Audiopollen is special pollen. Just like the pollen of flowers, it travels in the air. Once it reaches a person’s ear it sprouts into a series of images. You can follow it in a special capsule designed to be used by all our youngest viewers.
Audiopyłki is an innovative project created by the Children’s Art Centre in Poznań, aimed at encouraging children aged from four to six years to perceive music theatrically. It is a voyage across spaces within nature and the human body; a special journey focusing not on the visible but on the audible only. It is like a research expedition taking part in an especially designed vehicle of light and sound. The role of this mysterious device is to prepare the children for and make them open to contact with the unknown, to stimulate their imagination and to activate a series of associations leading to the construction of their own plots. Audiopyłki is an artistic experiment, an attempt to search for children’s yet undiscovered areas of aesthetic and intellectual sensitivity. Both its premiere and the subsequent visits of preschool children from Poznań in the cosmic capsule have been extremely successful.
Audiopyłki is an audio play combined with an expedition to a world where stories tell themselves without words – using only sound and light. It is the first attempt by Old Brewery New Dance for Children to open the youngest audience to an installation merging various fields of visual arts. As always, we are interested in the sphere of children’s poly-sensory experience and in developing their creativity. This time, however, they will only be dancing in their imagination stimulated by the Audiopollen sounds and images swirling around in their heads.
The voyage includes:
– A warm-up
– Listening to an expedition journal (6 minutes)
– Preparation for the voyage/putting on special suits
– A journey in the Audiopollen Capsule
– Sonorous integration
The Painted Garden is an exceptional interactive dance and multimedia show in which children are invited to accompany dancers in the world on stage, a world filled with sensors that respond to movement and sound. Spontaneous and filled with surprising twists the show is a memorable adventure for children where they are not only able to observe the story of the wonderful garden but also to experience it with their bodies. New interactive and multimedia technology makes it possible to record every movement on stage in the form of images and sounds. The Italian company skilfully creates visually amazing worlds which provide children with an opportunity to fully participate in the creative process.
The workshops are a chance to enter even more deeply into the multimedia world created during the show. Children will work with the artists and become familiar with the secrets of the magical multimedia carpet, the main feature of most of TPO’s performances. The workshops are movement-focused and avail of an interactive installation that interacts with children.
Baby Space is a unique installation offering infants and their parents an extraordinary sensory, artistic and interpersonal experience. It is a space that stimulates all the senses and makes everyone feel safe and free.
The interdisciplinary project combines multimedia, animation, dance, music, theatre and words. The premise which Dalija Aćin Thelander, a Serbian choreographer living in Sweden, based her concept on was the inviting of local artists: dancers, musicians, actors, filmmakers, singers, stage designers etc. to work together on the creating of a space that children would find both friendly and stimulating. Stary Browar is the second venue in the world in which this exceptional space will be created with the contribution of some very interesting artists who also work in the field of art for children.
Baby Space works in two ways: as an interactive choreogrhapy installation and as a dance performance inside the installation. The installation space is clearly separated from the surroundings and comprises three areas of sensing:
an area of tactile sensations – the installation interior is made of soft and resilient material that is pleasant and smooth to touch
an area of auditory sensations – the music is abstract in nature and provides a backdrop for the sensory experience; but it can also be a guide within the space, just like the words which emerge with the sounds – resonant words filled with mysterious meanings and
an area of visual sensations – short films and visualisations that enter as smudges of colour into the immaculately white space; this area also extends to movement when, during the performances, the dancers appear.
Lie down comfortably and see all the things that can happen. Please feel welcome in the cosy and soft world of the great duvet which conceals so many secrets. Feel free and safe. See how much happens between being awake and falling asleep. Śpij (Go to Sleep) is a show about how the seemingly ordinary activity of going to sleep may become inspiring and surprising; a show which looks at everyday life from a non-everyday perspective and with an inquisitiveness for discovering the world that only infants display. Śpij was created with the youngest theatre audience in mind. This means children aged from several months to 3 years. Especially for them Teatr Baj has created a safe, cosy and comfortable environment where they can feel completely free and feel not only like viewers but also like guests. One of the main premises of the show is to stimulate the infants’ imaginativeness and creativity.
Śpij is a show that is open to audience interaction and spontaneity, in which artists wish to creatively process children’s expression instead of restricting it. The actors’ enormous openness to the viewers’ responses, live music played on acoustic instruments, gentle light and a friendly ‘cushiony’ atmosphere make audiences of all ages feel cosy. The show is open in structure and, in fact, could never end, especially if parents want to continue with their children the games suggested during the show at home.
