We have a final act ahead of us, bowing to the Spectators who, while surviving the Theatre, have become part of it. Half a century. Anxiety, passing, leaving. A look at the past and future.”
Since I had co-founded and organized this task with Conrad Drzewiecki before half a century ago, I agreed all period during the jubilee period to first evenings, during which I mentioned the most crucial characters from the past of PTT, starting with Conrad, Śliwa, Juszka, Chynowski, Voelkel, Pastor, and on Wycichowska and Pasińska, as finalists of this far incomplete list, ending.
These evenings gathered many people who remembered the full past of the modern ballet facility. Her current principal, Iwona Pasińska, drew an first but risky conclusion from this. She gathered around her a group of balletgoers even older than PTT and persuaded us to participate in the artistic venture we witnessed at the premiere on 22 June 2024. She reached out to the inspired poem Op. 29 Sergei Rachmaninov "The Island of the Dead", which the composer created impressed by the painting seen in Paris in 1907 with the title of Swiss artist Arnold Böcklin.
Iwona Pasińska called her phase imagination of this music "The performance essay co-created with the Seniors" and utilized 16 old Poznań ballet dancers gathered around her, who performed on phase arranged amphitheatrely in 4 rows, first behind the tulle curtain which was besides a screen for displaying the mural, and then sitting (of this age even desirable!) and performing a busy evolution of the hands in which they held the flashlights- skylights, which in conjunction with the playing of lights and the sound of music created a temper of reflection, depression and depression.
But there were only 15 of them on phase (wakat in the 3rd row on the left), which meant to me that 1 of the motionless dancers was late or sick or simply had something more crucial to do. Who thinks I'm trying to joke? Pasińska is not the first to effort to draw into the magic of her ideas of choreographed aged elderly seniors (in this case the sex of specified a woman!). late it was successfully done by Paweł Mikołajczak in 1 of the elder Houses, and in the planet it happens more and more often.
If it does not return to the dancers who had previously taken their pensions, specified a “Island of the Dead” will should be played very frequently in all ballet bands. This form of binding viewers to the scene of the movement is simply a risky but bold procedure, extending the functionality of the fresh large office of the Polish Dance Theatre at 8 Taczaka Street in Poznań. Risky, due to the fact that these elegant, yet age-old acquaintances can be so fond of phase successes that they request another prime minister, having their own audience in the form of families, friends, friends and surviving peers.
The initiative of Iwona Pasińska and her squad to grow the activities of the fresh PTT office is simply a consequence of the success she achieved by building, organizing and filling this place with fresh ideas. It turns out that my first evenings will besides proceed next season. We are reasoning about presenting the characters and works of leading Polish choreographers of the 20th century. I would start with Wacław Niżyński. Let us not forget that he is simply a Pole, not a Russian, although educated in Petersburg and acting as a star of the Parisian seasons of Russian Ballets Sergius Diagilev in Paris. Then 1 should take care of Leon Wójcikowski's legacy, and of postwar choreographers Felix Parnell, Stanisław Misczyk, Eugeniusz Papliński, Jerzy Kapliński, Janina Jarzinina-Sobczak, Witold Gruca, Teresa Kujawska, Witold Borkowski, not forgetting Conrad Drzewicki, whom we mention in Poznań at all times of the year.
Last season, ladies who were heroes of the premiere of the Dead Islands came to my evenings.. Also inviting them next season, I want you a good remainder during the beginning of the summer. After all, we are waiting for many events at the fresh PTT headquarters, which has the chance to become the first ballet home of Culture in Poland for generations from youth to... as in the title!
