26 April {Sunday}
9:00am — 11:00am
Sala Teatru ZAR, Studio Na Grobli, ul. Na Grobli 30/32
Aikido
Training led by Przemysław Błaszczak of Two Paths Studio
Contact and application: please send your completed application form to Justyna Rodzińska-Nair at justyna@grotowski-institute.art.pl by 12 April 2015. The number of places is limited. Applicants will be accepted on a first-come-first-serve basis.
Training is a one-day workshop.
In Polish and English
Admission free
This training session will include exercises adapted from the martial art of aikido, developed by the Two Paths Studio. Participants will be able to improve their coordination, attentiveness and concentration skills and develop an understanding of the body’s mechanics through work with joint locks. The focus will be on breathing in harmony with the body, primal expression and presence. The session will include individual, partner and group work.
Please bring comfortable clothes: loose-fitting bottoms and a long-sleeved T-shirt.
Przemysław Błaszczak is an actor. From 1996 to 1999 he worked with Song of the Goat Theatre, where he performed in Song of the Goat – Dithyramb. Between 2002 and 2003 he created the solo performance Ecco Homo. Since 2004, he has been an actor with Teatr ZAR, led by Jarosław Fret, the resident theatre company of the Grotowski Institute. Przemek performs in the Gospels of Childhood: Overture and Anhelli: The Calling.
Two Paths Studio seeks to develop a training which focuses on the idea of confrontation and opening to new concepts of movement and body work based on the martial arts experience of Studio leaders, Przemysław Błaszczak (aikido) and Jakub Gontarski (capoeira). “Two Paths” are not only two different Japanese and Brazilian movement traditions, but also two different paths: the path of the warrior and the path of the performer. The work of the Studio focuses on how people relate to space (both the workspace and the space of contact with a partner and the group).
