SUNDAY 26.X. 17.00 - LALKA THEATRE
MU
- "TO" Art and Theatre group
Direction: Stefan Lechwar, Izabela Wądołowska
Choreography: Piotr Górski
Scenography: Izabela Wądołowska
Music: Mirosław Matyasik
Movie projections: Jacek Drygała
BU: Magdalena Ochabska
MU: puppet
WO: Sebastian Skworzec
Dancers - Wojeteth Theatre Studio:
Piotr Górski, Monika Kasperczyk, Jarosław Karch, Paweł Zaufal, Edyta Targosz, Anna Morkos / Martyna Sznir
"MU" (THE VOID which excludes from the ordinary course of reality...)
The stylistics and symbolism of the performance refer to the Japanese art and to such notions as "MA" - the space 'between', and "MU" - the "void" which excludes from the ordinary course of reality, an absolute silence. The actress onstage has her mirror image, her antithesis - the Puppet. They fight between themselves for cognition...
The performance constitutes itself upon the simplicity of shapes, the restricted colours, the lack of words. The simple symbolism is used in a multi-layered way. The actors/dancers are directly connected to the surrounding forms. While dancing, they are the vehicles of the main protagonist's thoughts and feelings. MU is a Land of Void that everyone carries inside them. Due to it we discover life anew. The eponymous "MU" is a border between the real and the unreal, between good and evil, dream and reality, day and night, the feminine and the masculine. The tradition of the East perceives it as an ultimate goal that has to be reached in order to gain a perfect condition of the spirit. The protagonist of the show is "BU", a woman performing together with the Dancers - guardians of the forms and terms. They initiate a fight which foreshadows an appearance of "MU" - the Void, a Puppet. The lack of words is to guarantee a pass into the place where forms, shapes, interpretations and limits cease to exist. There is only the limitless "MU" - the Void creating a perfect context for anything. It is the negation that enables us to discover life and all of it attributes anew. In this consumer age, when the accumulation of things, words and definitions makes us feel alive, "MU" seems to offer specific revaluation of values. It turns out that TO HAVE is not so difficult as NOT TO HAVE, that is, simply, TO BE.
Without a single word, the actress and the puppet - accompanied by the piercing sounds of music - attempt to express themselves "straightforwardly", by means of gesture, movement and dance. Their actions remind of haiku, which, as Roland Barthes claimed, is an area of revelation that do not explain anything, but indicate - "It"!