At the centre of this year’s Playing with Kantor Festival is a relatively young country (having achieved independence in 1830), one with difficult history and complex identity, one that fosters its separateness seeing it as a wealth in its own right – Belgium. The theme of the festival, “doubleness,” is present at more than one […]
Agata Skwarczyńska’s ‘Anatomy lesson – reconfiguration’ is intended as a dialogue with Tadeusz Kantor’s happening, who returned to the staging of Rembrandt’s painting (‘The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp’) as many as four times. At the same time Skwarczynska’s performance is a new realisation in the catalogue of attempts to reconstruct the famous painting, an […]
Classes stimulate children’s imagination, creativity, manual and motor skills based on sensory games with water, sound, and movement. Parents and children find shared pleasure in experiencing and discovering their surroundings. The proposed topic begins a creative journey into the child’s world.
We encourage you to visit Cricoteka with a guide, also in foreign languages.
PAIN GAME (second station) by mariia Lemperk is a circumperformative exhibition based on another edition of a participative, processual, and traveling project thathas been going on since 2023, and its documentation. 3.07–1.09 2024
A series of workshops mixing theatre, fine arts, and music. The classes combine elements of improvisational theatre, activities within a space, various art techniques, and the use of modern multimedia. During classes, we focus on movement, joint activities, and sensory stimulation.
“Rollercoaster” is a programme of modern dance presentations which, for the past seven years, has been organised by Cricoteka and Krakow Dance Theatre. The spectacles, chosen by the curators Paweł Łyskawa and Eryk Makohon, are presented from spring to winter. The theme of the 2024 programme is “Space”, one of the four motion factors, as […]
As part of sharing good practices, we organize meetings for groups of students interested in learning about the activity of cultural institutions.
A theatrical experiment is before us, an attempt to look at Kantor’s last work from two perspectives: scientific and artistic. For six months, a group of people involved in theatre, dance or performance will be searching for meanings, possible scenarios and unrealized shifts in Tadeusz Kantor’s performance Today Is My Birthday. After participating in seminars […]
Since 2018 Cricoteka has hosted a series of monthly screenings of theatre productions by Polish and international directors which play artistically with the work of Tadeusz Kantor. Curated by Anna Róża Burzyńska, the programme adopts a new format this year to present contemporary Spanish theatre, dance theatre, performance and dramaturgy. It examines the interactions of […]
Oil on canvas, gouache on cardboard, hammered steel, cut marble, percussion and piano fugue, or bodies in light, text in motion, dance in sound? Can oil on canvas be transcribed into a kinetic oratorio? What will such a translation bring – loss or discovery? Is translation a dialogue or perhaps a compromise? Limited resources or […]
We warmly invite you to participate in the events accompanying the Constellations exhibition organized as part of the Copernicus Festival 2023: Cosmos! Events for adults and children will be held on June 11, 17 and 18.
For years, scholars have been asking themselves about the boundaries of cosmos, the principles that govern its functioning, and our place in it. Similarly, artists test the boundaries of art, look for the reach of creative matter and coincidence, consciously rejecting the previously worked out laws. Constellations is a story of abstraction that goes beyond […]
Objects and costumes must be works of art, not decoration which is discarded once it has been used. This is what makes the Cricot 2 Theatre a unique and purely artistic phenomenon – Tadeusz Kantor
The project started a new European interaction with partner organisations and professionals of youth and cultural operators in participating countries. The project produced six workshops with arts-based methods for youth and youth organisations in three countries. Themes were reactive eco-crisis, improvisation and drama and accessibility. Arts methods were taught in a pedagogical manner. Each country […]
Ambalaże, Polish word coined from the French emballage meaning “packaging” was one of Kantor’s main creative strategies. The symbolic gesture of wrapping up an object or a figure is related to the need to guard, protect, fix, hide. Earlier, the artist fled from creating images of bodies and objects into abstract art. Emballages let him “touch […]
“The subjectivity of costumes in Kantor’s theatre is undeniable; for him, costumes were living entities with identities of their own, parasites on actors, feeding on them, sprouting from them and growing increasingly independent from the hosts. Taking this idea of costumes as their departure point, the curators set out to augment their function. Excised from […]
