Theatre and movement workshops "MOVE - CO-OPERATE - CREATE" | Poland
Leaders: Tomasz Rodowicz and CHOREA Theatre group
Date: August 30-31, 2025 | Saturday - Sunday
Time: 11 am - 2 pm
Place: Workshop Room, Art Factory in Łódź, 3 Tymienieckiego Street
Duration: 2 days, 3 hours a day
Age Restrictions: 16+
Workshops designed for: people involved in education and culture - teachers, theatre pedagogues, educators, animators, instructors, as well as employees of schools, community centres, libraries, museums, galleries, NGOs and artistic and educational institutions, as well as graduates of humanities and arts, creators and independent activists
Please bring: comfortable clothes and shoes
Language: workshops will be led in Polish
Cost: 180 PLN per person
How to apply:
- please send applications to the following address: chorea.warsztaty@gmail.com, or by phone: +48 667 326 711 (project coordinator: Janusz Adam Biedrzycki)
- applications are accepted from Monday to Friday, 10:00-18:00
- applications concern participation in the entire workshop - August 30-31, 2025
DESCRIPTION OF THE WORKSHOPS
This is the 4th event in a series of 9 specialised workshops aimed at educators and cultural staff, running from May to November 2025, as part of the “Laboratory of Creative Actions IV” project. The aim of the workshops series is to support participants in their professional, educational and creative work by providing practical tools, developing skills in working with groups and counteracting professional burnout. The project promotes a creative approach to work and supports personal and professional development. The series consists of workshops developing cultural, social and professional competences, led by experts in various fields. The meetings combine theory and practice.
The theoretical part of the workshop “MOVE - CO-OPERATE - CREATE” will introduce participants to the key educational and social activities characteristic of CHOREA Theatre. We will discuss the tools used by the CHOREA team in their artistic and didactic work. The starting point for the presentation will be the manual "Actors Physical Training. From individual to group actions”, which will introduce participants to the practical part.
The practical part will be focused on partnership and group activities, developing a sense of community. Through a series of exercises we will activate the body and deepen its awareness. Participants will experience for themselves the basic phenomenon of chorea - tri-unity - that is, the combination of movement, text and song in one coherent action. We will focus on the creative use of these resources - both individually and collectively - and on discovering authentic creative potential.
INFORMATION ABOUT THE LEADERS
Tomasz Rodowicz - artistic Director of CHOREA Theatre. An actor, director, musician, teacher, educator, theatre instructor, university lecturer, and earlier also a historian of philosophy and bee-keeper. Born in 1951 in Warsaw. A graduate of the Department of History of Philosophy at the Warsaw Theological Academy. A co-founder of the first social therapy centre for the young addicts in Poland. He has cooperated with Jerzy Grotowski and Teatr Laboratorium between 1974-1979 on para-theatrical initiatives. The co-founder and key actor of the Centre for Theatre Practices “Gardzienice”, its member and the leader of educational programmes between the years 1977-2003. The co-founder of CHOREA Theatre Association and its leader since 2004. The artistic director of Fabryka Sztuki in Łódź in the years 2007-2021. The artistic director of International Theatre Festival Retroperspektywy and the Nationwide Theatre Festival Perspektywy. The lecturer at the following universities: the University of Łódź, AST National Academy of Theatre Arts in Kraków (Bytom branch), The Leon Schiller National Film, Television and Theatre School in Łódź. The leader of multiple international educational, didactic, artistic projects and research expeditions for actors, theatre coaches and culture animators from around the world. Innovative musical and physical training expert and theatre workshop specialist. Worldwide authority in leading workshops for actors, dancers, singers, musicians, theatre instructors and culture animators. Co-author of a handbook “Actors physical training. From individual to group actions”. In 2014 he was awarded the Medal for Merit to Culture - “Gloria Artis” by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage. In 2018 he was awarded by the Mayor of the City of Łódź in recognition of his artistic achievements, culture protection and popularisation. In 2019 he received a Zygmunt Hübner “THEATRE FIGURE” award, established by Fundacja Teatru Myśli Obywatelskiej im. Zygmunta Hübnera - this way becoming part of distinguished laureates, i.e.: Anna Augustynowicz, Jan Englert, Jerzy Trela, Piotr Cieplak and Jacek Głomb.
CHOREA Theatre - a thriving, uncountable and unpredictable group of artists, performers, musicians, dancers, actors, practitioners, theatre and drama theorists. They create interdisciplinary artistic, educational and social projects: concerts, workshops and performances. They employ innovative, original work methods, going beyond the cultural mainstream. They direct their work, projects, actions and activities to: adults, youth and children, those who are regular theatre-goers, those with limited access to art, and those looking for alternative cultural initiatives. They put emphasis on team-building, joint cooperation, partnership, group dynamics, interrelations, the awareness of body, voice and musicality in their work.
The group has developed its own training technique, which involves working with the body, voice, and rhythm, as well as working with a partner and in a group. A key aspect of CHOREA’s method is teamwork - the ability to collaborate in a laboratory-like setting - while ensuring that the group's interest does not overshadow an individual's uniqueness. The aim of the method is to explore the substance of movement, sound, and word, combined into an integral whole, by breaking away from traditional ways of illustrating their mutual relationships. Awakening the entire body and intense training creates a stage presence that reconnects all these elements. CHOREA collaborates with many groups and artists from Poland and around the world. The theatre has produced dozens of performances and concerts. CHOREA works with many individual, experienced and renowned artists, as well as with amateurs, students, volunteers, people full of curiosity about the world, seekers, and active individuals. Under the theatre's umbrella operates: the Intergenerational Theatre Group, and the Youth and Children's Theatre Groups. The group regularly conducts a series of theatre and music workshops in Poland and around the world. Since 2010, CHOREA has been organising the International Theatre Festival “Retroperspektywy” (“Retrospectives”). In 2015, the theatre released the album “Lulabajki” (“Lullabies”) with music for both children and adults. In 2016, in collaboration with the Filmschool in Łódź and the National Institute of Music and Dance in Warsaw, CHOREA created the handbook “Actors' physical training. From individual to group actions”. In 2020, CHOREA Theatre held the online premiere of the album “Gilgamesz”, featuring music by Tomasz Krzyżanowski. In 2023, CHOREA recorded the album “Livet” (“Life”), a contemporary suite for the Earth, composed and arranged by Piotr Klimek, inspired by traditional songs from Bulgaria, Ukraine, Poland, and Norway.
The event takes place as part of the “Laboratory of Creative Actions IV” project.
Organiser: CHOREA Theatre
Partners: Art Factory in Łódź, School of the Educational Society “Education”
Project financed from the funds of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland, from the Culture Promotion Fund - a state special-purpose fund.
