Distinguished Director visits College
Director and Theatre Practitioner Włodzimierz Staniewski recently visited Rose Bruford College of Theatre & Performance, where he gave a lecture in the Rose Theatre to the staff and students of the College.
Prior to the lecture Włodzimierz was greeted by the College Principal, Professor Michael Earley and Head of School of Performance, Emilio Romero and met with staff members during a lunch reception.
He is the founder and artistic director of the Centre for Theatre Practices Gardzienice, which was founded in 1977 in Poland. Staniewski’s unique practice emanates from close contact and observation of nature as well as expeditions and meticulous research into the roots of European culture and civilization. His training methodology underpinned by the concepts of Mutuality and Musicality, is considered among the most important of the 20th century.
Staniewski has directed, among others, the performances Gargantua and Pantagruel by Rabelais, Forefathers' Eve (a.k.a. Sorcery) by Adam Mickiewicz, The Life of Archpriest Avvakum, Carmina Burana, and his adaptations of Metamorphoses by Apuleius and Elektra and Iphigenia at Aulis by Euripides. The Centre for Theatre Practices Gardzienice have presented performances around the world and they are internationally acclaimed for their practice; a dynamic fusion of music, movement and singing. As a director and writer, Staniewski has run master-classes and given lectures in prestigious theatres and drama schools including the Royal Shakespeare Company (UK), Meyerhold Centre (Moscow), Theatre Conservatoire (Paris), National Theatre Studio, Barbican Centre (London), Magdalen College (Oxford), Waseda University (Tokyo), Getty Center, NYU, Yale, Stanford University (USA), and Warsaw University (Poland).
For more information please visit http://www.gardzienice.art.pl/
For further details, please contact: Jackie Winmill, Publicity Co-ordinator on 020 8308 2655 or email jackie.winmill@bruford.ac.uk
17/12/2009