U.S. Artists Initiative
Schedule
Updated June 12, 2009
Very Subject To Change

Note: Please note that performances listed here are the “core participant” track. Leaders and guest participants will see the same shows, but in many cases on different dates, due to limited seating.

This schedule includes many, but not all, of the general public festival activities. The optional activities mentioned here are highly recommended to our program participants as complements to the discussions we will be having.

The full general festival programme can be found at http://rokgrotowskiego.pl/

Sunday, June 14
Arrivals
16:30 – 19:00 See The Danton Case, dir. Jan Klata (Teatr Polski)
19:30 US Artists Initiative Welcome/Cocktail

Monday, June 15
10:30 – US Artists Initiative Session #1: Orientation
16:45 – Overnight visit with Teatr Cinema in Michałowice.

Tuesday, June 16
Day trip to Legnica for site-specific performance marathon by Modjeska Theatre

Wednesday, June 17
11:00 – 13:00 US Artists Initiative Session #2: Participant Introductions
14:00 (Optional) Exhibition at Wrocław Academy of Fine Arts (ul. Plac Polski 3/4)
16:00 – 17:00 (Optional) Film screening: Odin Teatret, Ascent to the Sea
21:00 – 22:30 See UR-HAMLET , dir. Eugenio Barba

Thursday, June 18
11:00 – 13:00 US Artists Initiative Session #3: Laboratory Ensembles, led by American Russian Theatre Ensemble Laboratory/ARTEL and Double Edge Theatre; introduction by Philip Arnoult
20:00 – 10:40 See CLEANSED, dir. Krysztof Warlikowski

Friday, June 19
11:00 – 12:00 US Artists Initiative Session #4a: Presentation about Teatr Wspołczesny by Joanna Biernacka, introduction by Philip Arnoult/CITD
12:00 – 14:00 US Artists Initiative Session #4b: Conversation with Lee Breuer, Co-founder, Mabou Mines, moderated by Stephen Nunns
19:00 – 20:15 See DANCING WITH FATHER, Plavo Pozorište

Saturday, June 20
11:00 – 13:00 US Artists Initiative Session #5: Coffee Talk / Responding to Week 1
14:00 – 17:00 (Optional) Film Screening: KRUM, dir. Krysztof Warlikowski
16:00 Mandatory Nap before All-Night Marathon
The Night of Theatres in Wrocław

Sunday, June 21
11:00 – 13:00 US Artists Initiative Session #6: New Voices, New Moves in the Russian Theatre, led by Philip Arnoult/CITD; feat. Yury Urnov, Olya Petrakova, Steven Leigh Morris
17:00 – 18:00 Film Screening: MEDEA MATERIAL, dir. Anatoly Vassiliev
19:00 – (Optional) Poetry reading by Cecilia Woloch
21:00 – 10:20 See BALI JEWELS, Gambuh Desa Ensemble, Bali

Monday, June 22
11:00 – 11:45 US Artists Initiative Session #7A: Participant Introductions, Round 2
12:00 – 14:00 US Artists Initiative Session #7B: Conversation with Grzegorz Bral, Song of the Goat Theatre; introduction by Joanna Klass
16:00 – 17:00 (Optional) Film screening, Terzopoulos’ The Journey with Dionysus
17:00 – Public Conversation with Theodoros Terzopoulos
20:00 – 21:10 See AJAX, THE MADNESS, dir. Theodoros Terzopoulos

Tuesday, June 23
11:00 – 12:45 US Artists Initiative Session #8A: New Polish Drama, feat. Małgorzata Sikorska, Małgorzata Semil; introduction by Joanna Klass. With short readings of new work by Małgorzata Sikorska
13:00 – 15:00 US Artists Initiative Session #8B: New Play Development in the U.S., led by Jon Lawrence Rivera/Playwrights’ Arena
16:00 – 17:45 (Optional) Radio Play: Therese the Philosopher (Acts II & IV), dir. Anatoly Vassiliev
18:00 Public Conversation with Anatoli Vassiliev
20:00 – 21:30 See ON SUNDAY MORNING, Majsternia Pisni

Wednesday, June 24
10:00 – 11:00 US Artists Initiative Session #9A: Community-Collaborative Theatre, led by Tali Pressman/Cornerstone Theater Company
11:30 – 13:00 US Artists Initiative Session #9B: From Los Angeles to New York: Within and Beyond the Frame, led by Mark Valdez & Nick Slie/Network of Ensemble Theatres, feat. Barbara Lanciers/Trust for Mutual Understanding
16:00 – 17:00 (Optional) Film Screening: Bacci’s Limits of Experience: Trilogy of the Compgnia Laboratorio di Pontedera
17:00 Public Conversation with Roberto Bacci
20:00 – 21:20 See HAMLET, FROM THE FLESH COMES SILENCE, dir. Roberto Bacci

