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Wojtek Ziemilski: Prolog

For twelve spectators and an empty grandstand

  • Wojtek Ziemilski / © Konstantin Telepatov
    Wojtek Ziemilski
    (c) Konstantin Telepatov

Prolog is always both at the same time: reception and action, possibility and decision, solo pieces and social choreography.

Part of the special attraction of this interactive performance is that it confronts the audience with precise rules that constantly provide new opportunities for making decisions. In so doing, personal stories—real and fictional—form the starting point for the pleasurable study of processes of societalization and rituals in public space.

Assembling, moving together, fixing the other, choosing a standpoint, occupying a space, staking out a region: whenever new communities form, whether at Zuccotti Park in New York , Tahrir Square in Cairo, or in the model space of the theater, new regularities emerge.

The premiere of Prolog was one of the most original events at the last Krakowskie Reminiscencje Teatralne. The work of the young Polish director Wojtek Ziemilski hits a nerve of our age, directing our gaze on the structures and anti-structures of communities.

Wojtek Ziemilski, Krakau The 34-year-old Polish director Wojtek Ziemilski studied in Lisbon before beginning to direct international workshops where he experiments with the lines separating theater, dance, and fine arts. Since returning to Poland in 2009, Polish theater critics have been celebrating him as one of the most important artists of the recent generation. As an author of one of the most-read blogs on contemporary art - new-art.blogspot.com -he is one of the most important voices in the aesthetic and political discussion of his country.
A work previously performed in Germany is his lecture/performance Small Narration, in which the objectivity of political apparatuses and the fire of subjective memories find their own biographical form of narration.

 [BC1]"liberty square" is taken from Tahrir Square, it's only used within the movment: would be very strange to use that here.

Concept and Direction —
Wojtek Ziemilski
Co-Author —
Sean Palmer, Iza Szostak
Stage —
Agnieszka Stanasiuk
Light —
Karolina G_bska
Video —
Marcin Ebert

Shows

Location
— PACT Zollverein, Essen
Premiere
— 14. September 2012
Further dates
— 14. 14. 15. 15. 15. 15. 15. 16. 16. 16. 16. 16. September
Duration
— 45 min
German premiere
performance in English
Tickets
— 15 €
Reduced prices start at 7,50 €
September
  • Fri14Sep
    18.30
    Wojtek Ziemilski: Prolog on 14. September 2012 at 6.30 PM
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    Wojtek Ziemilski: Prolog on 14. September 2012 at 8.00 PM
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    Wojtek Ziemilski: Prolog on 14. September 2012 at 9.30 PM
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    Wojtek Ziemilski: Prolog on 15. September 2012 at 9.30 PM
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    Wojtek Ziemilski: Prolog on 16. September 2012 at 6.30 PM
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    Wojtek Ziemilski: Prolog on 16. September 2012 at 8.00 PM
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    Wojtek Ziemilski: Prolog on 16. September 2012 at 9.30 PM
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A production of Krakow Theatrical Reminiscences, Ochota Theatre/Centre for Theatre Culture. Partnership: National Culture Centre. In cooperation with Centre For Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute, SOHO FACTORY. With the friendly support of Adam Mickiewicz Institut Warschau in the context of ›Klopsztanga. Polen grenzenlos NRW‹.