WELCOME – Aurora Lubos // Performing Poland
Welcome
Performance by Aurora Lubos
I am interested in human being who is safe but unwilling to accept others who are fleeing war, conflict, oppression, death and hunger. I’m interested in the situation of conflict, danger and suffering. And what that fed, happy, Western European man would feel in such a place and what he would feel towards people whose daily reality is struggle for life.
So many people: infants, children, young men and women, couples, families, elderly and disabled people, representing every stage of life and every type of man that you can meet in your neighborhood.” [Part of text, volunteer, the refugee camp in Dobova, Slovenia]
Duration: ca. 45 min.
Schedule
AURORA LUBOS, dance artist; since 1997 she has been a collaborator of the Gdańsk Dance Theatre, the Baltic Sea Cultural Centre (also in Gdańsk), the Baltic University of Dance, Dada von a Bzdülöw Theatre, the Lift Klub Gdański Culture Island group, and a collaborator of the Żak Gdański Club and Specialist Service, a centre for victims of domestic violence in Rusocin, among others.
Since 2000 he has been an actor with the Vincent Dance Theatre in the UK. Author and contributor of several independent performances: solo (Zanzibar, Unfinished, Knife, Horse and Stairs, Akty, Not allowed, Hello/ Welcome, Ziemia); installation (Still Alive, Food Cycle, Without Home); short film (Winter 2010 - series); as a participant in visual-verbal performance (Antoni Kępiński during the plague, Gertrude Finkler - Artist in the field and in the yard, Artist in the street); in performance installation (Go, dance with your grandfather) and video (Ziemia 1, Ziemia 2). Akty was produced by the Polish Dance Platform in 2014 and has since been performed in many venues in Poland and abroad. In 2019, together with Honorata Martin, Oskar Martin, AnnaDomańska and Emilia Orzechowska, she founded Arbuz Association - an audiovisual mobile studio for refugees.
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.
