WHENEVER THERE ARE PEOPLE TO DANCE,
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WHENEVER THERE ARE PEOPLE TO DANCE, UNTIL THAN WE'RE GONNA is a sci-fi, action-packed quest into Utopia. TERAZ POLIŻ and BLAUE FRAU takes the audience on a journey into an international, multilingual futuristic vision of an ideal world, where all our problems have been solved, where there is no inequality, violence or fear, where anything is possible, and dreaming is just planning ahead.
It’s an optimistic agenda for a peaceful revolution, perpetuated by the following questions: Is utopia a place, period or process? Is change possible? If something once unattainable was finally within our grasp, what would that make us? The production combines different traditions and languages (Polish, Swedish, English), bringing together the individual and the collective, the private and the societal. It’s like a children’s game, where the rules can change as unbridled imagination comes first. The title WHENEVER THERE ARE PEOPLE TO DANCE, UNTIL THAN WE'RE GONNA is practically untranslatable due to the intentional mistakes it contains, which befuddle its meaning. Such a title shouldn’t exist, just like utopia. And yet we try to chart this paradise, name it and strive to reach it - and these struggles outweigh the mistakes made along the way. In an ideal world there’s nothing wrong with making mistakes. We have grown accustomed to believe that society, teams or working groups should be “put in order” by forming a hierarchy of power, or at least by placing a role model or charismatic leader on a pedestal. We have grown accustomed to believe that the actors, directors and the audience have strictly defined roles in theatre and that is the only way to go. We have also grown accustomed to believe that without structure neither work nor decision-making is possible, and that sooner or later chaos would ensue and so a “captain” is indispensable. But what if another way is possible? The entire process of working on this production was our attempt to create a non-hierarchical model of dialogue - an attempt which proved successful. That is how this production came to be - free of power structures, top-down hierarchy, without a “captain of the ship”. |
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Cast: Sonja Ahlfors, Dorota Glac, Marta Jalowska, Ula Kijak, Adrianna Kornecka, Emanuela Osowska, Joanna Wingren
Scripted and directed by TERAZ POLIŻ & BLAUE FRAU
Stage and costume design by Gabrielle Vaara and TERAZ POLIŻ & BLAUE FRAU
Poster design by Johan Isaksson
Stage design collaboration while on tour: Dominika Skaza
Duration - 2h
Scripted and directed by TERAZ POLIŻ & BLAUE FRAU
Stage and costume design by Gabrielle Vaara and TERAZ POLIŻ & BLAUE FRAU
Poster design by Johan Isaksson
Stage design collaboration while on tour: Dominika Skaza
Duration - 2h
FINNISH PREMIERE - 22.11.2014, Pop Up Art House, Diana Stage, Helsinki
POLISH PREMIERE - 20.02.2015, Karuzela Club at Bemowo Cultural Center, Warsaw
POLISH PREMIERE - 20.02.2015, Karuzela Club at Bemowo Cultural Center, Warsaw
Special thanks to those who helped us in the process of our work by running workshops, lectures, discussions, both for and with us:
Carl Knif, Tiina Rosenberg, Annika Tudeer, Professor Monika Płatek, Milena Trzcińska & Łukasz Stępnik, Łukasz Wójcicki, Mateusz Szymanówka.
The Polish premiere was organised with money raised in the Polak Potrafi [Poles, They Can] crowdfunding campaign.
Carl Knif, Tiina Rosenberg, Annika Tudeer, Professor Monika Płatek, Milena Trzcińska & Łukasz Stępnik, Łukasz Wójcicki, Mateusz Szymanówka.
The Polish premiere was organised with money raised in the Polak Potrafi [Poles, They Can] crowdfunding campaign.
