SHAKESPEARIA | @Krakow Dance Theatre (PL) | FLOW5

Ophelia’s complex, Lady Macbeth’s effect, Juliet’s tragedy. Shakespearean female characters are often attributed with madness and instability. The popularity of female madness extends far beyond Shakespeare’s work and becomes an experience eagerly analysed by subsequent authors. Through this performance, we try to imagine the context of the experience of the ‘mad’ female characters. Madness becomes a fascinating image, in which we also often seek emancipatory strategies. These protagonists often act alone. What if we made some displacements and, through that movement, they could meet in one space?

Shakespearia is a dance collage of alternative ideas about the female protagonists in Shakespeare’s tragedies and their coexistence. Dancers from Krakow Dance Theatre create movement-based interpretations of the disorganised thoughts of Ophelia, Lady Macbeth and Juliet, exploring unknown areas of the literary characters and ourselves.

In addition to the architecture of places, we are interested in body architecture. Can psychological disintegration be presented in the form of decomposition of body fragments? Would Juliet’s hand have saved Lady Macbeth from madness? Can defragmentation of the bodies of these three protagonists take place on stage as an emancipatory project?

Concept and set design: Eryk Makohon
Choreography: Eryk Makohon, Agnieszka Bednarz-Tyran, Yelyzaveta Tereshonok
Dramaturgy: Daria Kubisiak
Music: Piotr Peszat
Video: Grzesiek Mart
Performance: Agnieszka Bednarz-Tyran, Yelyzaveta Tereshonok
Lighting: Michał Wawrzyniak
Set cooperation: Piotr Karp
Graphic identification: Weronika Wawryk
Coordination and production: Paweł Łyskawa, Izabela Zawadzka

*The performance was created within the framework of the project „Dance in Krakow”, financed from the funds of the City of Krakow, program: „Independent Krakow contemporary dance scene”.