Alpine Symphony

Creative Team

directing, choreography and musical arrangement: Cezary Tomaszewski
script and dramaturgy: Klaudia Hartung-Wójciak
set and costume design: Natalia Mleczak
set designer's assistant: Patrycja Beliniak, Zuzanna Kundys
lighting direction: Jędrzej Jęcikowski

Cast

Wanda Agnieszka Dziewa
Jean/Yeti Jan Kochanowski
L’ainee Agnes Agnieszka Kulińska
Nguyen Mariusz Nguyen (guest) / Martyna Wojtysiak (guest)
Gaspard Jakub Pewiński
Wanda Monika Rostecka
Pierre/Yeti Artur Borkowski
Christophe/Yeti Krzysztof Szczepańczyk
Mysterious girl/Wanda Małgorzata Biela (guest)
Le jeune Agnes Agnieszka Charkot

Description

Premiere:
2 JUNE 2023
Centrum Sztuk Performatywnych I PIEKARNIA

Duration:
105 min (no intermission)

"Wanda Lives" – says Maria nearly twenty years after her daughter's disappearance on Kangchenjunga. She explains to all of Wanda's friends that there is a spiritual center of the world in the Himalayas, and since the world in which Wanda had lived had failed her, she decided to reside and stay forever in the mountains. […] she now lives in a monastery […] in Tibet, close to the spiritual navel of the world. Anna Kamińska's "Wanda. A Story of the Strength of Life and Death"

"Alpine Symphony. A Spiritualist-Mime Thriller Inspired by the Figure of Wanda Rutkiewicz with Music by Richard Strauss" is a symphonic action pantomime in nine bloody scenes full of love. It is a phantasmagoric story of Wanda Rutkiewicz's missing body, haunting and summoning the mime troupe at the moment when refusal to discuss, escape, and disappearance seem to be the only right path.

"Alpine Symphony" is a journey in search of corporeal-political healing, leading through mountain meadows inhabited by white, fluffy Yetis, reminiscent of popes and phantoms, deceptively similar to Tomaszewski; meadows shrouded in the legend of Wanda, hovering in the mist; Tibetan monasteries atop eight-thousanders.