Meeting With The Theatre Of Death
Topic: Meeting With The Theatre Of Death
Dates: 7 – 16 December, 2012 (open show)
Place: Cricoteka, no. 5 Kanonicza Street, Krakow
Run by: Bogdan Renczyński
Limit of participants: 14
Tadeusz Kantor through passing on the reference points for personal work on looking into the unique world of The Theatre of Death. The workshop will be mainly based on the dynamics of acting with text and object, connected to a particular kind of stage presence suggested by Tadeusz Kantor.
The foundation of this theatre lay in the renunciation of the illusory reproduction and representation.
Tadeusz Kantor appropriated Reality, ‘he (annexes it) entraps it’. In order to approach his method, we will start with negation of traditional form and conventional expression. What is important is the emphasis on the abstract value of behaviour, manipulation of reality and unbiased application of reality.
The workshop is divided into six part, each consists of improvisations and etudes.
Levels of lectures and workshops:
1. Creative act as a shared value for the individual and the audience.
2. State of freedom of the actor-creator in the presence of the audience.
3. The art of freedom inspite of all.
4. The stage and the audience as theatre space communicating human good.
Bogdan Renczyński
BOGDAN RENCZYŃSKI
An actor of the Cricot 2 Theatre from 1982 to 1992, and later of Compagnie du Singulier Theatre from 1994 to 1996 and MIST Theatre from 1996 to 1997.
He performed in Tadeusz Kantor’s productions The Dead Class, Let the Artists Die, Wielopole Wielopole, I Shall Never Return, and Today Is My Birthday.
Since 1980, he has been working at the Centre for Documentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor ‘Cricoteka’ in Krakow. A curator of numerous exhibitions of Tadeusz Kantor’s work in Poland and abroad. Initiator and co-founder of the Parisian Association Le Retour d’Ulysse (educational activities: organisation of seminars and drama workshops). Director of What Shall We Do With the Cello by Matei Vişniec with the Théâtrè des Collines in Etoile (France, 2007), and Rebecca, My Mother at the Théâtre du Radeau in Le Mans (France, 2010). Conducted theatre workshops in Cartoucherie (Association de Recherche des Traditions de l’Acteur, 2010), Auvergne (Ferme de Trielle, 2008), Gent (École des Beaux-Arts KASK, 2008) and Lyon (Théâtre des Asphodèles, 2006).
Tadeusz Kantor, I Shall Never Return, Cricot 2 Theatre, 1988
