Electric Party Songs
Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards
15/10/2010
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22:30
Open Program of the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards
Directed by: Mario Biagini
Featuring: Itahisa Borges Méndez, Lloyd Bricken, Cinzia Cigna, Davide Curzio, Marina Gregory, Timothy Hopfner, Agnieszka Kazimierska, Felicita Marcelli, Alejandro Tomás Rodriguez, Chrystèle Saint-Louis Augustin, Julia Ulehla.
Poetic texts by: Allen Ginsberg
Music: Open Program – Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards
For the Allen Ginsberg texts, Copyright © by the Allen Ginsberg Trust, used with permission of The Wylie Agency LLC.
Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards would like to thank
"Bill Reichblum & Kadmus, Inc." for their support
Running time: 1h 30 min
The Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards presents Electric Party Songs, created by the Workcenter's Open Program, under the direction of the Workcenter's Associate Director, Mario Biagini. Open Program performs a flow of songs and actions based on the poetry of American poet Allen Ginsberg (1927-1997). The members of this international group elaborated and composed all of the songs, approaching the meanings, rhythms and sounds of the spoken texts as the seeds of musical and dramatic creation. Their varied backgrounds generate a stylistically diverse body of music, drawing inspiration from blues, rock, pop, opera, punk, and traditional sources. Within this research, the team weaved its investigation on traditional songs of the South of the United States, on their possibilities of triggering performative processes and their potentialities of catalysing contacts and interactions.
In an informal and intimate context within small social gathering spaces, Electric Party Songs take place inviting and welcoming the spectators in a close proximity in relation to the center of the action.
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Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards
Grotowski arrived in Pontedera, Italy in 1986, and founded the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski. At the Workcenter, Grotowski developed a line of “performance research” known as Art as vehicle for 13 years until his death in 1999. Within this creative investigation, he worked very closely with Thomas Richards whom he called his “essential collaborator,” eventually changing the name of the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski to include that of Richards. During those years of intense practical work, Grotowski transmitted to Richards the fruit of his lifetime research, what he called “the inner aspect of the work.” Grotowski entrusted Richards and Mario Biagini, a key member of the Workcenter team since its beginnings and presently its Associate Director, as the sole legatees of his Estate, including his entire body of written work, specifying this resignation as a confirmation of his “family of work.” Since Grotowski’s passing in 1999, Richards and Biagini have been continuing to develop the Workcenter’s performing
arts research in new directions.
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