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DD DANSEN 2009 Music Video

Grotowski at Work

This video has recently been uploaded on YouTube by Biagagli. It is a Polska TV program seemingly made after Grotowski's death 1999. It is a rough outline of his life.

What is most interesting for me in this video, is the part where Grotowski is leading the vocal exercises at the Theatre Laboratory of 13 Rows; the way he conducts the performer with his hands, indicating various places on body where he wants the performance to use as resonator.

I guess this fragment is from the Mike Elster's documentary, Letters from Opole. (If my memory doesn't decive me; I've seen that film seven years ago.) Elster was a film student in Poland in the 60's and decided to make a documentary about Theatre Laboratory after he was invited to Opole by Eugenio Barba and saw the work of Grotowski. He became instrumental in Grotowski's career not only by making the very first film about his work but also through introducing Grotowski to Peter Brook in 1965. (see E. Barba, Land of Ashes and Diamonds, p. 60.)

I hope someone uploads Letters from Opole on YouTube as well.

Deep-rest (a music video)

“I ache in all the places where others get pleasure.” – Antonin Artaud