THE ARMY - TEATR AKADEMIA RUCHU (Poland)

The theatre was founded in Warsaw in 1973. Its founder and artistic director was Wojciech Krukowski. From the very beginning of its activity, the Akademia Ruchu has been known as a “theater of behaviors” and visual narrative. The Akademia Ruchu is a creative group active on the borderland between different disciplines: theatre, visual arts, performance art, and film. Common features of the Akademia Ruchu’s creative process are: movement, space, and social message. These elements are related to their belief that artistic radicalism and social message are not mutually exclusive. Since 1974, the Akademia Ruchu’s works in open urban space have taken form of regular and continuous activity. They realized over six hundred street performances, events and actions. In Poland it was the first case of systematic actions of a creative group – outside the official sphere of the cult of art – in the “non-artistic” places: in the streets, in apartments, in industrial zones. On the other hand, elements of everyday in practice of the Akademia Ruchu brought into a “sacred” space of art (on stage, to the gallery) enriched its anthropological vision, without weakening its aesthetic one. The Akademia Ruchu has presented its works in almost all European countries, as well as in the Americas and Japan. The Army (premiere: 1991) is a dynamic visual action. Their succeeding, continuously updated versions are an attempt of interpretation of Europe’s vicissitudes. Our knowledge of the world often takes form of a statistical puzzle involving our attention and memory in degree depending on our cultural experience and standards of everyday life. The Army tells about order and disorder, about direction and the loss of direction. It also tells about the potential of a map of human lives – about its local and symbolic dramaturgy.

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ARMIA - TEATR AKADEMIA RUCHU (Polska)
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Project page accompanying festival

Ministerstwo Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego
The festival was supported by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage

Teatr Kana Szczecin