Imagine yourself waking up one morning to a landscape covered in a blanket of snow. The world is new, fresh and pure. Everything appears different and the ambience is one of secret poetry. You look on the world from a different perspective; that of one with SnowEyes.
SnowEyes is a dance production that explores the world from a child’s perspective. Children under four absorb things and have an unbiased approach to the world. In the performance we share a child’s amazement and wonder at the first experience with snow.
Tali Rázga has created a production performed by two dancers and one musician.
Playing and constantly moving are activities that children love best. In his workshop Janusz Orlik reaches out to children’s natural potential to move and play. Instead of a complicated dance lesson the choreographer wants to propose spontaneous exercises, movement games and natural forms of activity. Apart from availing of their own bodies the youngsters will also use props to make the classes more appealing and to check how simple objects can set not only their bodies but also their imaginativeness in motion.
The workshop invites children to an abstract and mysterious world of electronic sounds and multimedia images. During the class children will embark on a sound expedition guided by two multimedia artists who will share their passion with them. By constructing mobile sculptures from their own bodies, connecting into long chains and playing together using simple electronic structures the young participants and the artists will discover the world of generating sounds and images. They will be in a small multimedia lab where the children will be able to have a go at building simple electronic instruments, will find out what a lemon sounds like and how body movement can affect an image.
The workshop will also be a unique encounter between two major figures from the Polish alternative electronic music scene who share a fascination with working with children.
We would like to invite children to discover together the sound layer which surrounds our world, as well as the relationships between sound and movement. During the workshop we will learn to actively listen, distinguish sounds, name them, describe them with words and express them through movement. We want to provide children with knowledge and to stimulate their active listening skills, i.e. the naming, classifying and describing of sounds. The basic tools we will use during the workshop are our ears, our own bodies and ideas. Moreover, we will use various devices to record and amplify sounds. Different kinds of microphones will serve as microscopes for our ears to explore the world of sounds. These will include contact microphones which allow us to hear the marching of a spider on a pane of glass; directional microphones which provide for the recording of selected sounds from a large distance, for example a bird singing in a tree, and condenser microphones which collect sounds from the environment. We will also use binaural microphones and hydrophones (to listen to sounds underwater, for instance in an aquarium). We would like to propose a number of sound and movement games, in addition to producing sounds for our dancing friends. We will not use any musical instruments, but various objects and our own bodies (by moving, breathing and using our voices). We will imagine the stories that sounds conceal, we will dance them out and tell them. Sound is born out of movement…
Children see the world in a magical way. During the workshop they will have an opportunity to play imaginary roles. This identification process that is natural to children and important from the cognitive point of view will be used to teach them steps and animate their movement. The activating of the children’s imaginativeness will set them in motion, whilst telling a story as they are dancing and making a reference to a familiar fairy tale or magical character will give meaning to their dance. The movement will no longer be abstract but will be like a costume used to enact magical roles and experience exciting adventures.
During the Dance and Tell a Story workshop, the instructor Magda Woskowicz will act intuitively and respond to the children’s individuality and the uniqueness of each encounter. She will encourage them to open themselves and to act since she believes that dance and the development of free expression is a necessary impulse to uncover their fascinating potential.
Each workshop will teach the children awareness of their bodies, coordination, balance, a sense of rhythm and the interpretation of sounds. In addition to a friendly and creative environment the choreographies, adapted to the children’s abilities, will make the children eager to accept challenges as a group and to build social bonds. All this will create a dance community that will add much joy and valuable skills to their childhoods. This form of leisure allows children to develop an open approach to the world and is an exciting alternative to television and computer games. Moreover, parents can see their children in some quite unusual and even surprising roles and get to know them better.
Imagine that playing becomes dancing. All the choreographic ideas are inspired by the unlimited imagination of children whilst the workshop instructor becomes their guide and the organiser of this extraordinary world of movement. By combining familiar and completely unknown motion games with the spontaneous reactions of the young participants’ bodies the workshop makes them enjoy being together with other children, allows them freedom of action and gives them great satisfaction at creating their own motional world. The instructor’s openness to the children’s ideas and her ability to communicate with them through movement does not restrict them but expands their natural potential whilst teaching them to function and act within a specific space and developing their motor coordination and sense of rhythm. The dancers during the workshop are the children and their imagination.
Do everyday activities have anything in common with dancing? What can turn even tooth brushing into choreography? Can words be danced? Can the body speak?
We will improvise together by referring to activities which are usually not associated with dancing. With components like space, tempo and movement levels and with the support of our senses, each of us will get the opportunity to create our own recipe for dance, our individual language of movement.