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Aurora Lubos

Performing Poland – Acts 16

The Grotowski Institute

Director: Aurora Lubos

45 minutes, without breaks.

The piece is based on real stories of domestic violence and was conceived in reaction to reading letters and talking to people who experienced harassment. It draws on artistic classes run in support centres for abuse victims, which are mostly women and children:
I want to enable those who cannot scream in their defence to start talking. So that they could speak about their entanglement, helplessness, their yearning for silence. I conceived it as a sequence of acts - fragments of texts, exits, dissolution, images.

Direction, choreography, stage design and performance:
Aurora Lubos

Zeneszerző:
Motion Trio-Stars

Director

Aurora Lubos

ACS

Artus Contemporary Art Studio, Budapest

Aurora Lubos

AURORA LUBOS has been associated with dance scene since 1997, cooperating, among others, with the Gdańsk Dance Theater, the Baltic Sea Cultural Center in Gdańsk, the Baltic University of Dance, the Dada von Bzdülöw Theater, the Elevator Club at the Gdańsk Archipelago of Culture, the Żak Club in Gdańsk, and the Specialist Support Center for Of Victims of Domestic Violence in Rusocin. Since 2000, the actress of the English theater Vincent Dance Theater. The author of several original realizations: solo (“Zanzibar”, “Unfinished”, “Knife, Horse and Stairs”, “Akty”, “Not allowed”, “Hello/ Welcome”, “Ziemia”), installations (“Still Alive”, “Food Cycle”, “Without Home”), performances (“Akt1”, “4 Kąty”, “Act for Two – Shrovetide”, “From Water”), short animations (“Winter 2010” series), visual-verbal broadcasts (“Antoni Kępiński during the plague”, “Gertrude Finkler – Artist in the field and in the yard”, “Artist in the street”), a performance installation (“Go, dance with your grandfather”) and video (“Ziemia 1”, “Ziemia 2”). “Akty” was shown as part of the Polish Dance Platform 2014 and in many places in Poland and abroad. In 2019, together with Honorata Martin, Oskar Martin, AnnaDomańska and Emilia Orzechowska, she founded the Arbuz Association – an audiovisual mobile studio that works for refugees.

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