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Presented by the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center for Performa 09
Join us for an evening of Polish Futurist theatre, poetry, manifestoes, and art centered upon a 30-minute contemporary performance piece based on excerpts from Bruno Jasieński’s avant-garde play Mannequins’ Ball(1930), conceived and directed by American/British theatre director and choreographer Allison Troup-Jensen and her COUNTERPOINT theatre company in collaboration with Samantha Sleeper and David Destefano, alumni fashion designers from Parsons New School of Design. The evening will also feature additional contributions and interventions by Joanna Warsza, theatre curator and producer at the Laura Palmer Foundation, Warsaw, Marek Bartelik, Professor of Art History, Cooper Union, and installations and an intervention by Polish artist Krzysztof Zarebski, as well as a brief panel discussion moderated by Professor Daniel Gerould, CUNY.
Performa 09 (November 1-22, 2009, New York City) is the third edition of the internationally acclaimed biennial of new visual art performance presented by Performa, a non-profit multidisciplinary arts organization dedicated to exploring the critical role of live performance in the history of twentieth century art and to encouraging new directions in performance for the twenty-first century. www.performa-arts.org.
Allison Troup-Jensen is a theatre director, choreographer and actor, recently relocated from London to NYC. As a director, movement director, and resident director her work includes; The Tristan Bates Theatre, The Crucible Theatre, The Royal Shakespeare Company, Savoy Theatre/West End, The Jermyn Street Theatre, Cambridge Arts, The National Theatre Studio, Dry Write and Theatre 503.
Krzysztof Zarebski, born in 1939 in Warszawa, graduated from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in 1968 with a diploma in painting. The following year he showed his work at Salon Debiutow in Warsaw. He has collaborated with Janusz and Maria Bogucki’s Galeria Wspolczesna, working with Helmut Kajzar in the 1970s (set design, workshops, performances), and has since the 1980s been producing set designs for plays by Samuel Beckett, Tadeusz Rozewicz, Witold Gombrowicz and Heiner Muller. Since 1982 in his New York performances he has collaborated with Krystyna Jachniewicz, Michael Carter, John King, Brendan Coyle and Kasia Zarebska. Selected performances and installations in New York: Franklin Furnace, No Se No, Nada Gallery, ABC NO RIO, Gallery 128, The Living Theatre, Pardo Sheehan Gallery, The Kitchen, Lab Gallery and Chelsea Art Museum. Zarebski has had individual and group exhibiitions in Europe, Japan and USA 2009- “Erothemes of a Waning Eros”, Art NEW media Gallery, Warsaw (A Retrospective) 2009 – “Lust is his Flower”, Galeria Bielska BWA, Bielsko-Biala (A Retrospective) 2009 – “Erothemes of a Waning Eros”, Art NEW media Gallery, Waesaw (A Rerospective) 2009 – Krzysztof Zarebski “Lust is his Flower”. Galeria Bielska BWA, Bielsko-Biala (A Retrospective).
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Polish Futurism: Bruno Jasieński’s Mannequins’ Ball
« Back to EventsPresented by the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center for Performa 09
Join us for an evening of Polish Futurist theatre, poetry, manifestoes, and art centered upon a 30-minute contemporary performance piece based on excerpts from Bruno Jasieński’s avant-garde play Mannequins’ Ball (1930), conceived and directed by American/British theatre director and choreographer Allison Troup-Jensen and her COUNTERPOINT theatre company in collaboration with Samantha Sleeper and David Destefano, alumni fashion designers from Parsons New School of Design. The evening will also feature additional contributions and interventions by Joanna Warsza, theatre curator and producer at the Laura Palmer Foundation, Warsaw, Marek Bartelik, Professor of Art History, Cooper Union, and installations and an intervention by Polish artist Krzysztof Zarebski, as well as a brief panel discussion moderated by Professor Daniel Gerould, CUNY.
Performa 09 (November 1-22, 2009, New York City) is the third edition of the internationally acclaimed biennial of new visual art performance presented by Performa, a non-profit multidisciplinary arts organization dedicated to exploring the critical role of live performance in the history of twentieth century art and to encouraging new directions in performance for the twenty-first century. www.performa-arts.org.
Allison Troup-Jensen is a theatre director, choreographer and actor, recently relocated from London to NYC. As a director, movement director, and resident director her work includes; The Tristan Bates Theatre, The Crucible Theatre, The Royal Shakespeare Company, Savoy Theatre/West End, The Jermyn Street Theatre, Cambridge Arts, The National Theatre Studio, Dry Write and Theatre 503.
Krzysztof Zarebski, born in 1939 in Warszawa, graduated from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in 1968 with a diploma in painting. The following year he showed his work at Salon Debiutow in Warsaw. He has collaborated with Janusz and Maria Bogucki’s Galeria Wspolczesna, working with Helmut Kajzar in the 1970s (set design, workshops, performances), and has since the 1980s been producing set designs for plays by Samuel Beckett, Tadeusz Rozewicz, Witold Gombrowicz and Heiner Muller. Since 1982 in his New York performances he has collaborated with Krystyna Jachniewicz, Michael Carter, John King, Brendan Coyle and Kasia Zarebska. Selected performances and installations in New York: Franklin Furnace, No Se No, Nada Gallery, ABC NO RIO, Gallery 128, The Living Theatre, Pardo Sheehan Gallery, The Kitchen, Lab Gallery and Chelsea Art Museum. Zarebski has had individual and group exhibiitions in Europe, Japan and USA 2009- “Erothemes of a Waning Eros”, Art NEW media Gallery, Warsaw (A Retrospective) 2009 – “Lust is his Flower”, Galeria Bielska BWA, Bielsko-Biala (A Retrospective) 2009 – “Erothemes of a Waning Eros”, Art NEW media Gallery, Waesaw (A Rerospective) 2009 – Krzysztof Zarebski “Lust is his Flower”. Galeria Bielska BWA, Bielsko-Biala (A Retrospective).
6:30 p.m., Mon, Nov. 9, 2009
Elebash Recital Hall. Free!
Portrait of Bruno Jasieński
circa 1920, by
Tytus Czyżewski
Allison Troup-Jensen
Photo courtesy of the artist
Janusz Warminski’s production of
The Mannequins’ Ball at the
Ateneum in Warsaw, 1974