Sylwia Hanff is a pioneer and most recognizable Polish butoh performer, director, choreographer, cultural manager, and curator of artistic projects and artistic and cultural education. She has been on stage for 30 years and has appeared in nearly 50 performances for institutional and independent theatres. Since 2002, she has run the Limen Butoh theatre, where she has created 30 original solo and ensemble performances, as well as numerous short films and improvisations. She performs in Poland and internationally (USA, Japan, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Austria, Bulgaria, Norway, Germany, Latvia). She was an actress with the Warsaw Pantomime Theatre/Jewish Theatre in Warsaw and collaborated for 10 years with the National Theatre and the National Opera. For over 20 years, she has been collaborating internationally, organizing artistic events, and inviting international artists to participate in her projects. She founded Butohpolis, the International Butoh Art Festival, of which she is the Artistic Director. For 24 years, he has been leading bodywork and movement workshops, including long-term educational projects. He has collaborated with independent cultural centers and institutions in Warsaw for many years.
Alexandre Yterce is a total artist – musician, painter, photographer, poet, actor, and filmmaker. He is an independent composer for whom music is not a sphere isolated from reality, but one of the fundamental means of renewing consciousness. He composes regularly at the Accès Digital studio in Rouen. He gives concerts on the acousmonium, performing his own compositions as well as works from the global repertoire of musique concrète/acousmatic and electronic sound poetry. He organizes LICENCES in Paris – festivals of art, electronic and electroacoustic music, literature, sound poetry, and poetic performance. He lives and works in France.
Alexandre’s music took me on a transformative journey, a walk on the edge of the Abyss. Through destruction, it led me to the belly and heart of the world and life.
How can performance become an act that transforms consciousness? The performance “Wars: The Sacred Blood of Dreamers” is a search for new ritual arts, combining post-butoh, body art, and acousmatic music as tools for transgression and the transformation of consciousness.
Sylwia Hanff
Shed blood, clothed in your own blood,
Wanderer, go, descend into the abyss,
See how, in place of the unknown, your face is embraced by
The vast sky,
Free your sacrificed existence from its spell,
Abandon the tragic destiny of laws
Bathed in crime.
What fate awaits those who disobey
The madness of power,
stricken with murderous rage?
Whom do you think you are opposing,
When your body separates itself from the desert of fear
Which is the grave of the world?
Alexandre Yterce, Wars [Op. 14]
[Translated from French: Katarzyna Marczewska]
Concept, direction, design, butoh: Sylwia Hanff
Acousmatic music: Alexandre Yterce
Premiere: November 2022
Duration: 20 minutes
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The performance uses radical means of expression and very loud music.
Tickets for the performance HERE.
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