EURIPIDES – TRANSITIONS
May 10-13, 2018
Thursday, May 10
20.30 Performances of Gardzienice Theater: ELEKTRA and IFIGENIA in Aulid (or IFIGENIA in Tauris) based on Euripides, dir. Włodzimierz Staniewski (approx. 40 minutes each) and the Integration Assembly led by the artists of Gardzienice (songs, orations, multimedia projections).
Friday, May 11 9.00-10.00 Workshop led by actors and musicians from Gardzienice
10.40-18.15 Conference:
10.40-11.00 Welcome speeches: Why Euripides in Gardzienice? – Włodzimierz Staniewski, Director of the Gardzienice Center for Theater Practices, lecturer at the Artes Liberales College, University of Warsaw; Robert Sucharski, Professor, Dean of the Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw Moderator: Jan Bremmer
11.00-11.30 Between madness and reason: Euripides and medical literature – Mr. Robin Lane Fox, Emeritus Fellow of New College, Oxford and Reader in Ancient History, University of Oxford
11.30-12.00 Ritual (s) of sacrifice in “Bacchae”. Towards the conclusion – Krzysztof Bielawski, Professor of the Institute of Classical Philology at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow
12.00-12.15 Euripides’ Bacchae: program notes for today’s performance of the Thiasos Theater – Yana Sistovari, Artistic Director of Thiasos Theater (London) and lecturer at the Department of Archives of Ancient Drama of Greece and Rome (APGRD), University of Oxford Moderator: Krzysztof Bielawski
12.45-13.15 Euripides’ new reading of “Bacchae” in performances from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries – Fiona Macintosh, Professor at the Department of Classical Philology and member of St Hilda’s College, and Director of the Archives of Greek and Roman Drama Staging (APGRD), Oxford University
13.15-13.45 The life and death of Adonis on the stage of ancient Greece and Rome – Aleksandra Klęczar, PhD at the Institute of Classical Philology of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow
13.45-14.15 Over joy and pain: Dionysus in the tragedies of Nicos Kazantzakis – Małgorzata Borowska, Professor at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
Moderator: Włodzimierz Staniewski
16-30-17.00 How People End (What They Are Left Behind) in Euripides’ Tragedies – Oliver Taplin, Professor Emeritus – Magdalen College, University of Oxford
Moderator: David Wiles
17.00-18.15 PANEL Euripides and emotions
Speakers are given 5 minutes to present their position on the title issue, followed by a discussion.
8:30 pm Thiasos Theater performance – “Bacchae” based on Euripides, dir. Yana Sistovari and MJ Coldiron (105 min.)
22.00 – Evening club
Saturday, May 12 9.00-10.00 Workshop: Working with a Greco-Roman helmet with a mask and its influence on performance techniques (use of voice, types of physical expression and creation) – MJ Coldiron, Doktor na World Performance, E15 Acting School, University of Essex and Associate Director, Thiasos Theater Company
11.00-18.15 Conference Moderator: Oliver Taplin
11.00-11.30 They, in any case, survived. Medea, Hekabe and Helena Euripidesa – Rush Rehm, Professor of Drama and Classics at Stanford University and Art Director of the Stanford Repertory Theater (California, USA)
11.30-12.00 Gender recontextualizations of Euripides’ character on the contemporary stage – Małgorzata Budzowska, Doctor at the Department of Classical Philology at the University of Łódź
12.00- 12.30 Euripides and women’s rhetoric – David Wiles, Professor Emeritus of Drama, University of Exeter, Great Britain
Moderator: Rush Rehm
13.00-13.30 Rites of passage in Euripides’ Alkestis – Jan Bremmer, Professor of Religious Studies and Theology, University of Groningen (Netherlands)
13.30-14.00 Death in a tragicomedy. Euripides’ Alkestis – Jadwiga Czerwińska, Professor, Department of Italian Studies, Department of Romance Philology, University of Łódź
14.00-14.30 Traces of an anti-Greek wedding and Euripides’ influence in Wyspiański’s “Wesele” – Włodzimierz Staniewski, Director of the Gardzienice Theater Practices Center, lecturer at the “Artes Liberales” College, University of Warsaw
Moderator: Aleksandra Klęczar
16.30-17.00 Met e… Euripides; fragment of ‘Met emoi’ as a founding myth of contemporary music – Jan Lech, Theater Ecology Studio at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
Moderator: Fiona Macintosh
17.00-18.30 PANEL: Euripides and the Gender case: How has thinking about Euripides and gender issues evolved over the last 20 years?
