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Open Stage: Warsaw Dance Museum — Screening of Boglárka Börcsök’s Film *The Art of Movement*
"Exercises from Memory"
Dance is, by its very nature, an ephemeral form that lasts only as long as it is performed. Nevertheless, today, with the development of audiovisual and digital technologies, it is possible to create, record, and publish two-dimensional images of dance online, as well as to digitize existing historical archives and make them widely accessible. This leap through time—which is what working with archives entails—is becoming increasingly common, restoring knowledge and insights about the dance creators from the period when techniques for recording moving images were taking shape. In this way, images of dancers serve as a new source of knowledge and inspiration for contemporary dancers. The body’s memory expands and takes on new meanings—it becomes a highly personal archive of knowledge about dance. Memory, like the body, can be trained—to remember more, better, and in greater detail.
During the two-day event organized by the Warsaw Dance Museum at the Pavilion, digital recordings of Polish “liberated dance” will be used, juxtaposing it with the German “Freie Tanz” in the context of the French “danse libre,” and setting it against the backdrop of the Hungarian “Mozdulat Müvèszet,” also known as “The Art of Movement.” The exercises will be performed and presented to the public by an intergenerational group consisting of Iwona Wojnicka and Marta Kosieradzka, along with students from the Dance Department of the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice: Sandra Jaszczyk, Paulina Świtalska, Malena Skuza, Julia Łukaszewicz, Klara Horak, Zoe Marston, and Joanna Wolak. The event will be accompanied by composers India Czajkowska and Andrzej Rejman, as well as documentary filmmaker Andrzej Chuszno.
7:00 PM – 8:00 PM Screening of Boglárka Börcsök’s film *The Art of Movement*
8:00 PM – 8:30 PM Discussion with the audience
Dance is, by its very nature, an ephemeral form that lasts only as long as it is performed. Nevertheless, today, with the development of audiovisual and digital technologies, it is possible to create, record, and publish two-dimensional images of dance online, as well as to digitize existing historical archives and make them widely accessible. This leap through time—which is what working with archives entails—is becoming increasingly common, restoring knowledge and insights about the dance creators from the period when techniques for recording moving images were taking shape. In this way, images of dancers serve as a new source of knowledge and inspiration for contemporary dancers. The body’s memory expands and takes on new meanings—it becomes a highly personal archive of knowledge about dance. Memory, like the body, can be trained—to remember more, better, and in greater detail.
During the two-day event organized by the Warsaw Dance Museum at the Pavilion, digital recordings of Polish “liberated dance” will be used, juxtaposing it with the German “Freie Tanz” in the context of the French “danse libre,” and setting it against the backdrop of the Hungarian “Mozdulat Müvèszet,” also known as “The Art of Movement.” The exercises will be performed and presented to the public by an intergenerational group consisting of Iwona Wojnicka and Marta Kosieradzka, along with students from the Dance Department of the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice: Sandra Jaszczyk, Paulina Świtalska, Malena Skuza, Julia Łukaszewicz, Klara Horak, Zoe Marston, and Joanna Wolak. The event will be accompanied by composers India Czajkowska and Andrzej Rejman, as well as documentary filmmaker Andrzej Chuszno.
7:00 PM – 8:00 PM Screening of Boglárka Börcsök’s film *The Art of Movement*
8:00 PM – 8:30 PM Discussion with the audience
Duration: 90 minutes
COMPANY
Project creators: Iwona Wojnicka, Marta Kosieradzka, India Czajkowska, Andrzej Rejman, Andrzej Chuszno, together with students from the Dance Department of the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice: Sandra Jaszczyk, Paulina Świtalska, Malena Skuza, Julia Łukaszewicz, Klara Horak, Zoe Marston, and Joanna Wolak
Choreographer, performer, and researcher, PhD (University of Huddersfield). Initiator of the Warsaw Dance Museum project and director of the documentaries Nata Lerska – historia tancerki (Nata Lerska – The Story of a Dancer) and Mazurówna – moje tańce (Mazurówna – My Dances). Her works have been presented in Poland and abroad.
Dancer and choreographer, graduate of the Artesis Royal Conservatory in Antwerp and the Oslo National Academy of Arts. Author of award-winning performances presented in Europe and other countries. Her work will be shown on the Polish Dance Platform.
Composer and performer associated with the improvised music scene. She creates theater and film music and is a winner of international awards. She combines acoustic and electronic sounds in her original projects.
Composer, pianist, and music producer, graduate of the Academy of Music in Warsaw. Author of theater and film music, as well as stage projects. Member of the ZAiKS Authors' Association.
Film sound engineer and synchronous effects producer. He has worked on numerous feature films and documentaries in Poland and abroad. He combines on-set and studio experience with precision in sound production.
Iwona Wojnicka
Marta Kosieradzka
India Czajkowska
Andrzej Rejman
Andrzej Chuszno
