+4 / online meeting
Individual practice in natural environment between the online meetings
10 October, Sunday, 13:00 GMT+4 / online meeting