Performa 13 · Event · Akademia Ruchu

Akademia Ruchu Chinese Lesson / Chińska Lekcja

Wednesday, November 6, 7:00 pm

Segal Theatre, The Graduate Center CUNY, 365 Fifth Ave MAP
FREE

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Marking their 40^th anniversary this year, Akademia Ruchu, (‘Academy of Movement’), is a group operating at the intersection between art and theater, which was founded in 1973 in Warsaw, Poland, where it brought together a group of performers with a wide range of academic and physical training – from ballet to martial arts. The group have consistently pursued the ‘politicization of aesthetics’, as a strategy to engage with a general public and have engaged in insightful reflections on communist and post-communist Poland, finding ways to communicate even when particular forms of speech and action are censored. Performa 13 is excited to present Chinese Lesson / Chińska Lekcja is an evening composed of a series of performances; short five to ten minute pieces involving five members of the group, originating out of thirty years of Akademia Ruchu's experience in building their own visual theatrical language.

Chinese Lesson / Chińska Lekcja is co-presented by Performa, the Polish Cultural Institute New York and The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Part of the Polish Pavilion Without Walls.

Artist

Akademia Ruchu

Funding

Generously supported by the Polish Cultural Institute New York, Fundacja Sztuka i Współczesność, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, and the Polish Ministry of Cultural and National Heritage.