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CO-PRODUCED BY FINNISH
SWEDISH-SPEAKING THEATRE GROUP 
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PARTNERS
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CO-ORGANISERS BEHIND
THE POLISH PREMIERE 
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photo: Frank A. Unger
2016
Vårscenefest / Tromsø (Norway)
Gothenburg Fringe Festival / Gothenburg (Sweden)
FestiBorg Theatre Festival / Sarpsborg (Norway)
2017
Turteatern / Stockholm (Sweden)
Vårscenefest / Tromsø (Norway)
Gothenburg Fringe Festival / Gothenburg (Sweden)
FestiBorg Theatre Festival / Sarpsborg (Norway)
2017
Turteatern / Stockholm (Sweden)
2016
BEST OF FRINGE at the 2016 Gothenburg Fringe Festival - "Boundary breaking. Gender bending. Empowering"
MOST MESMERIZING at the 2016 Gothenburg Fringe Festival - "For immersing the audience in a total environment where outside reality stops yet is constantly present"
BEST OF FRINGE at the 2016 Gothenburg Fringe Festival - "Boundary breaking. Gender bending. Empowering"
MOST MESMERIZING at the 2016 Gothenburg Fringe Festival - "For immersing the audience in a total environment where outside reality stops yet is constantly present"
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A BIG SHOUT OUT TO ALL THOSE WHO SUPPORTED US IN OUR CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN:
Kinga Kozbuch, Monika Raj, Paweł Stelmach, Agata Śleszycka, Klaudia Lewczuk, Klaudiusz Kaufmann, Alicja Brudło, Marcin Tyrol, Ewa Horszczaruk, Wojtek Faruga, Magdalena Daszkiewicz, Tomasz Kaczmarczyk, David Andriyan, Emilia Kobylińska, Jagoda Wiechec, Ola Knedler, Zuzanna Bućko, Eliza Rudzinska, Ludmila Laskowska-Pańków, Adrian Rzetelski, Paweł Kos, Edward Porembny, Marcin Polak, Łukasz Ignasiński, Jacek Łagowski, Bogna Warszawa, Magda Karel, Dominika Żuchowska, Kamil Niedziałek, Tamara Allina, Anna R. Burzynska, Honorata Ogórek, Justyna Sotomska, Aleksandra Bednarz, Przemek Kamiński, Anna Fąfara, Natalia Szelachowska, Kora Gałązka, Robert Osowski, Marta Samulska, Marta Miłoszewska, Jakub Kabus, Magda Wierzejska, Natalia Rumianowska, Robert Zawadzki, Marcin Demurat, Dominika Ogrodnik, Kasia Łukasiewicz, Anna Tenenbaum, Mariusz Kamiński, Piotr Onopa, Agata Adamiecka, Tomasz Ostrowski, Dorota Kryszkowska, Hanna Zakrzewska, Filip Jalowski, Mirka Jalowska, Adam Błaszczyk, Łukasz Czapski, Agnieszka Rataj, Joanna Drozda, Magdalena Malińska, Marta Keil, Janusz Lewoń, Rafał Kosowski, Jasiek Aleksandrowicz-Krasko, Kasia Syty, Dominika Skaza, Jaromir Wroniszewski, Agata Chałupnik, Alicja Kosakowska, Anna Kijak, Małgorzata Radkowska, Anna Grycewicz, Robert Łuczak, Jacek Ciepliński, Klaudia Brzezińska, Mariusz Karpowicz, Katarzyna Koślacz, Joanna Siercha, Piotr Dąbrowski, Zygmunt Miłoszewski, Olek Janiszewski, Michał Morawski, Grzegorz Reske, Krzysztof Chlebicki, Anna Jaszuńska, Marcin Wiśnios, Tomek Andrzejewski, Bogusław Kijak, Tomasz Krawczyk, Wojciech Adamczyk, Sylwia Domańska, Ireneusz Steć, Emil Madelski, Stefan Wrocławski, Przemo Tabernacki, Agnieszka Kijak, Wojciech Kijak, Andrzej Szubski, Agata Simińska, Andrzej Grabczyk, Blanka Hasterok, Dorota Nasiorowska, Magdalena Klukaczyńska, Filip Zagórski, Jagoda Valkov, Jan Sobijanek, Magda Buczak, Magdalena Skomorowska, Magdalena Zamorska, Monika Rozalska, Paulina Czapska, Wiesław Roman Thesing, Joanna Bereda, Marta Aksztin, Helena Świegocka, Iwona Wyszogrodzka, Milena Trzcińska, Marta Suzin, Marta Burczyk, Mariusz Adamski, Sebastian Świąder, Patryk Szpyrka, Mateusz Szymanówka, Marta Malikowska, Witold Mrozek, Jaś Kapela, Tomasz Mycan, Marta Listwan, Karolina Maciejaszek, Marta Kozarzewska, Malina Chojecka, Jan Czapliński, Ida Abramowicz, Aleksandra Panisko, Ania Kawalec, Anna Wilczyńska, Dorota Mościbrodzka, Joanna Erbel, Justyna Kruszewska, Katarzyna Kaczmarek, Łucja Iwanczewska, Łukasz Gosławski, Maciej Wizner, Małgorzata Ignatowska, Marcin Łazęcki, Piotr Wawer jr
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