Jerzy Grotowski

In 1980, Jerzy Grotowski asked his friend Mercedes Gregory to put together a film crew and travel with him to the small village of Nienadowka, Poland, where he and his family were sheltered during the German Nazi occupation. In this search for the people, places, images, sounds, and memories indelibly linked to his art, Grotowski reconnects with the locations where he had his most penetrating experiences and challenges us to rediscover our original joy, what he eloquently calls "the movement within the repose."

"Cuando se revisa la teoría del "Teatro Pobre" en el cual lo único realmente importante es el actor y el proceso de santificación que requiere tener para transmitir lo que realmente es, nos encontramos que esta es una visión interesante de lo que resultan los procesos de autoconocimiento que fundamentan todo el esquema de poder humano"

"The Magdalena Project is a dynamic cross-cultural network of women's theatre and performance, facilitating critical discussion, support and training. It is a nexus for diverse performance groups and individuals whose common interest lies in a commitment to ensuring the visibility of women's artistic endeavour"

"Theatre director and theoretician, educator, creator of acting methods. Grotowski was born in 1933 in the city of Rzeszow in southeastern Poland and died in 1999 in Pontedera, Italy. He is considered to have been one of the greatest reformers of 20th century theatre. "

"Director, pedagogo y teórico del teatro. Innovador de los conceptos teatrales del siglo XX. Su nombre se asocia con la "segunda reforma del teatro" que en los años 60 y 70 cambió radicalmente la manera de concebirlo"

"(Excerpt) Grotowski knows that to learn something means to conquer it in practice. One must learn through "doing" and not through memorization of ideas and theories . "

"En 1958 él hizo su principio directoral con la producción "dioses de la lluvia" (basada en una novela por Jerzy Krzyszton). Presagiando la notoriedad que era venir, esta producción era polémica para el uso en negrilla de Grotowski del texto. "