Dziady Recycling Festival
We have posted the programme of Dziady Recycling Festival (See our Calendar), an event dedicated to commemorative rituals, which will be held from 27 October to 4 November 2016 in Wrocław. The festival will see 9 days of ceremonies, discussions and exhibitions, a concert, a programme of films, as well as performances of current productions of Adam Mickiewicz’s Forefathers’ Eve (Dziady) and remixes of the play’s past revivals – from Grotowski’s reworking to Dejmek’s historic production (1967) to Grzegorzewski’s Forefathers’ Eve: Twelve Improvisations.
This is how the festival’s Research Director, Leszek Kolankiewicz, describes the event:
‘In an era of environmentalism, recycling is the modern name for both eternal return and ricorso, the recurrent patterns of social history. Commemorative rituals are a recycling of sorts, too, as they enable us to re-live something that has entered the collective memory. The festival will focus on recycling in the form of remixing the past productions of Forefathers’ Eve which constitute a living performative archive of Polish culture. It will be one big recycling of the cultural project of Forefathers’ Eve, carried out in an era of reactionary craving for myth, on the one hand, and of distrust of any kind of mythologising, on the other. It will be a test to see if Forefathers’ Eve can still be regarded as metasocial commentary, and if so, to determine what it says today.’
For information about multi-entry passes, go to the Tickets or Press Room section.
