Each month there were held several Theatrical Marathons “Cosmos of Gardzienice” and a session of Academy for Theatre Practices “Gardzienice”.
24th of January – 2nd of February, Israel (Tel Aviv) – artistic residence of Włodzimierz Staniewski and actors of “Gardzienice” Theatre (M. Gołaj, M. Mrowca, J. Holcgreber) in Israel as part of the Polish Year. Masterclass for Theatre Department of University of Tel Aviv, open theatre movie showing and presentation of methods of work of Staniewski with participation of “Gardzienice” Theatre actors and participators of the workshop sessions. Scientific session “Stage languages of Polish contemporary theatre” with participation of theatre creators, representatives of Theatre Studies and scientists from Poland and Israel.
2nd – 18th of February, Egypt (Alexandria) – residence of “Gardzienice” Theatre in Alexandria as a part of the festival “Creative Forum for Independent Theatre Groups (Europe-Mediterranean)” by the invitation of Alexandrian Library. Presentation of the performance IPHIGENIA AT A… with participation of Chamber Orchestra of Bibliotheca Alexandrina conducted by Mikołaj Blajda.
Lectures of Włodzimierz Staniewski and masterclass of actors of “Gardzienice” Theatre in the Swedish Institute as a part of the conference “A Dialogue on Theatre, Theatre in Today’s World: Is it a life necessity?” with participation of creators and scientists from Austria, Belgium, Bulgari, Croatia, Czech, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Jordan, Laban, Malta, Holland, Palestine, Poland, Romania, Scotland, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland and Syria.
Reconnaissance by Włodzimierz Staniewski and Jacek Petrycki and trial pictures for planned filming of the performance ELECTRA.
12th of February – 12th of March – Exhibition of paintings by Marek Sobczyk “Psycho- / somo- / socio- analysis” in the “Gardzienice” Gallery.
15th – 19th of March, Norway – Reconnaissance by Mariusz Gołaj and Wojciech Goleman before the residence of “Gardzienice” Theatre in Norway as a part of the project “Gardens and gardens of theatre. Polish-Norwegian residential exchange of theatres”.
26th of March – 9th of April – Exhibition of the paintings and photographs by Andrzej Bieńkowski „Discovered Music. Musicians” in the “Gardzienice” Gallery. The opening was honoured by the author, who presented his new publications: Four sides of Rawa, Kajocy. Around Kędzierscy and The end of Double Basses. Kraśnica. Opoczyński region as well as a documental movie Jewish music in memory of folk musicians. The meeting was accompanied by a concert of the band of Janina Bździuch from Łukowa close to Biłgoraj (as a part of the cyclic event “World Music”.
29th of April – 5th of May, Georgia – Reconnaissance by Włodzimierz Staniewski in regard to the new production, based on the text of Iphigenia in Tauris by Euripides, that includes Georgian motifs (dance, singing, choreography). The result of the visit was a residence in Gardzienice of a group of artists from Georgia (of the group Abjari-Georgia), who took part in the rehearsals and preparations of the new performance, led workshop and did a public presentation.
14th – 16th of May, Jelenia Góra – Festival of Theatre Music in Jelenia Góra organized by Cinema Theatre (run by Katarzyna and Zbigniew Szumski) and Lower-Silesian Philharmonics. As a part of the festival a concert of “Gardzienice” Theatre took place.
27th of May, Warsaw – première presentation of the movie IPHIGENIA AT A… directed by Włodzimierz Staniewski with pictures of Wojciech Staroń (produced by Polish Audio-visual Publisher) in the Theatre Institute named after Z. Raszewski.
28th of May – 15th of July – Exhibition “Nikifor – Kashinath Chauhan – two faces of primitivism in art” in the “Gardzienice” Gallery. At the exhibition there were presented never shown before in Lublin works by Nikifor Krynicki, from the Ethnography Museum named after Seweryn Udziela in Cracow. Simultaneously there were presented drawings of Kashinatha Chauhan, the shoeshine boy from Pune in India, whose works were discovered by directors Krzysztof and Joanna Krauze while travelling in India. During the opening ceremony the meeting with Krzysztof Krauze was held, for which he told the story of making of the movie My Nikifor. Then, in the church of Dominicans in Lublin, the public showing of the movie was held.
