Aurora Lubos – one of Poland’s most distinguished performers and activists, working in socially engaged theatre – has been associated with the Tri-City dance scene since 1997, collaborating with the Gdańsk Dance Theatre, the Baltic Sea Cultural Centre in Gdańsk, the Baltic University of Dance, the Dada von Bzdülöw Theatre, the Winda Club at the Gdańsk Archipelago of Culture, the Żak Club in Gdańsk, and the Specialized Support Centre for Victims of Domestic Violence in Rusocin. Since 2000, she has been an actress with the English Vincent Dance Theatre.
Since 2019, she has co-founded and is a member of the Arbuz Association, which works on behalf of refugees and people with limited access to education and art. Since 2021, she has been a volunteer with the Homo Faber Association and the Granica Group, actively participating in humanitarian aid on the Polish-Belarusian border. As a result of her encounters with refugees, the artist created two works: “Postcards from the Border” and “Border,” devoted to the humanitarian crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border.
Her most important works include “Acts” – a performance based on the stories of people experiencing domestic violence; “Witajcie/Welcome” – a performance in response to the 2015 migration crisis; “From the Water” – a performance created on the beach in Sopot on Refugee Solidarity Day, stemming from the artist’s protest against the silent deaths of migrants dying at sea; and “Lament” – a shocking response to the Palestinian genocide in Gaza. “Chaos” is the artist’s latest work.
Contemporarily, the word “chaos” has taken on many meanings. In everyday language, it can be synonymous with disorder, disorientation, and a sense of being lost. In social sciences and psychology, chaos often describes states of crisis: moments in which the existing order ceases to function and new rules have not yet emerged. This experience is particularly familiar to societies affected by conflict, violence, and trauma, when chaos is a collection of images, sounds, and gestures that “can no longer be unseen” – can no longer be forgotten.
Chaos can also be a tool of expression. It allows us to express what cannot be organized with words: shock, pain, feelings of disintegration. It transports the audience to a state in which the lines between victim and perpetrator, between spectator and participant, blur.
Aurora Lubos
Created and performed by: Aurora Lubos
Music by: Shigeru Umebayashi
Premiere: March 2026
Duration: 45 minutes
Tickets for the performance HERE.
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