Co-financed by the Greater Poland Voivodeship Government
A theatre performance produced in cooperation with dancers of the Polish Dance Theatre, inaugurating the Organic Work Trail, a cultural initiative promoting people, places and values related to organic work in Greater Poland.
Curator's description
We all associate organic work in Greater Poland not only with building a civil society, foundational education, equalizing opportunities and supporting the fight for workers' rights, but also with caring for the development of culture and the immediate environment. It was the groundwork and paving the bloodless path to freedom that became the foundation of the victorious Greater Poland Uprising and regaining independence. However, are the ideas proclaimed by Emilia Sczaniecka, Karol Marcinkowski and Julia Woykowska still valid today?
Professor Anna Wolff-Powęska, an outstanding historian of ideas, writes in the text entitled Dekalog pracy organicznej XXI wieku (“The Decalogue of Organic Work of the 21st Century”): "Fragmented societies without orientation need a new civic activity more than ever in recent decades. Following Barbara Skarga, I believe that citizenship has not only political meaning, but above all moral meaning. It teaches being together, not in a crowd that will soon disperse, but in a community connected by common action and obligations. Only a citizen aware of his duties gives meaning to the community, frees him from loneliness, the feeling of emptiness and teaches solidarity in action.”
In the face of many contemporary challenges and threats, such as a war at our borders, the climate crisis, growing inequalities and an aging society, the values espoused over a hundred years ago by forerunners of foundational work are becoming extremely relevant and needed today. In a world where young generations are building - as Zygmunt Bauman wrote - their houses of sand, it is solidarity, equality and freedom that should constitute the lasting foundations of the future.
In 2023, the idea of creating a Greater Poland Organic Work Trail will materialize, which will bring the heritage of this unique, socially constructed road to freedom closer to both local communities and guests from other parts of Poland or the world. On the occasion of its opening, artists associated with the Polish Dance Theatre created a unique performance called "Amnis organica", in which they use the language of body and dance to tell what organic work is from their perspective. They talk about the need for unity – a community body composed of individual individuals looking for solidarity, support and security. Because in times of social tensions and "world breakdown", what is organic is community - between people, other beings and the planet.
The performance was financed by the Greater Poland Voivodeship Government.
SHOW DATES
June 25, 2024, at 1 p.m.
LOCATION
Palace Museum in Rogalin
TICKETS
Free
ORGANIZER
General Dąbrowski's Palace in Winna Góra
PARTNER(S)
Polish Dance Theatre
CHOREOGRAPHY AND PERFORMANCE
Evelyn Blue
Momoko Den
Jerzy Kaźmierczak
Katarzyna Kulmińska
Daniel Michna
JinWoo NamKung
Zofia Tomczyk
Emily Wong-Adryańczyk
MUSIC
Zofia Tomczyk
MASTEING
Filip Martyniec
SOUND ENGINEERING
Agata Kneć
COSTUMES
Katarzyna Kulmińska
VISUAL IDENTIFICATION
Extra Studio