{"id":7372,"date":"2023-01-10T16:43:41","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T15:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/?p=7372"},"modified":"2023-03-12T23:30:20","modified_gmt":"2023-03-12T22:30:20","slug":"han-directed-by-thomas-richards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/2023\/01\/10\/han-directed-by-thomas-richards\/","title":{"rendered":"HAN! directed by Thomas Richards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>East Coast Premiere of HAN!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:12px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wl.seetickets.us\/event\/Han-directed-by-Thomas-Richards-Italy-American-Premiere\/524997?afflky=JerseyCityTheaterCenter\"><strong>TICKETS<\/strong><\/a> <strong>HAN! at White Eagle Hall<\/strong><br>February 9, 2023 at 7pm ET<br>337 Newark Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07302<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wl.seetickets.us\/event\/A-Masterclass-with-Thomas-Richards-The-Potential-of-Song\/525000?afflky=JerseyCityTheaterCenter\"><strong>TICKETS<\/strong><\/a> <strong>Three Days Workshop<\/strong> <strong>at<\/strong> <strong>JCTC Studios<\/strong><br>February 14-16 at 6-9pm ET&nbsp;<br>165 Newark Avenue, Jersey City, NJ 07302<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lamama.org\/shows\/han-2023\">TICKETS<\/a><\/strong> <strong>HAN! at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club<\/strong><br>February 23-March 12, 2023<br>66 E 4th St, New York, NY 10003<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lamama.org\/shows\/the-potential-of-song-2023\">TICKETS<\/a><\/strong> <strong>The Potential of Song: A Masterclass with Thomas Richards<\/strong><br>Assisted by Jessica Losilla-H\u00e9brail and Hyun Ju Baek<br>February 28-March 2, 2023 at 11am-2pm ET<br>La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club<br>66 E 4th St, New York, NY 10003<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/2023\/02\/08\/coffeehouse-chronicles-170-jerzy-grotowski-and-thomas-richards-at-la-mama-etc\/\"><strong>TICKETS<\/strong><\/a> <strong>Coffeehouse Chronicles #170: Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards<\/strong><br>March 4, 2023 at 3pm ET<br>La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club<br>66 E 4th St, New York, NY 10003<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Columbia College in Chicago: Workshop with Students<\/strong><br>March 14-16, 2023<br>600 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chopintheatre.com\/\"><strong>TICKETS<\/strong><\/a> <strong>HAN! at Chopin Theatre<\/strong><br>March 17-19 and March 24-26, 2023<br>1543 West Division, Chicago, IL 60642<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:36px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>HAN!<\/em><\/strong><em>&nbsp;<\/em>is directed by&nbsp;<strong>Thomas Richards<\/strong>, theater director and former Artistic Director of the<strong>&nbsp;Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards<\/strong>&nbsp;in Pontedera, Italy. There, he began as the prot\u00e9g\u00e9 and then essential collaborator of famed Polish director and performing arts theorist<strong>&nbsp;Jerzy Grotowski<\/strong>, considered to have been one of the greatest reformers of 20th century theater and one of the founders of experimental theater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c[Han] is not an easy word to understand. It has generally been understood as a sort of resentment. But I think it means both sadness and hope at the same time. You can think of Han as the core of life, the pathway leading from birth to death&#8230;\u201d Park Kyon-ni (1994)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An ancient dance is performed under a neon light. A virgin ghost stares out of the TV. A baby left alone in an apartment meditates on the nature of solitude. A woman explores memories of her life in relation to the Korean concept of Han.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our heroine moves back and forth between the ancient myths of \u201cGojoseon,\u201d the era of her dead grandmother, her mother\u2019s past and her own life. Three generations of Korean women bound together in the \u201cresilient silence\u201d of Han. How will she navigate the sea of expectations that life, family, and nation have thrown her way? Through her struggle to understand the complexity of her own Han, which ignites a fire in her mind, we are carried into a dynamic meditation that explores the no man\u2019s land that exists between myth and modernity, as we weigh the relation between suffering, sacrifice, and destiny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Directed by&nbsp;<strong>Thomas Richards<\/strong>; Assistant Directors: <strong>C\u00e9cile