29th of May – 1st of June – Visit of the representatives of Norwegian Stella Polaris Theatre – Kari Berge and Anette Andersen – as a part of the project “Garden and gardens of theatre: Polish-Norwegian residential exchange of theatres”. Preparation of Norwegian residence in Lublin and Gardzienice and making of the documental-promotional movie.
3rd – 11th of July, Greece (Delphi) – lecture of Włodzimierz Staniewski about the work on the new production based on the Iphigenia in Tauris at the International Meetings of Ancient Drama in Delphi. The lecture is accompanied by the movie projection of the film IPHIGENIA AT A… The introduction is given by Professor Christodoulos Yiallourides.
29th of July – 28th of August – Exhibition of the paintings by Katarzyna Gawłowa from Zielonka in “Gardzienice” Gallery. Works came from the Ethnography Museum named after S. Udziela in Cracow.
1st of September – 1st of October – Exhibition by Zdzisław Beksiński titled “Drawings” accompanied by showing of the film An homage to Beksińki. At the opening of exhibition Czesław Tarczyński, director of the Town Art Gallery in Częstochowa, told about the art of Zdzisław Beksiński. Music setting of the opening ceremony was made by musicians Błażej Gębura (saxophone) and Adrian Czyżewski (violin).
1st – 28th of September – Residence of “Gardzienice” Theatre in Norway:
Official opening at Midgar Historicl Centre in Borre-Horten. Concert of musical pieces from the repertoire of “Gardzienice” Theatre.
Concert of the songs of “Gardzienice” Theatre and Theatrical Gathering in Fossnes Senter in Stokke.
Three three-days’ workshop sessions for the students of Higher Pedagogical School in Stokke.
Three presentations of the performance IPHIGENIA AT A… in Kulturkirken Jakob in Oslo.
1st – 25th of October – Nerwegian Residence in Lublin and Gardzienice:
Official opening of the project accompanied by the performance of Stella Polaris (scenes from the performance Trutor&Capitano). Simultaneously in the “Gardzienice” Gallery there is an opening of the multimedia exhibition including presentation of costumes, stage props from the performances of Stella Polaris and films from the archives of the Norwegian group.
Workshop session for Polish enthusiasts of theatre, work on the performances Shaman’s Dream and Ship of Fools.
Interactive performance Tourney by the artists of Stella Polaris.
Conference “Gardens” in Gardzienice with participation of W. Staniewski, P. Borg and four architects and landscape architects (from Poland: J. Uścinowicz, M. Ambrosiewicz and from Norway: R. Stange, K. Jorgensen).
5th – 6th of November, Cracow – participation of “Gardzienice” Theatre in the International Literature Festival named after J. Conrad in Cracow. Two presentations of “Cosmos of Gardzienice”.
12th of November – 22nd of November, Warsaw – Residence of “Gardzienice” Theatre in Warsaw co-funded by the assets of State City of Warsaw. Partner of the project was Higher School of Social Psychology in Warsaw. In programme were:
Press conference with participation of Włodzimierz Staniewski, Marek Kraszewski (director of the Office of Culture of the State City of Warsaw), Professor Andrzej Eliasz (rector of the Higher School of Social Psychology) and a dozen or so journalists. Presentation of the book The Promised Theatre – 30 years of “Gardzienice” with participation of the authors (Professor Zbigniew Taranienko, Professor Wojciech Dudzik).
Concert of the music for the performance IPHIGENIA AT A… and other theatrical and film music by Zygmunt Konieczny performed by actors of “Gardzienice” Theatre, Fresco Sonare orchestra conducted by Mikołaj Blajda, with guest participation of Krzysztof Globisz and soloists: Joanna Słowińska, Tadeusz Zięba, Leszek Hefi-Wiśniowiecki.
Workshop session run by actors of “Gardzienice” Theatre.
27th of November – Première exhibition of the photographs of Mikołaj Grynberg titled “Lots of Women”. Musical setting was provided by Błażej Gebura (alto saxophone). Photographs come from 9 cities: Warsaw, Rio de Janeiro, Kiev, Mexico, Lima, Buenos Aires, Tel Aviv, Zanzibar and Beijing.
1st – 4th of December, Great Britain (London) – residence in Rose Bruford College, including: workshop session run by the actors of “Gardzienice” Theatre and open lecture by Włodzimierz Staniewski dedicated to the philosophy of work of “Gardzienice” Theatre (with main concern of the realisation of ancient drama) illustrated by the archival projections and live presentations.