Description
Youth Creative Practices Laboratory is a series of workshops for young people focused on a democratic and egalitarian creative process within the field of performative arts. This means creating a safe space for psycho-sexual and neurodivergent diversity, not only in the creative realm but also in the existential one. It is also a space for ignorance, uncertainty, and indecision in artistic and life choices. It includes integrating the potential of failure into the creative process. We primarily work using practices, tools, and strategies from experimental choreography, new dance, critical performance, and post-dramatic theatre.
We invite young people from diverse social, cultural, and religious backgrounds to join us in this collective endeavor. In 2023, during a several-month creative process, a performative show titled Ritual was created, in which we explored together with the youth whether a ritual today is merely a relic of the past, a mythical bond of culture, an anachronistic social function, now only present in self-awareness courses, re-connect workshops, and nature retreat camps.
Creators
Participants of the Youth Laboratory of Creative Practices 2023:
Melaniia Konstantinova, Svitlana Makedon, Oleksandra Vovkodav, Nazar Sokhan
During the workshops in 2024, a group of young people used artistic tools from the field of performative arts to tell a story about a topic that is important to them: the climate crisis. Sometimes more literally, sometimes more poetically, but each time it was a poignant narrative about the ecological crisis they are living through.
Colophon
The performative show as part of the finale of the Youth Laboratory of Creative Practices took place as part of the celebration of World Refugee Day in June 2024.
Performers:
Lydia Kaszuba, Maniek Żuchowski, Nadia Dideńko, Ellina Maroz, Ola Kalodzina, Nikola Białas, Arek Gliński, Szymon Kijowski, Krzysztof “Rodryk” Szczepankowski, Walentyna Rymar, Elizaveta Samkova, Ester Stencel, Julia Rola
Artistic supervision and creative process:
Łukasz Lukas Wójcicki
Process support:
Stanley Ndua
The Youth Laboratory of Creative Practices is co-financed by the capital city of Warsaw. Warsaw as part of the Courage, Freedom, Imagination - creative laboratory project and the RE-THINK THE CHALLENGE project financed by the Allianz Foundation.