Richards<\/strong> and&nbsp;<strong>Jessica Losilla-H\u00e9brail<\/strong><br>The show is&nbsp;in Korean with English subtitles performed by&nbsp;<strong>Hyun Ju Baek<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wl.seetickets.us\/event\/A-Masterclass-with-Thomas-Richards-The-Potential-of-Song\/525000?afflky=JerseyCityTheaterCenter\"><strong>TICKETS<\/strong><\/a> <strong>Three Days Workshop<\/strong><br>February 14-16 at 10am-1pm ET&nbsp;<br><strong>JCTC Studios<\/strong><br>165 Newark Avenue, Jersey City, NJ 07302<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Potential of Song<\/strong>: A Masterclass with Thomas Richards<br>assisted by Jessica Losilla-H\u00e9brail and Hyun Ju Baek<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This Masterclass, led by&nbsp;<strong>Thomas Richards<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;and assisted by members of Theatre No Theatre, will introduce each participant to an exploration of work on songs of tradition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The workshop will consist of practical sessions of work on songs coming from Afro-Caribbean and African traditions, which have been at the core of Richards\u2019 performing arts research for over 30 years. Such work on song explores the potential impact that the rhythmic and melodic qualities of certain songs of tradition can have on the persons who sing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Thomas Richards<\/strong><br><strong>Thomas Richards<\/strong>&nbsp;was born in 1962 in New York City. He began working with&nbsp;<strong>Jerzy Grotowski<\/strong>&nbsp;at the University of California-Irvine, and followed him to Italy in 1986, where he worked first as his assistant at the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski, then went on to become a group leader, creator, director, and finally Artistic Director. In 1996, Grotowski changed the name of the institution to The Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards, because, as he indicated, the direction of the practical work had already concentrated itself in Richards\u2019 hands. Mr. Richards, who holds a B.A. from Yale University, an M.A. from the University of Bologna, and the Ph.D. from the University of Paris, is the author of three books:&nbsp;At Work with Grotowski on Physical Actions&nbsp;(1993),&nbsp;The Edge-Point of Performance&nbsp;(1995), and&nbsp;Heart of Practice: Within the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards&nbsp;(2008). Following Grotowski\u2019s death in 1999, Richards took over as director of the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards and together with Mario&nbsp;Biagini&nbsp;he is considered Grotowski\u2019s \u2018universal heir\u2019. As Grotowski wrote, &#8222;The nature of my work with Thomas Richards has the character of \u2018transmission\u2019; to transmit to him that to which I have arrived in my life: the&nbsp;inner&nbsp;aspect of the work.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In January of 2022 Richards closed the doors of the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards and together with several ex-colleagues of the Workcenter opened the new Cultural Association<strong>, Theatre No Theatre<\/strong>, which has inherited its artistic existence directly from the Workcenter, since it is dedicated to supporting the new theatre research of Thomas Richards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Jerzy Grotowski<\/strong><br><strong>Jerzy Grotowski<\/strong>&nbsp;(born August 11, 1933,&nbsp;Rzesz\u00f3w, Poland\u2014died January 14, 1999, Pontedera, Italy)&nbsp;Considered one of the most important and influential theatre practitioners of the 20<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;century,&nbsp;<strong>Jerzy Grotowski&nbsp;<\/strong>revolutionized contemporary theatre. Beginning in 1959 with his early experiments in the Polish town of&nbsp;Opole&nbsp;and later with the Polish Laboratory Theatre in&nbsp;Wroclaw, Grotowski changed the way Western theatre practitioners and performance theorists conceive of the audience\/actor relationship, theatre staging, and the craft of acting. This phase of his theatrical work, also called \u201cpoor theatre,\u201d was the basis for one of the most influential theatre books of the 20th century:&nbsp;<em><strong>Towards a Poor Theatre&nbsp;<\/strong><\/em><strong>(1968).<\/strong>&nbsp;After abandoning the \u201ctheatre of productions,\u201d Grotowski continued to push the boundaries of conventional theatre, first in his paratheatrical work, and later in his performance research, which took him to&nbsp;India,&nbsp;Mexico,&nbsp;Haiti, and elsewhere, in search of the traditional performance practices of various cultures (Theatre of Sources, 1976-82). This work led Grotowski to his identification of particular abiding elements of ritual traditions (Objective Drama, 1983-86). In the final phase of his work Grotowski explored the far reaches of the performance continuum, which he traced from \u201cArt as presentation\u201d toward what has been called \u201cArt as Vehicle.