“RAW” DANCE PERFORMANCE | III YOUTH THEATRE ARTS FESTIVAL “SOL ORIENS”

The invited dance performance “RAW”, presented as part of the “Sol Oriens” Youth Theatre Arts Festival programme, invites audiences to look at the human psyche without embellishment or predetermined answers.

“RAW” is a dance performance about what often remains unspoken within us: inner tension, vulnerability, psychological and existential crises, and states for which we do not always find the right words.

The creators of the performance – “Physical ArtHouse” – based their creative process on the “Verbatim” method and principles of contemporary choreography. They turned to the real stories of people experiencing psychological, existential and social crises. Sentences and fragments recorded during conversations, preserving their authentic language, rhythm and tone, became the starting point for the movement in the performance.

The title “RAW” refers to an unprocessed, unembellished state. Just as a RAW file in photography preserves an image before it is edited, the dance performance seeks to preserve human experience before it is explained, categorised or “put in order”.

On stage, the body becomes a kind of archive. It records fatigue, tension, vulnerability and things that cannot always be expressed in words. Restrained, at times trembling choreography, pauses and silence create an emotional landscape in which words meet the body’s reactions.

“RAW” is a 45-minute dance performance in which documentary material and contemporary dance come together in a sensitive story about a person experiencing an uncomfortable inner state.

The direction and choreography are by “Physical ArtHouse”; texts and dramaturgy were created by Iwa Pytiak; sound design by Myah.

The performance features Natalia Hass, Julia Perzyńska, Marek Zadłużny, Radosław Bajon and Gabriel Zaborniak.

Duration – 45 min.

“RAW” is presented as part of the “Sol Oriens” Youth Theatre Arts Festival programme.