Category: theater
Freak show
Performance premiere 1st part: 19 October at Jasna 10 Krytyka Polityczna, 2nd part: 31 October 2024 at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. Is it possible to express sadness against the dominant ideologies of bodypositive and inspiration porn? How to build pride in what is socially accepted as an image of failure? And –…
Do what you want
Producer: Theatre21/ Centre for Inclusive Arts Warsaw, Poland The performance Do What You Want is Filip Pawlak’s attempt, based on his own history, to find an explanation of what alternative motorics is – a concept popularised by the choreographer Rafał Urbacki and still in circulation today. In his search, the artist delves into the archives…
Filip Pawlak 2023-2025 work in progress
How does a social sense of pride in belonging to a particular social group emerge? Does it have to be founded on trauma? Do disabled people have access to their own melancholy and experience of grief? The producer, performer and activist Filip Pawlak works with these questions within a larger research on disability that he…
Nowy Teatr Warsaw
From 2019 to 2022, I was a producer and, in season 21/22, head of the production department at the Nowy Teatr International Cultural Centre in Warsaw. While working there, I have had the pleasure of producing performances by Krzysztof Warlikowski, Katarzyna Kalwat, Michał Borczuch, Małgorzata Wdowik, Anna Smolar, Marcus Ohrn and Jan Klata, among others.…
May the sun never shine on this day
Dir. Rafał Urbacki, Fredro Theatre in Gniezno, Poland Once upon a time, maybe a century ago, maybe two centuries or three centuries ago, in a certain kingdom far away…. the king of beggars, monarch of the crippled and the handicapped, of convicts and lunatics, ruler of poverty and contempt, pronounced a curse on the city,…
