Defeating gravity, breaking conventions – Vertikal and Phénix by Mourad Merzouki at the XXXI Bydgoszcz Opera Festival Vertikal and Phénix is not only a show of choreographic mastery, but also a profound manifesto of creative freedom. Mourad Merzouki, a master of combining styles and pushing boundaries, constructs worlds where the dancer gets rid of the…
CTRL+ALT+LOVE That is, about relationships – once seriously, once in debug mode As part of the “Dance, Dialogue, Man, Culture” program block, we saw two male duets – from Poland and Hungary – on the Central Dance Stage. Although at first glance they were separated by almost everything: aesthetics, language of movement, tone of stage…
Dancing Behind the Wall. The Symphony of the Whispering Walls by h.art company. September 2, 2023 marked the Polish premiere of The Symphony of the Whispering Walls. It was inspired by Mieczyslaw Wejman’s graphic art series The Dancers. British choreographer of Albanian descent Erion Kruja breathed the spirit of unknown characters from the Warsaw Ghetto…
Will they come back no more? Cry. Breathe. Exordium[1] I feel nothing. There is nothing but waiting, emptiness. In this emptiness, there is a rope and a naked body tied to it, flung to a corner of the stage. From the twilight, accompanied by a cellist sitting aside , a female figure shows up. In…
A poem about abandonment Procrastination is the result of a competition between the limbic system and the prefrontal cortex. The limbic system is responsible for emotions and impulsiveness, including striving for an immediate reward. the prefrontal cortex, in turn, is responsible for concentration, self-management, attention and goals, and perception of time.[1] Sooner or later each…
THE END – THE BEGINNING, MAN “IN PROGRESS” Who are we? Our thoughts, feelings, experiences, motives and ways of acting are probably only a small part of what we call human potential. We came to being unexpectedly at some point in space-time and from this moment we subject to many, more or less conscious, transformations….