Training at Grotowski's "Laboratorium" in Wrozlaw in 1972 Screener

[@Channel-ew9dr]

I'm currently reading his book "Towards a poor theatre" and watching this is fascinating! He was one true artist.

[@mmitler]

Cieslak was my teacher. In Poland with his company, and then again privately in New York before he died. It's so great being able to see these films and share them with my own company - Theatre Group Dzieci. Thanks so much.

[@valeriarojas3972]

Thats beautiful. Where are you? It seems so important to the theater scene that there are people who continue to do it

[@arthurmarcus1779]

This may be too late for the person looking for the name of this exercise, but these are called "Plastiques" and involve isolations of all parts of the body.

[@artfilms07]

This is history dear Jason... Grotowski created an exciting physical theatre (non-naturalistic, non-realistic theatre form) in the 70th and this film shows the movement workshop and warmup of the actors. Many contemporary theatre are inspired by Grotowski's philosophy and method.

[@aoidos_cre-Azione_teatrale]

Grotowski´s theatre was a deep search into the human being, seen as unity of body and mind.

[@soniaflower7242]

Exactly! Ryszard Cieślak ❤ Hi was my Master. I remember him.

[@mauriliotadeu]

Tiive a honra de participar de dois econtros com o grande mestre Grotowski; sou um cara de sorte mesmo. A vida e o teatro merece o que temos de melhor.

[@soniaflower7242]

I remember him! ❤ Ryszard Cieślak.

[@abraxas444]

Remember seeing performance off Ryszard Cieślak in Wroclaw in 1972 in Grotowski Theatre To get a ticket was almost impossible.Spectale was deeply moving

[@4butterflycat]

my father used to teach this method to his fellow acting buddies.... I remember being a kid and watching an immulating

[@rocktothebone91]

Great video! Thanks for the upload :)

[@geraldvanwilgen]

He is training the brain not the body.. We al need to do this every day, discover our own space....

[@elmofromtheelmstreet]

What you see are rehearsals of Grotowski's actors. Grotowski had an incredible idea of purifying the theatre from all unnecessary elements: costumes, scenography and to concentrate on the play as a spiritual (relating to soul) and intimate experience. Bashing Grotowski for doing something that is not a theatre is like saying Bach had no idea how to compose music. I don't mean to disrespect you in any way. My intention is to correct your mistake.

[@FeedingGrounds]

I am ignorant of his work outside of Theatre History class, so please indulge me. How could this work inform a naturalistic performance to have theatrical "flights of fancy"?

[@iraseiden]

@@FeedingGrounds My own books and method discuss such a question. But, to 'cut to the chase' - Grotowski's method and aesthetics and philosophy are one side of the coin - the other side is your own aesthetics or that of a director and how they can take, use, adapt or be inspired by Grotowski's ideas, methods etc. For example most of Peter Brook's productions were conservative and straight and commercial. Not all, but his more commerical productions were conservative and straight. He was profoundly inspired by Grotowski. In Grotowki's productions they were 100% his avant-garde aesthetic. Whereas any actor or director could hide or integrate 99% of that aesthetic without anyone knowing the production/actors/director were inspired from Grotowski. Said another way, one can 'simply' make acting choices on stage which are completely embodied and whole without ever being reduced to Grotowski's aesthetic other than being embodied, whole.

[@JoachimLevel]

*it's Wroclaw (Wrocław)

[@eraclyon]

Sublime

[@wolfumz]

In this historic footage illustrious thespian Ryszard Cieslak pops it, _and_ locks it. The next course covers dropping it.

[@sberu9528]

Ancient comments renewed; thank you jerzy, thank you utube, thank you movement, thank you body, form and content, thank you incarnation and evolution and awareness. Thank you

[@volapuk49]

Probably one of the most talented people in theater.

[@Swissfoxx]

@JasonKrueger90 ahh you have not heard what Grotowski has said. Every person takes away something different. He looked at the elements of theatre, and decided to simplify it to the max, to get the focus on the actors. And each actor has a different way of rehearsing.

[@beirabass]

this is so amazing !!!!! i see kabuki and nôh techniques too, in this methods. Grotowski and Barba were both visionary genious.

[@SpicyBeanBeanieG]

epic

[@ruzickaw]

These are excellent movements when one is acting Hamlet or Othello. During a monologue one can move the hands so that the audience has something to look at.

[@SOUNDsculptures]

Mesmerising

[@justinekim8744]

This is actually hilarious if you don't know the context

[@Daniele_Manno]

Yup if you don't think of it as a documentary on acting training it's kind of an anticipation of Shaye Saint John's "Hand thing" joke

[@salomejasandroschvili7323]

If you perceive art through and because of context, you probably can't percieve it.

[@vedadcano2048]

True hahahahahahaha

[@memespdf]

thanks

[@Knallbart]

"There should always be a narrative, but more often than not, they want the audience to interpret that themselves" (that was unclear.) I meant that they have their narrative in the rehearsal and in the performance, but won't spell it out for the audience. So that if they do a piece on i.e. how lovely it is to swim, the audience COULD leave thinking it was on flying.. you know what i mean? It's challenging the audience's intelligence. Not spelling it out for them. :)

[@mauricioexenberger6225]

Quem está vendo este vídeo agora?

[@theklacharalambous4479]

Does anybody know the nameoif this exercise? I have a presentation on Jerzy Grotowski soon and I need to find out the name of this exercise as I'm demonstrating it. Thank you in advance.

[@aiksasa]

love it

[@Tibbzbbz]

this man was genius!

[@8davix8]

@8davix8 Quindi a distaccarsi anche dal rapporto con lo spettatore(audience) solo in seguito abbandonato

[@DrRobsonCamargo]

Ryszard Cieślak...... the actor

[@EvilEddtheRed]

i wonder if David Lynch counts him as an influence.