Speakers are given 5 minutes to present their position on the title issue, followed by a discussion.
20:30 Gardzienice Theater performance – “The Wedding”, dir. Włodzimierz Staniewski (60 min.)
22.00 – Evening club
Sunday, May 13
11: 30-13.00 Final discussion panel – summary of the Conference
EURYPIDES-INNOVATOR
2nd edition
May 11-15, 2017
artistic and scientific conference
Center for Theater Practices “Gardzienice”
in partnership with the Faculty of Artes Liberales at the University of Warsaw
The program included, among others:
Lectures by outstanding academics from the Universities of Oxford, Jagiellonian and Warsaw Universities and from artistic and scientific centers,
Performative lectures,
Practical workshops,
The premiere of a new reading of Euripides’ music and an artistic confrontation of previous and current interpretations,
Performances of the Gardzienice Theater,
Concert by Roberto Tangianu from Sardinia,
Exhibitions,
Film screenings,
Discussions.
Program:
Thursday, May 11, Gardzienice
20:00 Art event, Integration meeting including: a short film from the 1st International Conference “Euripides – Innovator”
2016 Friday, May 12, Gardzienice 9:00 – 10:00 Music workshop with Roberto Tangianu (with assistant) – Sardinia
11:00 – 15:00 Conference:
11:00 – 11:15 Włodzimierz Staniewski: Welcome – Director of the European Center for Theater Practices “Gardzienice”, lecturer at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales” of the University of Warsaw
11:15 – 12:15 Prof. Edith Hall: Euripides, Arts and Carpentry – Classical Department and Center for Hellenic Studies, King’s College, London (with discussion)
12:15 – 13:00 Dr. Rosie Wyles: Euripides as a Sculptor – Faculty of Classical and Archaeological Studies, University of Kent
13:00 – 13:30 Break
13:30 – 14:15 Dr. Aleksandra Klęczar: Euripides, Macedonia, Aleksander. The presence of Eurypidean motifs in the legend of Alexander the Great – Institute of Classical Philology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow
17:00 – 18:15 Conference:
17:00 – 17:45 Prof. Krzysztof Bielawski: Innovations in Euripides’ theology – Institute of Classical Philology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków
17: 45–18: 15 Jan Lech: Who will pull beautiful braids? Recomposing Euripides – Theater Ecology Studio at the Faculty of Artes Liberales,
University of Warsaw 20:00 Roberto Tangianu concert: launeddas (triple flute) –
Sardinia 22:00 Gardzienice Theater IFIGENIA IN A …
from 20:00 Evening club
Saturday, May 13, Gardzienice
9:00 – 10:00 Workshop with actors and musicians of the Gardzienice Theater
11:00 – 15:00 Conference:
11:00 – 13:00 Prof. Dr. Hab. Jerzy Axer: Hosting – Faculty of Artes Liberales, University of Warsaw
11:00 – 12:00 Prof. Armand D’Angour: Reviving Orestes: Sounds of the Choir – Jesus College, University of Oxford
12:00 – 13:00 Staniewski and Gardzienice Theater: Reconstructions or resurrection of ancient music relics? Presentations from Orestes and other monuments – EOPT Gardzienice and the Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
13:00 – 13:30 Break
1:30 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. Dr. Lucy Jackson: Euripides’ Choirs after Euripides – King’s College, London
14:15 – 15:00 Maciej Rychły: Finding Euripides’ traces – from sign to sound – Composer
17: 00–19: 00 Conference: Yana Sistovari and Thiasos Theater
