Two Paths Studio

Training session with Przemysław Błaszczak

Sat–Sun 2–3 April 2016, 17:00–19:00
Na Grobli Studio, Studio Space
One-day training sessions

The workshop will be conducted in English

Contact and application

Please email your completed application form by 28 March 2016 to Justyna Rodzińska-Nair at justyna@grotowski-institute.art.pl. Please include in the subject of the email ‘BodyConstitution workshops’ followed by the name of the chosen workshop. The number of places is limited. Applicants will be accepted on a first-come-first-serve basis.

Admission free, advance booking required

Two Paths Studio

In the Two Paths Studio we seek to explore movement traditions associated with different martial arts. We’ve always had an intuition that the beautiful and live dimensions of martial arts may offer something fresh, new and nourishing for actors, dancers and performers. Many traditions – two paths. The path of aikido has grown out of our research into this tradition. I want to share our work in progress.
Przemysław Błaszczak

Przemysław Błaszczak

is an actor with a degree in philosophy who has been associated with the Grotowski Institute since 1995. From 1996 to 1999, he worked with the Song of the Goat Theatre, where he performed in Song of the Goat – Dithyramb.

Two Paths Studio

Two Paths Studio seeks to develop a training which centres around the ideas of confrontation and in-depth understanding of the function of training in studio work, drawing on the martial arts experience of the Studio leaders, Przemysław Błaszczak (aikido) and Jakub Gontarski (capoeira). The first stage of Studio’s work focused on ‘two paths’ – two different movement traditions, Japanese and Brazilian, attempting to find a common territory that a performer, or ‘practitioner’, can draw from.