Rok Grotowskiego 2009

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January

12th January (Monday), 4:00 pm The Great Hall of the Wroclaw Town Hall, Old Market Square Inauguration of the Grotowski Year 2009
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February

6th February
Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, New York, United States

Official inauguration of the Grotowski Year in New York, organised by the Polish Cultural Institute in New York and the Department of Performance Studies at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.

March

16th March (Monday), 8:45 p.m.
Aula Magna, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy

Jerzy Grotowski The Constant Prince

Centro Teatro Ateneo from Sapienza University and the Polish Institute in Rome are organizing a film screening of a digitally-improved DVD documenting this performance from the Laboratory Theatre, through a project ‘The Constant Prince’ of Jerzy Grotowski. Reconstruction [Il Principe Costante di Jerzy Grotowski-Ricostruzione] directed by Prof. Ferruccio Marotti of Centro Teatro Ateneo. Università di Roma ‘La Sapienza’, Roma 2005, 48 min.

April

31st March – 5th April
Wroclaw

Premio Europa per il Teatro

May

4 May (Monday), 7:00 pm
New York, USA

Grotowski and Kantor
Discussion between Prof. Zbigniew Osinski (University of Warsaw) and Prof. Michal Kobialka (University of Minnesota), author of the book Further on, Nothing: Tadeusz Kantor’s Theatre published in 2009.
Facilitated by Prof. Daniel Gerould.

This dialogue is part of the programme Year of Grotowski in New York presented by the Polish Cultural Institute of New York City, in collaboration with Richard Schechner from Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.

Program The Year of Grotowski in New York

8–28 May (Friday–Thursday)
Kalisz

Celebration of The Grotowski Year 2009 during the 49th annual Kaliskie Spotkania Teatralne/Kalisz Theatre Meetings

Organizers: City of Kalisz, Wojciech Boguslawski Theatre, Adam Asnyk Public Library, Centre of Art and Culture, Teacher Improvement Centre, and Ignacy Paderewski 4th High School in Kalisz, in collaboration with the Grotowski Institute in Wroclaw.

26th May (Tuesday), 6:30 pm

Barcelona

Grotowski: Beyond Theatre

Opening of The Grotowski Year in Barcelona. Participants: Marek Perkal, Polish consul in Barcelona; Mercè Saumell, director of the Institut del Teatre Cultural Services; and Anna Caixach, curator and coordinator of The Grotowski Year celebrations in Barcelona. During the gathering, there will be:

film presentations by Maria Zmarz–Koczanowicz (Jerzy Grotowski – proba portretu, 1999)
the exhibition Polwiecze Teatru Laboratorium, prepared in collaboration with the Grotowski Institute.

30th May – 1st June (Saturday – Monday)

Moscow

Grotowski retrospective

Presentation of The Grotowski Year organized by the Meyerhold Centre in Moscow in collaboration with the Grotowski Institute. Programme includes: film presentations; lecture by Jaroslaw Fret, director of the Grotowski Institute; and discussion.

June

Wroclaw Exhibition devoted to theatre masters at the turn of the 21st century, on the Old Market Square
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July-August

7th July – 5th August Wroclaw, Brzezinka Practical seminar Meetings with Remarkable Women within the frame of the project by Virginie Magnat (Canada), realised in collaboration with the Grotowski Institute
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October

19th–21st October Paris, France Conference Anthropologie théâtrale selon Jerzy Grotowski organised by the Grotowski Institute in collaboration with Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, Université Paris-Sorbonne and the Collège de France
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November

Rome, Italy Meeting at the University of Rome La Sapienza, in collaboration with the Polish Institute in Rome
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December

15th November – 2nd December

Polish Theater Fall In California

10th–11th December
Wroclaw

Conference Slowacki and Grotowski. ‘He broke my internal bones...’, organised by the Drama Department of the Faculty of Polish Philology of the Jagiellonian University, in collaboration with the Instituto Cervantes in Krakow and the Grotowski Institute

January 2010

14th–15th January 2010 Warsaw Final conference, at the Institute of Polish Culture at the University of Warsaw, in collaboration with the Grotowski Institute
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Programme

8th–26th May (Friday–Tuesday), 6:00 pm.

Main Library of Adam Asnyk Public Library, ul. Legionow 66.

Exhibition: Ryszard Cieslak – aktor Jerzego Grotowskiego/ Ryszard Cieslak - Jerzy Grotowski’s Actor,

11th May (Monday). 10:00 am.

Culture and Arts Centre, ul. Lazienna 6

Film presentation of the performance Acropolis, directed by Jerzy Grotowski.

13th May (Wednesday), 3:30 pm.

Reception Room of the Tawn Hall, Glowny Rynek 20

Seminar: „Jerzy Grotowski – spojrzenia” / “Jerzy Grotowski – looks”

Opening: Dr Janusz Pecherz, Mayor of the City of Kalisz

Lectures: Prof. Maja Komorowska, Prof. Dariusz Kosinski, theatre director Alina Obidniak, Dr Grzegorz Ziolkowski

20th May (Wednesday) 10:00 am.

High School no 4, ul. Widok 96 A.

Czytania z Eliota. Wokol Apocalypsis cum figuris / Reading Eliot. Around Apocalypsis cum Figuris.

27th May – 9th June (Wednesday–Tuesday)

Culture and Arts Centre, ul. Lazienna 6.

Opening: May 27, 6:00 pm.

Exhibition: Piecdziesiata rocznica powstania Teatru Laboratorium / 50 years of the Laboratory Theatre.

Introduction: Prof. Janusz Degler – “Teatr ubogi czy bogaty?”/”Poor or rich theatre?”

28th May (Thursday),10:00 am.

Wojciech Boguslawski Theatre, pl. Boguslawskiego 1.

“Sladami Cieslaka i Grotowskiego”/ “Following Cieslak and Grotowski”

Trip and lectures on places in Kalisz connected with Ryszard Cieslak and Jerzy Grotowski.

Coordination: Culture and Art, Sport and Tourism Department in Kalisz

Curators: Wlodzimierz Garsztka and Maciej Michalski

Rok Grotowskiego w Berlinie

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