Nucirzeczka

Immersed in the sounds of com­posers such as Graży­na Bacewicz, Philip Glass, and Hen­ry Manci­ni, we will search for our own breath, dive into the cor­ners of our imag­i­na­tion, and, car­ried by the waves of music, allow our bod­ies — both small and large — to drift gen­tly. The human body is approx­i­mate­ly 70% water, and a new­born’s body is as much as 80%. We will lis­ten to these rivers with­in our bod­ies, let them rush and bab­ble and flow here and there… Who knows, per­haps along the way we will encounter oth­er rivers and streams, and togeth­er try to flow in a sin­gle current?

“Nucirzecz­ka” is a per­for­ma­tive action com­bin­ing live music with move­ment. Togeth­er with the artists, par­tic­i­pants will stim­u­late their sens­es, bod­ies, and imag­i­na­tion. We invite you to come in clothes that allow free move­ment. Splash!

Before and after the con­certs, par­ents and guardians are invit­ed to enjoy refresh­ments at our café with their chil­dren. The café is open from 9:00 to 14:00.

Per­form­ers:

Mar­ta Piórkows­ka vio­linKrzysztof Kozłows­ki pianoAlek­san­dra Bożek-Muszyńs­ka chore­og­ra­phy and per­for­manceAn­na Sza­w­iel performance

Alek­san­dra Bożek-Muszyńs­ka | www​.olabo​mu​.com | www​.holo​biont​.pl

Impro­vis­er, chore­o­g­ra­ph­er, per­former. She is the cre­ator of over a dozen orig­i­nal chore­o­gra­phies, and her work has been pre­sent­ed in, among oth­er places, Berlin, Budapest, Philadel­phia, New York, War­saw, and Vien­na. In 2017 she found­ed the Holo­biont col­lec­tive togeth­er with Han­na Byl­ka-Kanec­ka, with the aim of cre­at­ing inter­dis­ci­pli­nary multi­gen­er­a­tional projects. One of her recent chore­o­gra­phies, “Goździk w pustej mus­zli,” was recog­nised in the Best Dance Pro­duc­tion of the 2021/22 sea­son cat­e­go­ry by the month­ly jour­nal Teatr. In 2022 she cre­at­ed the chore­og­ra­phy for the pro­duc­tion “Rodz­i­na,” a co-pro­duc­tion of TR and Teatr 21. In her work she explores the bound­aries between sim­plic­i­ty and naivety, pre­sen­ta­tion and facil­i­ta­tion, and find­ing pat­terns and break­ing them. The visu­al aspect and a dis­tinc­tive sense of humour are char­ac­ter­is­tic of her work. Her body responds very well when it can do what it likes.

About the series:

ĄsąBąble are per­for­ma­tive con­certs with new music for fam­i­lies with chil­dren aged 0–7. Each one is built around an orig­i­nal script in which lis­ten­ing to music, inter­ac­tive play, and edu­ca­tion­al val­ue are of equal impor­tance. In a space friend­ly to the very youngest, audi­ences can hear music by lead­ing con­tem­po­rary com­posers, in a ver­sion and pro­por­tion adapt­ed for small ears. The the­atri­cal for­mat of the con­certs encour­ages con­cen­tra­tion and allows lis­ten­ers to be enchant­ed by the sounds, while the invi­ta­tion to join in group impro­vi­sa­tions releas­es chil­dren’s nat­ur­al need for expres­sion. In the spir­it of Janusz Kor­cza­k’s words “There are no chil­dren, only peo­ple,” all par­tic­i­pants are treat­ed with respect and have a share in how the event unfolds. The series presents only 20th- and 21st-cen­tu­ry music. A per­ma­nent fea­ture is the pre­sen­ta­tion of a record­ing of a sym­phon­ic work or a work from the field of sound design and electronics.

Although each edi­tion of ĄsąBąble takes musi­cal tex­ture as its start­ing point, it is also rich in non-musi­cal con­texts close to Hash­tag Ensem­ble’s prac­tice: lit­er­ary, visu­al, and social. The events are inter­dis­ci­pli­nary: invit­ed artists who have long worked in prox­im­i­ty to chil­dren’s imag­i­na­tion also con­tribute — dancers, per­form­ers, illus­tra­tors, and writ­ers. The­atre is the nat­ur­al are­na for new music, which is why the ĄsąBąble series also incor­po­rates act­ing train­ing for musi­cians as part of its edu­ca­tion­al character.

The cura­tor and host of the series is Anna Sza­w­iel — an actress and nar­ra­tor who spe­cialis­es in inter­dis­ci­pli­nary cul­tur­al and edu­ca­tion­al events. She likes work­ing at the bor­ders: between con­cert and per­for­mance, edu­ca­tion and play, phys­i­cal­i­ty and abstrac­tion, always in con­nec­tion with chil­dren’s imag­i­na­tion. The con­cert pro­grammes are co-cre­at­ed by the musi­cians of Hash­tag Ensemble.

The ĄsąBąble project cre­ative­ly devel­ops the con­cept of the “Smykow­iz­je” series by the “Muzy­ka jest dla wszys­t­kich” foun­da­tion, in the con­text of which in 2016–2022 Hash­tag Ensem­ble and Anna Sza­w­iel per­formed togeth­er more than 130 con­certs and mini-per­for­mances, explor­ing the most inter­est­ing ways of pre­sent­ing new music. The cre­ator and cura­tor of Smykow­iz­je was Anna Kierkosz. It was the first series of events in Poland addressed to the very youngest, in which con­tem­po­rary music played the lead­ing role.

Tickets

30 PLN