ORDERS, PROPHECIES, PERFORMATICS – Gardzienice, 26-28 September 2013
Thursday, September 26
18.30–20.30 Session I: Association of the Gardzienice Theater with Delphi, leading to the filming of IFIGENIA W A … and the continuation of the PYTHIAN WORATORIUM. Moderator: Krzysztof Bielawski
6.30 pm – 7.00 pm Welcome: Włodzimierz Staniewski Welcome dialogue: Edith Hall and Włodzimierz Staniewski
19.00–19.30 Oliver Taplin (University of Oxford): How tragedy and vases weigh on the Delphi omphalos
19.30–20.00 Jan Bremmer (University of Groningen): Politics of the body: Imaginations of the human sacrifice in Iphigenia in Euripides’ Aulis
20.00–20.30 Panel discussion and audience questions
20.30–21.00 Vernissage of the exhibition of the Homini Homo Publishing House HOMINI Liber
Friday, September 27
11.30–13.30 Session II: Greek theater performance Moderator: Jan Bremmer
11.30–12.00 Edith Hall (Kings College London): Dreams, death, fortune telling in Iphigenia in Tauris according to Euripides and Staniewski
12.00-12.30 Krzysztof Bielawski (Jagiellonian University): Mantic Perspectives in Greek Tragedy: Words, People and Performances
12.30–13.00 Panel discussion
17.30–20.00 Session III: Prophetic voices of Polish poets Moderator: Mariusz Zagórski
17.30–18.00 Dariusz Kosiński (Jagiellonian University): The performativity of Polish prophets
18.00–18.30 Krzysztof Rutkowski (University of Warsaw): Mickiewicz and his prophecies
18.30–19.00 Discussion
19.00-19.15 BREAK
Host: Edith Hall
7.15 pm – 8.00 pm Zachary Dunbar (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama London): Sounds and Visions: Chopin’s Nocturne Voice (lecture with live piano music)
21.00 Premiere of the PYTHI ORATORY by Włodzimierz Staniewski with music by Mikołaj Blajda, performed by the Krakow-based Orient Express Orchestra
Saturday, September 28
11.00–13.45 Session IV: Pythian Oratory Moderator: Oliver Taplin
11.00–11.30 Jan Bremmer (University of Groningen): Consulting the Dead in Ancient Greece: Fact or Fiction?
11.30–12.00 Lech Trzcionkowski (Catholic University of Lublin): The prophetic voice of Orpheus
12.00-12.15 BREAK
12.15–12.45 Mariusz Zagórski (University of Warsaw): A mantic comedy – The reception of prophetism in the Roman epic
12.45–13.15 Andrzej Gillmeister (University of Zielona Góra), Sibylline Books – Social drama in action and civic religion in ancient Rome
13.15–13.45 Discussion
14.00 Official opening ceremony of the European Center for Theater Practices Commissioning ceremony of the Center’s buildings raised from the ruins with the participation of official guests
17.30–19.15 Session V: Historical context of the Center for Theater Practices in Gardzienice Moderator: Zachary Dunbar
17.30–18.00 Fiona Macintosh (University of Oxford): Reopening of the archives of performances: Gardzienice, APGRD-Oxford and the history of the theater
6:00 PM – 6:30 PM Yana Zarifi-Sistovari: Wisdom, Prophecy, and Divine Inspiration: The Journey to Delphi
18.30–18.45 Visiting the exhibition Stages of transformation: the history of W. Staniewski’s “Gardzienice” Theater Practices Center, organized in cooperation with the Oxford Archives of Greek and Roman Drama Performances
18.45-19.15 Yana Zarifi-Sistovari, Krzysztof Bielawski, Final remarks
19.15 Official closing of the symposium
21:00 Premiere of the PYTHAN ORATORY by Włodzimierz Staniewski with music by Mikołaj Blajda, performed by the Krakow-based Orient Express Orchestra