Programme

In the future, robots coexisted with human beings. The world moved on and the robots did their job helping people, until they began to think for themselves. The government was not happy with this, and ordered to lock up and destroy all the robots on the planet. And so the robots were almost extinct. Almost. One day, Clara, a girl in a wheelchair, goes a long way from her home and arrives at a concentration camp.

In my art I try to find and express the poetry of life, the unexpected, the weird, the unknown… I’m especially interested in the delicate matter of our emotions, both their power and and their charming complications. I dream about my viewers’ tears and believe in the power of katharsis.

Kevin McTurk is a puppet designer, puppeteer and filmmaker, a specialist in special effects inter alia Jurassic Park, Avatar, Iron Man, The Legend of Zorro, King Kong, Hellboy, Terminator 3 and others. He has also been creating his own animated films for several years.

Recuerda is a show for an actor and puppets that tells us about life, memory and passion for the profession of puppeteer.

The show was inspired by the literature from the series "Adult Wars - Children's Stories", the graphic novel "The Arrival" by Shaun Tan, "Wędrówka Nabu" by Jarosław Mikołajewski and the memories of emigrants. The project bordering on puppet theater, visual theater, physical theater and aerial dance touches on difficult aspects of contemporary migration. By means of a wordless image, the creators will discover the personal baggage of experiences of the Nameless Heroes, forced by circumstances that should never have happened until they leave their homeland. They will take you on a journey whose end you cannot be sure of. Holding a travel ticket in your hand, you will decide for yourself about the course of the story that will be told to you. Each performance is unique and one-off also due to the sounds and music created live with the use of musical instruments and everyday objects.

The show "Voa Vladimir, Voa" is an homage to the memory of puppeteer Vladimir Zakharov as a good man he was and as a remebering of him as a creator and builder of the wrist puppet.

I'll be honest with you, dear viewer – the stories presented can be true, maybe fabricated, just like the characters. Each of you will see a reflection of the stories that have happened or will happen to you. On the other side of the stage – you, your grandfather or your neighbor, someone from another galaxy. The main thing is to love and believe See you soon! I love you and I believe in you!

The "Meeting" was created on the basis of 38 anonymous questionnaires containing 11 questions about the Father-Daughter relationship. It was filled by women of all ages. The questions and answers served as a starting point and inspiration. It is thanks to the collected experience of women who share the social role of a Daughter that this performance was created. Below I present questions and selected answers that I, as the author, found special in the context of this project.

"Tańcząc ku korzeniom" (translated as "dancing to the roots") brings people closer to the world of nature and blurs the boundaries between life and the stage. It is based on the search for a natural movement at the interface between human and nature, the expression of emotions, and engaging in dialogue with the Universe. Following the internal images and impulses related to the life of flowers, trees, their relationships with human life will allow you to plunge deep into the body and reveal what emerges in the depths of the subconsciousness. The dance that draws from the subconsciousness, like the ritual - gives the possibility of transgression, becomes a cosmic activity undertaken on behalf of the community.

The show refers to the title of Jiří Menzl’s film about the beginnings of travelling film art. The reference is conscious because Adam Walny uses the technique of manual cinema in the performance. Both the content of the performance, which is based on Andrzej Waligórski’s cycle of poems “The Mad Knight”, and the peculiarities of the technique of manual cinema (shadow theatre) and the film of the famous Czech director have nothing in common. The performance itself consists of several etudes linked by the common protagonist Zenk Dreptak, a figure who is present in Waligórski’s work in different illustrations (in the author’s contemporary version and in medieval costume) and perfectly exposes the vices and problems that are ubiquitous in our reality.

In the performance “The City of Lights” we learn the story of a day in a city. The city is the largest stage, where thousands of performances take place every day. A day holds countless stories of buildings, roads, sidewalks and parks, stories between people, animals and non-human beings.