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:38px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"145\" src=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-10-at-10.52.45-AM-1024x145.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-10-at-10.52.45-AM-1024x145.png 1024w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-10-at-10.52.45-AM-300x43.png 300w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-10-at-10.52.45-AM-768x109.png 768w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-10-at-10.52.45-AM.png 1482w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>East Coast Premiere of HAN! 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There, he began as the prot\u00e9g\u00e9 and then essential collaborator of famed Polish director and performing arts theorist Jerzy Grotowski, considered to have been one of the greatest reformers of 20th century theater and one of the founders of experimental theater.\\n\u201c[Han] is not an easy word to understand. It has generally been understood as a sort of resentment. But I think it means both sadness and hope at the same time. You can think of Han as the core of life, the pathway leading from birth to death...\u201d Park Kyon-ni (1994)\\nAn ancient dance is performed under a neon light. A virgin ghost stares out of the TV. A baby left alone in an apartment meditates on the nature of solitude. A woman explores memories of her life in relation to the Korean concept of Han.\\nOur heroine moves back and forth between the ancient myths of \u201cGojoseon,\u201d the era of her dead grandmother, her mother\u2019s past and her own life. 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Such work on song explores the potential impact that the rhythmic and melodic qualities of certain songs of tradition can have on the persons who sing.\\nAbout Thomas RichardsThomas Richards was born in 1962 in New York City. He began working with Jerzy Grotowski at the University of California-Irvine, and followed him to Italy in 1986, where he worked first as his assistant at the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski, then went on to become a group leader, creator, director, and finally Artistic Director. In 1996, Grotowski changed the name of the institution to The Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards, because, as he indicated, the direction of the practical work had already concentrated itself in Richards\u2019 hands. Mr. Richards, who holds a B.A. from Yale University, an M.A. from the University of Bologna, and the Ph.D. from the University of Paris, is the author of three books: At Work with Grotowski on Physical Actions (1993), The Edge-Point of Performance (1995), and Heart of Practice: Within the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards (2008). Following Grotowski\u2019s death in 1999, Richards took over as director of the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards and together with Mario Biagini he is considered Grotowski\u2019s \u2018universal heir\u2019. As Grotowski wrote, \\\"The nature of my work with Thomas Richards has the character of \u2018transmission\u2019; to transmit to him that to which I have arrived in my life: the inner aspect of the work.\\\"\\nIn January of 2022 Richards closed the doors of the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards and together with several ex-colleagues of the Workcenter opened the new Cultural Association, Theatre No Theatre, which has inherited its artistic existence directly from the Workcenter, since it is dedicated to supporting the new theatre research of Thomas Richards.\\nAbout Jerzy GrotowskiJerzy Grotowski (born August 11, 1933, Rzesz\u00f3w, Poland\u2014died January 14, 1999, Pontedera, Italy) Considered one of the most important and influential theatre practitioners of the 20th century, Jerzy Grotowski revolutionized contemporary theatre. 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There, he began as the prot\u00e9g\u00e9 and then essential collaborator of famed Polish director and performing arts theorist Jerzy Grotowski, considered to have been one of the greatest reformers of 20th century theater and one of the founders of experimental theater.\n\u201c[Han] is not an easy word to understand. It has generally been understood as a sort of resentment. But I think it means both sadness and hope at the same time. You can think of Han as the core of life, the pathway leading from birth to death...