ACTS – Aurora Lubos // Performing Poland
Performance by Aurora Lubos
The piece is based on real stories of domestic violence and was conceived in reaction to reading letters and talking to people who experienced harassment.
Schedule
It draws on artistic classes run in support centres for abuse victims, which are mostly women and children:
I want to enable those who cannot scream in their defence to start talking. So that they could speak about their entanglement, helplessness, their yearning for silence. I conceived it as a sequence of acts – fragments of texts, exits, dissolution, images.
Credits:
**Direction, choreography, stage design and performance: **Aurora Lubos
Music: Motion Trio-Stars
**Duration: **45 min
Biogramme
Aurora Lubos – independent artist and activist associated with the contemporary dance scene in Gdańsk, Poland and Great Britain. Author of several powerful and original socially engaged solo performances and art installations. In her works she raised topics such as domestic violence, refugee crises and human rights. Her practice and creative process is based on gathering real stories and field work. Since 2000, she has been an actress at British Vincent Dance Theatre. Co-founder of the Arbuz Association, which works for people with refugee and migration experience.
Artus
Artus is an open, diverse intellectual and creative workshop, a meeting place for people, ideas and art.
Artus is both Gábor Goda's company, the Artus Studio - a studio in an abandoned factory building of 2000 square metres - and the collective of 30 artists who work there, as well as the Association, which provides the institutional backdrop.
Founded in 1985, Artus is an independent, contemporary, all-arts collective. We have created more than 100 performances and presented them in 25 countries. Since the beginning we have organised international projects, residencies and co-productions.
The Studio's regular programmes include performances by the Artus company, guest performances, visual arts exhibitions, music and other cultural events, as well as self-awareness and movement workshops.