[@Huachafachon]

without grotowski theatre would be different today and actors would not have any life on stage. this movements are useful in every type of theatre. you might not like alternative theatre but if you can't acknowledge the contributions that grotowski and cieslak gave then you don't anything about theatre

[@alexsandraolywer7974]

Muito bom!

[@poverhxxx]

супер!

[@8davix8]

All interno diel binomio grotowsky-barba il primo tendeva a rappresentare il polo del valore inreriore la tendenza ad allontarsi dallla creazione artistica..cit Mirella schinio da. Alchimisti della scena

[@imperthean]

Not sure how to spell it, but can anyone tell me what the "en velux" is?

[@TheTanatito]

i am congratulating the style of expression to some people here...

[@stefanysanchez4911]

If someone can help me out with a performance of Grotowski. I need to apply his theory to a piece of theatre and I have no clue on what to do??

[@TheLunaticRazor]

I can help you

[@KitChellPoetry]

Ecstatic discipline. . .rejoice! The theater is dead! Long live the theater!

[@pvsnp3620]

Dwight asked me to watch this! 😂

[@RLShaman1]

its not really a narrative its a sequence

[@Huachafachon]

yeah cause it is so easy to move your hands like that and it doesnt involve a deep and meaningful physical work i feel sorry for people who think that this is stupid

[@sargentorock255]

is there more videos?...

[@Knallbart]

Usually there is a narrative. There should always be a narrative, but more often than not, they want the audience to interpret that themselves, so they exit the theatre with different opinions. The fact that you don't understand it is just because you don't take the time to "think out" a narrative, really. But I would assume that this video is just about gaining full control of the body, so... Maybe not in this video, but leading up to one (narrative).

[@lambertbutler5068]

Is Grotowski considered the founder of physical theatre?

[@zotharr]

No

[@amemename]

Ever heard of Ancient Greece? The theatre was physical before it relied on text

[@sheiklucas]

why I would not think that he's awesome?

[@rafced]

Popisuje sie przed laską. Nic więcej

[@polikiliop]

interesting!

[@traveljoe7220]

Like if you are from Corona's class

[@filip4553]

oh shit, someone is here after 15 years, someone looked here

[@traveljoe7220]

@@filip4553 lol yeah just did a paper for her class

[@pati3szpak]

not Wrozlaw but Wroclaw. :)

[@marcosolari9156]

ma chi è carmelo bene o mick jagger? eppure bevemmo qualche birra a venezia e a wroclaw...

[@crispetucho]

what kind of person thinks that?

[@ricconstituantabrogatoirei4999]

Iggy pop enlève ton masque !!! ahhahha

[@xx8307]

Exercice

[@skysnet]

why are these 2 dudes in their underwear and she is dressed?

[@xlovelivin]

I am actually not agree with you...this "crazy moves" as you called them are done in order to get more expresitivity through the bodie...As an actor you should remember as well that the body is the one that narrates the history...the body is the place where emotions can come out...text goes to second place then...

[@zubinmohamad]

very Asian theatre inspired

[@Despicable89]

good look short thumb

[@pasozyt8]

@pati3szpak even Wrocław;)

[@hugobandannas9909]

Out of this method is nothing. The limit of this training is that actor cannot improve with other different methods.

[@NomageAngel]

Find this video really interesting, by god do your hands ache after a while tho! xD

[@ISCDesignArchitect]

Oh i thought it was Iggy Pop..:)

[@janmunroe8180]

This is all Tomascevski technique which was derived from Decroux technique. Fairly simple counter weight exercises, etc. I never really "got" what Grotowksi's theatre was. I'm certainly no "Naturalistic" theatre wonk, viewing it as only a 100 year blip on the screen of Eons of theatrical activity in this world. But his work never seemed particularly coherent or organic to me. And I met WAY TOO MANY people who "read his book" instead of doing the physical work and used it as an excuse to do not very good work. It seems his whole point was to escape the "head" and translate that energy into the body.

[@soniaflower7242]

I see that you don't know. who was Ryszard Cieślak from Teatr Laboratorium - Jerzego Grotowskiego. (obecna nazwa Instytut im. Jerzego Grotowskiego) z siedzibą Wrocław - Rynek

[@janmunroe8180]

@@soniaflower7242 I"m well aware of him. I saw him perform a few times. And, being a well schooled theatre person and originally a movement actor who took his time and training in Europe, I understand the common pool of knowledge Cieslak's and Grotowski's work grew out of in Post WW2 Europe.. But do YOU have any practical knowledge of either Decroux work or the Tomascevski's Troupe? Doubt it. What is being demonstrated physically here is a technical mix from both those sources. Do a little looking into the historical basis of things, please, before lecturing. Thanks.

[@TheSlybuy]

is it me or does it seem that they don't really get what Cieślak is telling em. I get it I wish i was there :(

[@rigelxd3603]

no entender xd hola miss milsa :v

[@twistesceo]

I think he's teaching them how to dance like sponge bob squarepants......

[@arrkbats]

kinda weird

[@dr.tre90]

i hate twilight. and im an actor too. not a professional, its just my hobby. and i want to be a movie director. but in theatres like this the visualities are more important then the story, and often there isn't even a story, only stuff that you dont understand at all... i always disliked this kind of theatre.

[@candidatebosi]

If you go to theatre for the story, you're in the wrong place

[@hugoortega6784]

dont call yourself an actor then, please

[@Mattweu]

"Laboratorium" ? chyba kurwa radzieckie laboratorium LSD xD

[@anannyosamayel1350]

booring

[@peterobara7023]

Je prd ale to byla bieda....