\u201d Park Kyon-ni (1994)\nAn ancient dance is performed under a neon light. A virgin ghost stares out of the TV. A baby left alone in an apartment meditates on the nature of solitude. A woman explores memories of her life in relation to the Korean concept of Han.\nOur heroine moves back and forth between the ancient myths of \u201cGojoseon,\u201d the era of her dead grandmother, her mother\u2019s past and her own life. Three generations of Korean women bound together in the \u201cresilient silence\u201d of Han. How will she navigate the sea of expectations that life, family, and nation have thrown her way? Through her struggle to understand the complexity of her own Han, which ignites a fire in her mind, we are carried into a dynamic meditation that explores the no man\u2019s land that exists between myth and modernity, as we weigh the relation between suffering, sacrifice, and destiny.\nDirected by Thomas Richards; Assistant Directors: C\u00e9cile Richards and Jessica Losilla-H\u00e9brailThe show is in Korean with English subtitles performed by Hyun Ju Baek.\nTICKETS Three Days WorkshopFebruary 14-16 at 10am-1pm ET JCTC Studios165 Newark Avenue, Jersey City, NJ 07302\nThe Potential of Song: A Masterclass with Thomas Richardsassisted by Jessica Losilla-H\u00e9brail and Hyun Ju Baek\nThis Masterclass, led by Thomas Richards  and assisted by members of Theatre No Theatre, will introduce each participant to an exploration of work on songs of tradition.\nThe workshop will consist of practical sessions of work on songs coming from Afro-Caribbean and African traditions, which have been at the core of Richards\u2019 performing arts research for over 30 years. Such work on song explores the potential impact that the rhythmic and melodic qualities of certain songs of tradition can have on the persons who sing.\nAbout Thomas RichardsThomas Richards was born in 1962 in New York City. He began working with Jerzy Grotowski at the University of California-Irvine, and followed him to Italy in 1986, where he worked first as his assistant at the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski, then went on to become a group leader, creator, director, and finally Artistic Director. In 1996, Grotowski changed the name of the institution to The Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards, because, as he indicated, the direction of the practical work had already concentrated itself in Richards\u2019 hands. Mr. Richards, who holds a B.A. from Yale University, an M.A. from the University of Bologna, and the Ph.D. from the University of Paris, is the author of three books: At Work with Grotowski on Physical Actions (1993), The Edge-Point of Performance (1995), and Heart of Practice: Within the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards (2008). Following Grotowski\u2019s death in 1999, Richards took over as director of the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards and together with Mario Biagini he is considered Grotowski\u2019s \u2018universal heir\u2019. As Grotowski wrote, \"The nature of my work with Thomas Richards has the character of \u2018transmission\u2019; to transmit to him that to which I have arrived in my life: the inner aspect of the work.\"\nIn January of 2022 Richards closed the doors of the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards and together with several ex-colleagues of the Workcenter opened the new Cultural Association, Theatre No Theatre, which has inherited its artistic existence directly from the Workcenter, since it is dedicated to supporting the new theatre research of Thomas Richards.\nAbout Jerzy GrotowskiJerzy Grotowski (born August 11, 1933, Rzesz\u00f3w, Poland\u2014died January 14, 1999, Pontedera, Italy) Considered one of the most important and influential theatre practitioners of the 20th century, Jerzy Grotowski revolutionized contemporary theatre. Beginning in 1959 with his early experiments in the Polish town of Opole and later with the Polish Laboratory Theatre in Wroclaw, Grotowski changed the way Western theatre practitioners and performance theorists conceive of the audience\/actor relationship, theatre staging, and the craft of acting. This phase of his theatrical work, also called \u201cpoor theatre,\u201d was the basis for one of the most influential theatre books of the 20th century: Towards a Poor Theatre (1968). After abandoning the \u201ctheatre of productions,\u201d Grotowski continued to push the boundaries of conventional theatre, first in his paratheatrical work, and later in his performance research, which took him to India, Mexico, Haiti, and elsewhere, in search of the traditional performance practices of various cultures (Theatre of Sources, 1976-82). This work led Grotowski to his identification of particular abiding elements of ritual traditions (Objective Drama, 1983-86). 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