Zinnema<\/p>\n
Anna Karasi\u0144ska’s 'Fantazja’<\/strong>\u00a0will be shown from May 30 until June 1, 2019 at the\u00a0Kunstenfestivaldesarts<\/a>\u00a0in Brussels. On May 30, 2019, the play will be followed by a talk between\u00a0Anna Karasi\u0144ska\u00a0& Marta Keil ’Warsaw \u2013 resisting & rewriting polish theatre today’<\/strong>\u00a0moderated by Jonas Vanderschueren\u00a0(in collaboration with\u00a0Etcetera<\/a>).<\/p>\n Fantazja<\/strong> Talk:\u00a0'Warsaw \u2013 resisting & rewriting polish theatre today’<\/strong> \u00a0<\/p>\n
About „Fantazja”<\/strong>
A woman whose feelings no one understands, a person who has wrapped your\u00a0packet of raisins in a far-off country whose name you don\u2019t know, a traveller who waits for the bus in front of you, a man who goes for a dive in a river\u2026 These are all characters in\u00a0Fantazja, and yet we don\u2019t get to see them onstage. They only exist in our imagination.\u00a0In this performance, Polish theatre author Anna Karasi\u0144ska explores theatre as a place where fiction becomes reality<\/strong>.\u00a0What contract do the audience and the artists conclude to bring a world into existence onstage that temporarily suspends our disbelief?\u00a0Does our imagination have limits?<\/strong>\u00a0Are there phenomena or things that we cannot imagine onstage? Using a live voice-over, Karasi\u0144ska directs the actors in a rapid mix of\u00a0minimalistic and humoristic scenes<\/strong>, in which\u00a0improvisation plays the leading role.<\/strong><\/p>\n
About Anna\u00a0Karasi\u0144ska\u00a0<\/strong>
Anna Karasi\u0144ska<\/a>\u00a0(\u00b01978) is a\u00a0theater director, filmmaker and playwright<\/strong>\u00a0who is seen as\u00a0one of the leading examples of the latest generation of theatre makers in Poland<\/strong>. As such, she has been alternatively described as a major proponent of 'post-theatre’ or 'auto-theatre’. Through the means of theatre, she questions the ways of communication between actors and the audience, problematizing the implicit hierarchy between performer and spectator in many conventional theatre performances. In this way she unmasks the mechanisms of art (re)production and how these are embedded in an institutional context.\u00a0Her work is important in today’s art scene in Poland, but also within the framework of Polish repertoire theatre. The latter is still strongly influenced by the legacy of nineteenth-century Polish Romanticism, a tradition which is crucial to understand how and why theatre in Poland is made in the way it is made. As a traditional carrier of Polish national identity, theatre institutions and practices hold a prominence within Polish society which is almost unparalleled in comparable Western European societies.<\/p>\n
About Marta Keil<\/strong>
Marta Keil<\/a>\u00a0is a performing arts curator, researcher and dramaturg. She co-runs the Performing Arts Institute based in Warsaw and curated together with Grzegorz Reske Konfrontacje in Teatralne (2012-2017) and in Teatr Polski in Bydgoszcz (2014-2016). She created and curates the EEPAP and teaches at the SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw. She is also the editor of the books\u00a0Choreography: Politicality\u00a0(2018),\u00a0Reclaiming the\u00a0Obvious:on the Institution of Festival\u00a0(2017),\u00a0Dance, Process, Artistic Research. Contemporary Dance in the Political, Economic and Social Context of \u201cFormer East\u201d of Europe\u00a0(2015).<\/p>\n
About Jonas Vanderschueren<\/strong>
Jonas Vanderschueren<\/a>\u00a0(\u00b01993) is a Belgian writer and researcher currently based in Warsaw. He writes regularly on Polish culture, theatre and politics, and has been published with\u00a0Etcetera,\u00a0MO*,\u00a0Knackand\u00a0Apache. For two years he was editor-in-chief of the Dutch-language literary magazine\u00a0Kluger Hans, and he worked as an intern at Nowy Teatr and Troubleyn\/Jan Fabre.<\/p>\n
PRACTICAL INFORMATION<\/strong><\/p>\n
>>>\u00a0Where<\/span>:\u00a0Zinnema,\u00a0Rue Veeweyde 24-26, 1070 Brussels –\u00a0map<\/a>
>>>\u00a0When<\/span>:\u00a030\/05 at 19:00 | 31\/05 at 20:30 | 01\/06 at 20:30<\/strong>
>>>\u00a0Tickets<\/span><\/a>: \u20ac 16 \/ \u20ac 13
>>>\u00a0Duration<\/span>: 1 hour
>>>\u00a0Language<\/span>:\u00a0Polish, French, Dutch<\/strong>
>>> More information\u00a0here<\/a><\/p>\n
>>>\u00a0Where: Zinnema,\u00a0Rue Veeweyde 24-26, 1070 Brussels –\u00a0map<\/a>
>>>\u00a0When:\u00a030\/05 at 20:00<\/strong>
>>>\u00a0With:\u00a0Anna Karasi\u0144ska\u00a0& Marta Keil<\/strong>
>>>\u00a0Language:\u00a0English<\/strong>
>>>\u00a0Moderator: Jonas Vanderschueren
>>>\u00a0FREE ENTRANCE<\/strong>
>>> In collaboration with\u00a0Etcetera<\/a>
>>> More information\u00a0here<\/a><\/p>\n