Performance “Lamentation / ر ِ ﺛﺎء” | Poland
Creator: Aurora Lubos
Direction, choreography, stage design, costumes: Aurora Lubos
Music: Alex Catona, Michał Jacaszek
Lighting and sound design: Aurora Lubos
Cast: Aurora Lubos
Premiere: October 4, 2024
Date: August 22, 2026 | Saturday
Time: 5 pm
Place: Room A_22, Art Factory in Łódź, 3 Tymienieckiego Street
Tickets: 25 PLN - industry | 40 PLN - early bird | 50 PLN - reduced | 70 PLN - regular
Early bird tickets: on sale from June 23, 2026 until July 7, 2026 or until they are sold out | via biletomat.pl portal | online payment
Regular and reduced tickets: on sale from July 8, 2026 until they are sold out | via biletomat.pl portal | online payment
Industry tickets: for cultural workers, on sale one hour before the selected event, at the Festival Office | cash or contactless card payment | booking: from June 23, 2026, by mail:biuro@retroperspektywy.com
Duration: 40 minutes
Age restrictions: 13+
Language: Performance with subtitles in Polish and Arabic
Content warning: Loud sounds
After the performance, around 6 pm, we invite the viewers to a meeting and discussion with the artists.
The discussion will take place in the Room A_22 of the Art Factory in Łódź.
The discussion will be led by Tomasz Domagała.
The discussion will be held in Polish.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PERFORMANCE
Since the fall of 2023, we have been witnessing - in the media - the best-documented genocide in world history. Suffering, death, and images of the human tragedies of Palestinian children, women, and men in the Gaza Strip. “Lamentation” has become a place of mourning for a home, a place of vanishing landscapes, of life. It is a performance without words, because I cannot find them. It is a lament for a single human being, alone in powerlessness, helplessness, fear, and anger, on a small patch of sand.
“Life seems to be one eternal, never-ending day. A day filled with suffering and scenes of horror that you see so often they begin to blur together. Our new collective routine is listening, witnessing, sitting, walking amidst death.”
(Bahzad Al-Akhras, Gaza, Palestine 2024)
INFORMATION ABOUT THE ARTIST
Aurora Lubos - independent artist from Gdańsk who has been active in the Tri-City and British art scenes for 30 years. She is the creator of several original works, including solo performances, installations, performances, short animations, audiovisual broadcasts, performative installations, and videos. Her most significant works include: “Akty (Acts)” (a performance based on the true stories of people who have experienced domestic violence), “Z Wody (From the Water)” (a performance staged on the beach in Sopot on Solidarity with Refugees Day), “Witajcie/Welcome” (a performance about the 2015 migration crisis, inspired by a stay at the Slovenian-Austrian border and the stories of people reaching Europe via the Mediterranean Sea), and “Lament” (a performance dedicated to the Gaza Strip, mourning the loss of everything before the eyes of the whole world). Since 2019, a co-founder and member of the Arbuz Association, which works on behalf of refugees and people with limited access to education and the arts. From 2000 to 2024, a performer with the English theatre company Vincent Dance Theatre. From 2020 to 2022, she volunteered, initially with the Homo Faber Association and later with the Granica Group, actively participating in humanitarian aid efforts at the Polish-Belarusian border. These encounters gave rise to “Postcards from the Border,” “The Border,” and “Shelter” - works dedicated to the humanitarian crisis at that border.
