CHOREA Theatre workshops "Dance, Word, Song of Ancient Greece"
Leaders: Dorota Porowska, Elżbieta Rojek, Tomasz Rodowicz
Duration: 180 minutes
Participants’ age: 16+
Workshops designed for people passionate about theatre, music and dance
Please bring comfortable sports clothes and shoes
Workshops will be led in Polish
Date: 24.08.2024 / Saturday
Time: 11 am - 2 pm
Place: Workshop room, Art Factory in Lodz
Admission: 60 PLN / prior booking is required
Booking: from July 29, 2024 / via kicket.com (online payment) / at CHOREA Theatre festival office (cash payment or contactless card payment)
INFORMATION ABOUT THE LEADERS
Dorota Porowska - actress, theatre director, choreographer, theatre workshop instructor, academic lecturer. Leading member of Centre for Theatre Practices "Gardzienice" in 1984-2003. Leader of theatrical workshops in Royal Shakespeare Company, at the Acting Departments Columbia of Stanford University and in the Institute of Meyerhold in Moscow. In 2002 co-created a dance group "Labyrinth Dances". CHOREA Theatre Association co-founder and member since 2004. Constantly works as an educator running workshops for students of theatre and cultural studies at the Universities in Poznan, Lodz, Wroclaw, Lublin, Warsaw and School of Theater in Liège (Belgium). In her artistic biography, apart from acting and directing theatre performances, she is occupied with analytical work on human creativity and perception, and the mechanisms which control our way of being in a separated space dedicated to the creative act. It is an unusual and very concrete space, natural for everyone, and it is worth visiting.... from time to time.
Elżbieta Rojek - actress, vocalist, folk singer, musician, pedagogue, theatre instructor. Graduate of Ukrainian Philology at the University of Maria Curie-Sklodowska in Lublin. She started her vocal career in the musical group Orkiestra Św. Mikołaja, exploring the Lemko and Hutsul musical traditions. In 1994-2005 actress of Centre for Theatre Practices "Gardzienice". In 2002, together with Dorota Porowska, she founded a dance project "Labyrinth Dances", based and inspired by the idea of recreating dance and choreography from ancient Greek iconography. In 2005, together with Tomasz Rodowicz, Dorota Porowska and Maciej Rychły, she co-founded CHOREA Theatre Association. Since 2005 she has collaborated with: the University of Jan Józef Lipski in Teremiski, founded by Danuta and Jacek Kuroń, and the Association For Earth, which creates projects addressed to refugees. Among others, she cooperates with neTTheatre and the Sztuka Nowa Association. She co-creates many artistic and musical projects, including: "Przystanek Poezja" with Waldemar Rychły and Mandar Purandare, and concert "Jeden / Wiele" with Karolina Cicha. Endless imagination, desire to learn and to gain different experiences are her main features. She likes to change places and activities, but she also likes to come back to what she left - and the returns are different and better each time. She loves to travel, and she loves animals and nature. Probably if she could, she would be an ornithologist or physicist. She really likes people and their stories. She knows how to listen. She has friends all over the world. Kalinka, her sister's daughter, once said that she is "a joker sometimes as funny as a clown". She speaks Ukrainian and English, and she learns Greek too.
Tomasz Rodowicz - Artistic Director of CHOREA Theatre. An actor, director, musician, teacher, educator, theatre instructor, university lecturer, earlier also a historian of philosophy and bee-keeper. Born in 1951 in Warsaw. A graduate of the Department of History of Philosophy at the Warsaw Theological Academy. A co-founder of the first social therapy centre for the young addicts in Poland. He has cooperated with Jerzy Grotowski and Teatr Laboratorium between 1974-1979 on the para-theatrical initiatives. The co-founder and key actor of the Centre for Theatre Practices "Gardzienice", its member and the leader of educational programs between the years 1977-2003. The co-founder of CHOREA Theatre Association and its leader since 2004. The artistic director of Fabryka Sztuki in Łódź since 2007. The artistic director of International Theatre Festival Retroperspektywy and the National Theatre Festival Perspektywy. The lecturer at the following universities: the University of Łódź, AST National Academy of Theatre Arts in Krakow (Bytom branch), The Leon Schiller National Film, Television and Theatre School in Łódź. The leader of multiple international educational, didactic, artistic projects and research expeditions for actors, theatre coaches and culture animators from around the world. Innovative musical and physical training expert and theatre workshop specialist. Worldwide authority in leading workshops for actors, dancers, singers, musicians, theatre instructors and culture animators. Author of a handbook "Actors physical training. From individual to group actions". In 2014 he was awarded the Medal for Merit to Culture - Gloria Artis by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage. In 2018 he was awarded by the Mayor of the City of Łódź in recognition of his artistic achievements, culture protection and popularisation. In 2019 he received a Zygmunt Hübner "THEATRE FIGURE" Award, established by Fundacja Teatru Myśli Obywatelskiej im. Zygmunta Hübnera - this way becoming part of distinguished laureates, i.e.: Anna Augustynowicz, Jan Englert, Jerzy Trela, Piotr Cieplak and Jacek Głomb.