17:00 – 17:20 Yana Sistovari: Earth Rebirth, Possession and Lamentation in Euripides’ Bacchae – Artistic Director of the Thiasos Theater, London
17:20 – 19:00 Ite Bakchai – to present Euripides’ Bacchae:
Agave’s Lament – Shelby Lynn Gilliam singing (Rose Bruford College and Thiasos Theater)
Bacchic landscapes of Sardinia and modern Greece – Salvatore Scarpa (Theater Thiasos)
Parodos of Bacchae, with pipes, drum and African mbira – Manuel Jimenez (Composer and Music Director of the Thiasos Theater) and Roberto Tangianu (triple flute)
21:00 Gardzienice ELEKTRA Theater
Academy for Theater Practices and actors of Gardzienice Theater SCENES FROM WEDDING
from 20:00 Evening club, talks, surprises
Sunday, May 14, Gardzienice
9:00 – 10:00 Workshop with actors and musicians of the Gardzienice Theater
11.00 – 12.00 Armand D’Angour, Maciej Rychły, Włodzimierz Staniewski: The sounds of ancient music – scientific research and practice, with presentations
Monday, May 15, Warsaw, Faculty of Artes Liberales, University of Warsaw, ul. Okay 72
17:30 – 19:00 Lecture by Armand D’Angour: Reviving Orestes: the sounds of the Choir, combined with the presentation of the Orestes reconstruction by Armand D’Angour – actors and musicians of Gardzienice Theater with Maciej Rychły; Moderator: Włodzimierz Staniewski
Euripides – Innovator
1st edition
May 13-15, 2016
International scientific and artistic conference
Conference schedule:
May 13, 2016 (Friday)
17:00 – 19:00 Workshops led by actors of the Thiasos Theater for approx. 50 students and actors from “Gardzienice” and all over Poland:
17:00 – 18:00 – Kecak
18:00 – 19:00 – mask workshops
20:00 Theater Marathon of the Gardzienice Theater
May 14, 2016 (Saturday)
9:00 – 10:00 Workshops led by the creators of the Thiasos Theater and the Gardzienice Theater)
11:00 – 15:55 Conference:
11: 00–11: 15 Włodzimierz Staniewski: Why Euripides in the Polish countryside
11:15 – 11:55 Yana Sistovari: Euripides as a Source of Innovation: Indonesian Dance Drama, Ancient Chorality and a New Ending for “Hippolytos”
12:05 – 12:35 Jadwiga Czerwińska: Innovativeness in Euripides’ dramaturgy
12:45 – 13:00 Discussion
13:15 – 13:45 Małgorzata Budzowska: Euripides’ Iphigenia on stage. Polish examples
13:55 – 14:25 Aleksandra Klęczar: The presence of Euripides in the Hellenistic drama
14:35 – 14:50 Wiktor Uhlig: Geography in Euripides: lands, landscapes, topographies
15:00 – 15:30 Włodzimierz Staniewski: European inspirations in stage techniques
15:40 – 15:55 Discussion
20:00 Hippolytos performance (Thiasos Theater)
21:00 Questions and Answers (20-30 min.)
May 15, 2016 (Sunday)
9:00 – 10:00 Workshops led by the creators of the Thiasos Theater and the Gardzienice Theater)
11:00 – 15:15 Conference:
11:00 – 11:30 Edith Hall: Some Aspects of Euripidean Theatrical Innovation
11:40 – 12:00 Jon Hesk: Character, conflict and contemporaneity: Euripides originality
12: 10– 12:25 Discussion
12:40 – 13:10 Małgorzata Borowska: Euripides: breaking conventions
13:20 – 13:50 Michael Earley: Euripides our contemporary
14:00 – 14:15 Jan Lech: Euripides in the field of music ecology. Sound sacrifice of “Iphigenia”
14:20 – 14:50 Krzysztof Bielawski: Euripides, poet gnomicus – tradition as innovation
15:00 – 15:15 Discussion
16:00 – 16:45 Theater of Thiasos: workshops and shows of traditional dances with live music and visuals