Description
At the workshop within the range of the Youth Creative Practices Laboratory we will create short theatre, dance and video forms, we will tell and write stories.
Participants will take part in two thematic blocks led by Ukrainian artists from the Creative Studio Foundation and by performer Łukasz Wójcicki from the Strefa WolnoSłowa Foundation.
The workshop takes place in the workshop room at the Zygmunt Hübner Powszechny Theatre in Warsaw.
The workshop is free of charge and will be held in Polish, English and Ukrainian.
BLOCK: Movement, video, art
Would you like to get to know yourself better and communicate more easily with others and with the world? We have different artistic languages for that! Our language is movement, art and video.
Together we will create a safe space for creativity.
Our formula: 50 litres of paint + 30 kg of clay + 100 m of paper + free movement + terabyte of memory + fantasy = freedom.
Leading: CREATIVE STUDIOS, Poland
Lena Holosii - film and theatre director, studied at Kyiv's I. Karpenki-Kary National University of Theatre, Film and Television. Studied at the Laboratory of New Theatre Practices at SWPS. Co-founder of Creative Studios Foundation, which aims to engage children, young people and all interested parties in socially relevant projects in the field of culture. Recent directing projects include the performance Borderline at the Rampa Theatre, the documentary While the War Going On and video content for the performance Top 10 Events of 2022 - Disappearing Ranking at the Gustaw Holoubek Drama Theatre in Warsaw.
Nataliia Datsenko - director, actress, writer, performer, art-pedagogue and curator of artistic and educational projects in Ukraine and abroad. Founder of Kraft-theatre ArtBaggage and co-founder of Creative Studios foundation.
BLOCK: Performance, dance improvisation,
experimental theatre
A workshop in movement, dance improvisation, performance and experimental theatre. In this class we will explore different techniques and practices from the field of performing arts (theatre, dance, choreography, performance, music). We will explore together how they can be combined and what comes out of it. The aim of the class is to stimulate imagination and creativity and at the same time have an openness to ignorance, uncertainty and failure. Art is about exploration, asking questions and being ready for what comes. Together we will break patterns and experiment using artistic tools.
Conducting:
Łukasz Wójcicki - performer, dancer, choreographer, counterculture animator, researcher, playwright. Graduate of the 3rd Academy for Theatre Practices ‘Gardzienice’, the two-year course ‘Experimental Choreography’ of the Centre in Movement and the IC School For A New Dance Development at the Amsterdam University of the Arts. His field of interest is the politicity of the body, social choreography, the deconstruction of privilege, patriarchy and normativity. He explores new forms of presence in the context of environmental catastrophe, the crisis of capitalism and decolonisation. From 2008-18 performer and dancer with the Komuna Warszawa theatre company. In 2013-16 performer and assistant director in the performance ‘RequieMaszyna’ by Marta Górnicka and the Chorus of Women. Since 2016 he has been involved as a performer and choreographer with the socio-artistic activities of the Strefa WolnoSłowa foundation, where he works with the young and adult migrant community of Warsaw. Winner of the Europe Beyond Access programme ‘Dance and Disability. Crossing borders' (2020), Visegrad Artist Residency Program-Performing Arts (2021). Scholarship holder of the City of Warsaw (2022) and the Minister of Culture (2024) in the category ‘Dance’. Since 2019 he has been associated with the Theatre and Social Laboratory of the Association of Theatre Educators.
Workshop schedule:
Workshop schedule:
08.03.2025, 22.03.2025, 2.00-5.00 p.m.
05.04.2025, 26.04.2025, 2.00-5.00 p.m.
10.05.2025, 31.05.2025, 2.00-5.00 p.m.
07.06.2025, 14.06.2025, 2.00-5.00 p.m.
Join the workshop
Join the workshop whenever you want!
If interested, please email lukas@strefawolnoslowa.pl
Financing
The Youth Laboratory of Creative Practices is part of the NEW SPACE project co-financed by the European Union and the Courage, Freedom, Imagination - Creative Laboratory project co-financed by the City of Warsaw.
