We’re all, by the standard definition of the word, migrating, moving from place to place, hither and yon. Atoms migrate within molecules. Birds between hemispheres. The world moves and, deep inside, we long to move with it. Suspended between past and future, our memories and secret dreams, personal and collective, believing we're unique and free, we embark for a journey into Unknown following the crooked paths pre-mapped by others, always driven by urge and desires, burdened by own inhibitions. Day by day we confront with each other, defining our individuality through constructed narratives and self-narratives, navigating through organized chaos and ephemeral landscapes, always wrecking to the rocks we meet. Birds of thorny bushes in a constant search of promised lands, (e)migrating in and out in denial finding ourselves in trap of our mind and bodies...
Tickets available at Old Brewery information points (ul. Półwiejska 42).
Performance realized in cooperation with Music and Dance Institute in the frame of Zamówienia choreograficzne 2014 program. The event is co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland. With support of The Kingdom of Netherlands.
Sjoerd Vreugdenhil
He is a graduate of the Royal Conservatory in The Hague and the Rotterdam Dance Academy. As a soloist, he danced with the Zurich Ballet and, for six years, with Ballett Frankfurt, where he made two pieces incl Fat Peggy's Sober Property (2001). He has also completed a course in architecture at the Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam. Apart from his own projects produced by his foundation StichtingTroublespoon, Sjoerd Vreugdenhil has made choreographies for companies like Dansgroep Krisztina de Chatel, Scapino Ballet Rotterdam, Dansgroep Amsterdam, Dance Works Rotterdam, Codarts Rotterdam, Korzo Theater, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Staatsoper unter den Linden Berlin, Berliner Philharmonic, Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Semperoper Dresden and many more.
Direction, overall design concept: Sjoerd Vreugdenhil
Choreography: Sjoerd Vreugdenhil in close collaboration with the dancers
Performed by: Urszula Bernat-Jałocha (PTT soloist), Agnieszka Kryst, Ramona Nagabczyńska, Janusz Orlik, Kasia Sitarz, Tomek Pomersbach, Paweł Sakowicz
Music: Szymon Brzóska
Musicians: Barbara Drążkiewicz, Emilia Goch
Electronic music: Kiriakos Spirou
Extra music: J.S.Bach, Jerzy Petersburgski
Costumes, set design: Klaudia Filipiak, Kinga Korbalewska, Julia Grabowska, Magda Mojsiejuk, Maja Barańska, Agata Birek, Sławek Krzyżak (School of Form)
Light design: Sjoerd Vreugdenhil
Production: Art Stations Foundation by Grażyna Kulczyk
Acknowledgments: Jola Starzak, Dawid Strebicki, Wojtek Dziecic, Agnieszka Jacobson-Cielecka for making the collaboration with the School of Form possible.