Venue: KUC Travno
Duration: 55 min.
Ophelia’s complex, Lady Macbeth’s effect, Juliet’s tragedy. Shakespearean female characters are often attributed with madness and instability. The popularity of female madness extends far beyond Shakespeare’s work and becomes an experience eagerly analysed by subsequent authors. Through this performance, we try to imagine the context of the experience of the ‘mad’ female characters. Madness becomes a fascinating image, in which we also often seek emancipatory strategies. These protagonists often act alone. What if we made some displacements and, through that movement, they could meet in one space?
Shakespearia is a dance collage of alternative ideas about the female protagonists in Shakespeare’s tragedies and their coexistence. Dancers from Krakow Dance Theatre create movement-based interpretations of the disorganised thoughts of Ophelia, Lady Macbeth and Juliet, exploring unknown areas of the literary characters and ourselves.
The starting point in the creation of the performance was objects which, together with visuals and the bodies of the performers, build the architecture of the space: the stage space and the imaginary space. When thinking about Ophelia, Lady Macbeth and Juliet, are we able to identify the architecture of their rooms? What if we actually visited Juliet in Verona? What if the protagonists really wanted to go visit Lady Macbeth? In what interiors would she host them? On what furniture?
In addition to the architecture of places, we are interested in body architecture. Can psychological disintegration be presented in the form of decomposition of body fragments? Would Juliet’s hand have saved Lady Macbeth from madness? Can defragmentation of the bodies of these three protagonists take place on stage as an emancipatory project?
Concept and set design: Eryk Makohon
Choreography: Eryk Makohon, Agnieszka Bednarz-Tyran, Yelyzaveta Tereshonok
Dramaturgy: Daria Kubisiak
Music: Piotr Peszat
Video: Grzesiek Mart
Performance: Agnieszka Bednarz-Tyran, Yelyzaveta Tereshonok
Lighting design: Michał Wawrzyniak
Set design collaboration: Piotr Karp
Visual identity: Weronika Wawryk
Coordination and production: Paweł Łyskawa, Izabela Zawadzka
Photography: Oro Attila
Co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
The views expressed in this performance are the sole responsibility of the Croatian Institute for Movement and Dance and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Office for Cooperation with NGOs of the Government of the Republic of Croatia.
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Shakespearia – Krakow Dance Theatre (PL)
KUC Travno
