Shared events. Shared life and shared experience. Breathing the same air. One afternoon something breaks. A whirl of changes once set into motion, leaves an irremovable mark on common experience.
Wake Up… is an attempt at a laboratory-like distillation of the group process in which each individual works in the conditions of complete isolation. The work focuses on how individual artists perceive their shared experiences. It searches for an answer to the question of to what extent we can treat artists’ experiences as ‘collective’ and to what extent we should treat them rather as a collection of simultaneous, isolated experiences.
Maat Theatre Project was founded in 2004 in Lublin and is maintained by Tomasz Bazan. The core members of the group are Justyna Jasłowska (since 2004) and Kinga Borun (since 2006). Their artistic explorations were inspired by an attempt to discover a pure body language. This objective was achieved by a synthesis of various cultural qualities combining visual and performance arts, which was later transferred into the realm of the theater. As its main means of expression the theater chose visual actions and experiments based on leading the body by means of a variety of dance techniques (e.g. contemporary dance, elements of marital arts) with particular emphasis on the dance butoh.
Maat Theatre Project functions as an independent cultural institution based at the Center of Culture in Lublin, where it has its registered office and dance studio. Acclaimed for its activities by critics in Poland and abroad, the theater is regarded as one of the most important associations of its type in Poland.