On Tuesday, March 8, on the International Day of Women’s (Rights) we showed our latest performance in the Hall of the Center for Contemporary Art “Laboratory” in Warsaw, as part of the “New Epiphanies” festival.
The author of all photographs is Marta Ankiersztejn. We invite you to watch!
We cordially invite you to the first show of the concert-performance “Little Thunder. Saint Catherine of Siena”, which will take place on March 5 at the headquarters of the Grotowski Institute in Wrocław “Na Grobli.
Details and all information are available in the event on Facebook:
The show ends over a month’s residency of the artistic group creating the performance in the forest base of the Institute in Brzezinka near Wrocław:
CREATORS AND PERFORMERS
Composer:
Katarzyna Szwed
Authors of the text:
Julianna Bloodgood
Danielle Blackbird
Director:
Julianna Bloodgood
Music Director:
Lilianna Krych
Artist:
Julianna Bloodgood
Olga Kunicka
Rhianna Compton
Paulina Krupa
Nene Barini
Sarai O’gara
Ditte Berkley
Rafal Habel
Project coordinator:
Radoslaw Wojcik
Production:
Warsaw Stage Society
The song “Little Thunder. Saint Catherine of Siena” was co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund as part of the “Compositional Commissions” program implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance.
The final concert ended with the First Master Vocal Course of Dr. hab. Jolanta Janucik prof. UMFC “WINTER IN YAROSLAVL”. During the Opera Evening at the Attavanti “Winter in Yaroslavl” arias from the most beautiful operas and operettas resounded. Congratulations on your great vocal skills. Such a concert will certainly remain in our memory for a long time Tourist and Cultural Information inJarosław City Hall of JarosławWarsaw Stage SocietyHappening in Jarosław – naszemiasto.plEkspres JarosławskiGazeta JarosławskaInformation portal nowiny24.plRadio FARAŻycie Podkarpackie
Throughout the week, participants of the First Master Vocal Course dr hab. Jolanta Janucik prof. UMFC “WINTER IN JAROSŁAW”, in the Mirror Hall of the Centre for Culture and Promotion in Jarosław, improve their opera singing skills.
The effects of these classes can be heard during the Opera Evening at the Attavanti “Winter in Yaroslavl”, which will take place tomorrow (11.02) in the Hall of Mirrors at 18:00.
We cordially invite you!
Free tickets apply.
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On March 8, 2022, during the New Epiphanies Festival, the premiere of Katarzyna Szwed’s musical and verbal work will take place in the building of the Laboratory of the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art. The work is based on the story of the life of St. John. Catherine of Siena and consists of seven vocal parts and an instrumental part. The premiere concert will be performed by an international group of musicians-actors led by Julianna Bloodgood. The producer of the event is the Warsaw Stage Society.
Katarzyna Szwed’s work is an attempt to reach the essence of the mystical experience of St. Catherine by conveying the deepest possible emotional and spiritual layers of the text. On stage, the artists try to convey the extreme, ecstatic and inevitably self-annihilating character of the main character’s mysticism. On the musical basis, this will manifest itself in a combination of radically expressive means with sublime and saturated with silence. Being aware of the historical context of the story being told, the composer refers to the Italian polyphony of the fourteenth century. It reaches back to the sources of both religious and folk music of that time. The work uses instruments from the era, including those that are a symbol of St. Catherine, which traditionally accompany her on portraits – bells and tambourines.
Concert “Little Thunder. Saint Catherine of Siena” is the result of field research in Italy, aimed at reaching authentic sources of knowledge about the context of The life of Saint Catherine. The authors managed to reach not only many organizations associated with the figure of St. Catherine and the impressive library collections of the Academia Chigiana in Siena, covering many source musical materials from the fourteenth century, but also literature on the musical life of Siena at that time.
The theatrical elements of the work refer to the tradition of the poor theatre of Jerzy Grotowski, from which the main soloists and originators of the project originate. With the help of economical but expressive means, the artists will try to evoke a state of total catharsis in the audience.
Most of the performers performed many times in Poland and formed part of the ensemble of the Song of the Goat Theatre in Wrocław. Most of them can be described as propagators and continuators of the tradition of poor theatre by Jerzy Grotowski.
CREATORS AND PERFORMERS
Composer:
Katarzyna Szwed
Authors of the text:
Julianna Bloodgood
Danielle Blackbird
Music Director:
Lilianna Krych
Artist:
Julianna Bloodgood
Olga Kunicka
Rhianna Compton
Paulina Krupa
Nene Barini
Sarai O’gara
Ditte Berkley
Rafal Habel
Project coordinator:
Radoslaw Wojcik
Production:
Warsaw Stage Society
The song “Little Thunder. Saint Catherine of Siena” was co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund as part of the “Compositional Commissions” program implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance.
Partners
This year, the Warsaw Stage Society organizes a winter vocal course in Jarosław. The initiator and artistic director of the course is Dr. hab. Jolanta Janucik, professor at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw.
Prof. dr hab. will also lead his singing class. Robert Cieśla (UMFC).
Classes will take place in the Jarosław Abbey and in the Mirror Hall of the Center for Promotion and Culture in Jarosław, which is a partner of the event.
Detailed information about the courses is available on the event website:
We also invite you to Jarosław itself – a beautiful Podkarpackie city with rich, multicultural traditions!
In order to implement this unique project, an international group of musicians-actors was established under the leadership of Julianna Bloodgood. The authors of the multilingual text of the work are Danielle Blackbird – a researcher of medieval culture and playwright and Julianna Bloodgood – actress, singer and dancer, Polish resident since 2009. The premiere of the work will take place on March 8, followed by presentations in Italy (Siena, or. Rome and Sant’Antimo) .
The concert-performance “Little thunder” is the result of field research in Italy, aimed at reaching authentic sources of knowledge about the context of St. Catherine’s life. The authors managed to reach not only many organizations associated with the figure of St. Catherine and the impressive library collections of the Academia Chigiana in Siena, covering many source musical materials from the fourteenth century, but also literature on the musical life of Siena at that time.
However, in order for the performance to be as deep as possible in its expression, we would like to use it – that is, buy or rent several instruments (bells, psaltery, duduk, drums). We would also like to invite you to Brzezinka, where we will spend the whole of February, invite a real master of playing traditional drums (frame drumes) to the workshop. We believe that this will add a completely different quality to our work.
Unfortunately, the grants obtained so far are not enough for this purpose. You can help us by adding a penny to the collection, we cordially invite you and thank you in advance!
