Plain of Weak Muscles online

Tuesday, May 26, 2020, 8:00 PM

  • Tuesday, May 26, 2020, 8:00 PM
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Renata Piotrowska-Auffret’s Plain of Weak Muscles is a performance that uses tools of experimental dance and theatre, and takes the closing of the libretto for Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring as its starting point.

Based on testimonies of contemporary women gathered by the artists, and the formula of the fairy tale and the witch, the production tells of strategies for abusing the female body, and deconstructs and transforms the power/violence narratives and mechanisms present in culture today. It also takes the stereotypical figure of the victim as a woman who is ”naturally” vulnerable to harm and looks for alternative stories of women’s bodies, designing a space for emancipation and a new mythology.

Renata Piotrowska-Auffret is connected to choreographic centres in Poland and Europe. She is a member of Centrum w Ruchu, a Warsaw collective of independent choreographers. 

Fragments of the choreography are inspired with the Sacrificial Dance from Nijinsky’s The Rite of Spring (1913) based on historical reconstruction Sacre #2 by Dominique Brun (2014) as conveyed by Clarisse Chanel.

Strobe lights and loud music are used in the performance.

For whom: for seniors
Other: free admission

Łaźnia Nowa Theatre

os. Szkolne 25

The Łaźnia Nowa is a venue for unconventional productions, concerts, meetings, and happenings that bring together artistic and community-based  activity. The main organiser of the Boska Komedia / Divine Comedy festival.

One of the latest arrivals on the Kraków theatre scene, the Łaźnia Nowa (literally ‘the New Baths’) has operated at osiedle Szkolne in Nowa Huta since 2005. Besides theatre performances, it is a venue of concerts, meetings, happenings, and projects combining artistic and community-based activity, that frequently go beyond the space of the theatre. The Łaźnia Nowa is a member of the Trans Europe Halles international association gathering institutions operating in post-industrial spaces, and is the organiser of the Boska Komedia / Divine Comedy International Theatre Festival.

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