Thursday, June 25
10:00 – 11:45 US Artists Initiative Session #10: Training & Education, feat. Kathleen Cioffi, Robert Cohen, Stephen Nunns, Rob Orchard, Eli Simon; moderated by Martha Coigney
12:00 -14:00 US Artists Initiative Session #11: Les Enfants Terribles of Polish Repertory Theatre
16:00 – (Optional) “Grotowski for School Children – a gathering for admirers, enemies, and those who don’t know anything about Jerzy Grotowski’s work.” A lecture by Dariusz Kosinski, author of the book Grotowski. Przewodnik.
17:30 – (Optional) Exhibition Opening: Grotowski – Haiti: Culture of Voodoo. Work-in-progress.
19:00 – 21:10 See GOSPELS OF CHILDHOOD. DIPTYCH, Teatr ZAR

Friday, June 26
10:00 – 11:15 US Artists Initiative Session #12A: Conversation with Ron Sossi & Beth Hogan/Odyssey Theatre Ensemble; introduction by Joanna Klass
11:30 – 12:00 US Artists Initiative Session #12B: Post-Grotowski Theatre in Europe: Response to the Eastern Line, led by Philip Arnoult
12:00 – 13:00 US Artists Initiative Session #12C: Post-Grotowski Theatre in the United States, led by Kathleen Cioffi; feat. Richard Schechner, Ron Sossi, Beth Hogan
16:00 – 17:00 (Optional) Film screening: Peter Brook, Brook by Brook
17:00 Public conversation with Peter Brook
20:00 – 21:00 See FRAGMENTS, dir. Peter Brook

Saturday, June 27
11:00 – 13:00 US Artists Initiative Session #13: Presenting International Theatre in the United States, feat. Mark Murphy, David Sefton, Meiyin Wang; also Barbara Lanciers/Trust for Mutual Understanding; moderated by Joanna Klass
16:00 – 17:00 (Optional) Film screening: UNSIGNED PACT WITH THE DEVIL… OR WANDERS WITH LUDWIK FLASZEN
17:00 Public conversation with Ludwik Flaszen
18:00 – 19:00 See ELECTRA, dir. Tadashi Suzuki
21:00 (Optional) Open-air rooftop performances by Teatro Accion (Argentina), Poor Dog Group (Los Angeles), and PWST (Wroclaw)

Sunday, June 28
10:30 – 12:30 US Artists Initiative Session #14: Writing about Experimental Work: Theory, Journalism, Criticism, feat. Kathleen Cioffi, Stephen Nunns, Steven Leigh Morris, Jim O’Quinn, Tom Sellar; moderated by John Freedman
13:00 – 14:30 (Optional) Film screening: Tadashi Suzuki, First International Theatre Festival in Toyoma. Toga Festival ’82.
14:30 – Public conversation with Tadashi Suzuki
16:30 – 17:20 (Optional) Film screening, Pina Bausch
19:30 – 22:20 See NEFES, dir. Pina Bausch
22:30 – All-Festival Dinner and Party

Monday, June 29
10:00 – 11:00 Presentation by Michal Merczynski, Director of the MALTA Festival and Director of the National Audiovisual Institute/NINA
11:15 – 13:45 Private performance of Schechner’s HAMLET, THAT IS THE QUESTION
14:00 – 15:00 US Artists Initiative Session #15: Post-performance Q&A with Richard Schechner and the company of HAMLET
16:00 (Optional) Film screening: Lupa’s Immanuel Kant
19:00 – 20:40 See THE TEMPTATION OF QUIET VERONICA, dir. Krystian Lupa
22:30 Public conversation with Pina Bausch

Tuesday, June 30
11:00 – 13:00 U.S. Artists Initiative Closing Session
16:00 – 17:00 (Optional) Film screenings: Richard Schechner, D69, Tooth of Crime, & Yokastas Redux
17:00 – Public conversation with Richard Schechner
19:00 – (Optional) Wroclaw theatre performance TBD
20:45 – Public conversation with Krystian Lupa (WFF)
22:00 – Closing Party

Wednesday, July 1
DEPARTURES

Thursday, July 2
DEPARTURES

*Throughout the festival, our Polish-speaking Artist Liaisons will be available to accompany individuals and small groups around Wroclaw for sight-seeing tours and expeditions (Cathedral Island, Botannical Gardens, Centennial Hall, modernist architecture tour, famous bridges and rivers, flea markets, night clubs, etc).