About Amareya

 

Amareya 

 

in old Japanese:

 

heroic devotion

unconditional commitment

 

Amareya Theatre is a physical theatre of movement and body.

 

 

It was established in January 2003 by Agnieszka Kamińska, Katarzyna Julia Pastuszak and Aleksandra Śliwińska and works at the Artistic Centre „Winda" in Gdańsk. We do theatre out of a deep need of community and a need of meeting with oneself, with the others and with the world. For us, theatre means sharing, exchanging and learning how to approach another human being in a new true way.

The activities of Amareya encompass

artistic work - performances, theatre projects,

educational activities (workshops), publication of articles on theatre and dance,

animation of culture.

Amareya has  developed its own method of creative and educational work, based on butō dance, physical theatre, contemporary dance, African dance, voicework, yoga, psychosomatic practices.

Amareya Theatre presented its performances at various festivals, such as: Butō Dance Festival, Gdańsk Corporation of Dance Festival, „Wyjście z cienia", STTN (Gdańsk), Butoh Barter (Warsaw), Biesiada Teatralna (Parchowo), Tyskie Spotkania Teatralne - here thrice awarded, Student Theatres Festival ATENA, XV Alternative Theatre Meetings KLAMRA 2007 and others.

Amareya took part in the following projects: „Opening Doors III" with the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards, ‘Caravan Project' with Ang Gey Pin, ‘Mandala of life and death' with Atsushi Takenouchi, ‘Ten ku Youran' with Daisuke Yoshimoto, ‘Anatomical Theatre' with Joan Laage, „Dream Regime" with Gekidan Kaitaisha Theatre .

 

Amareya Theatre has so far created the following performances:

 

2010

• 'Rescued. On the edge of heaven.' - solo performance - Agnieszka Kamińska
• 'Inscriptions' –group performance at the Gdansk City Gallery

2009

• 'Faceless' - solo performance - Katarzyna Pastuszak
• '4 Maiden of Mottlau' with workshop participants, Galeria LKW Gdansk
• 'Do not give away' – with the blind from teh Blind Association ,,Sinol"

2008

• 'Tribute to J.S.' - solo performance - Agnieszka Kaminska
• ‘Exit – Transgressive Feminal Tryptodram’
• ‘Caravan Project’ with Ang Gey Pin and Anna Haracz (Kino Variatino)

2007

• ‘Dream Regime – Theatre for Community’ in cooperatio with Żak Culture Centre Gdańsk, Gekidan Kaitaisha Theatre, Joanna Czajkowska (Teatr Okazjonalny) and the teenagers from MONAR Addiction Therapy Centre Gdańsk (2007-2008)

2006

• ‘Ten ku Youran’ with Daisuke Yoshimoto
• ‘Anatomical Theatre Project: Viewer as Voyeur – The Body Beyond’ and ‘Anatomical Theatre – The Mystery of Life and Death’ with Joan Laage and Tomek Chołoniewski (2006-2007),2005

2005

• ‘Dialogue on 3 chairs’
• ‘Xenos’
• ‘Mandala of Life and Death’ with Atsushi Takenouchi
• ‘Eros and Thanatos’ with Daisuke Yoshimoto
• ‘Haiku of Three Women’

2004

• ‘The Dream of Icarus’

 

Dancers/actresses gained experience with masters of butō dance such as Itto Morita, Mika Takeuchi, Minako Seki, Marie-Gabrielle Rotie, Yumiko Yoshioka,  Atsushi Takenouchi, Yuri Nagaoka, Seisaku, Daisuke Yoshimoto, Ko Murobushi, Joan Laage. Amareya Theatre cooperates with Theatre and Performance Research Centre in Bröllin (Germany) and also with the Japanese Body Theatre – Gekidan Kaitaisha (Theatre of Deconstruction) directed by Shimizu Shinjin.

 

Amareya Theatre has so far received honourable mentions and rewards for the artistic value of ‘The Dream of Icarus’ (2005), for the originality of form in ‘Xenos’ (2007) and for stimulating the spectators’ imagination by ‘Exit – Transgressive Feminal Tryptodram’ (2008 – II prize of the jury) during  the Tyskie Spotkania Teatralne (Tychy Theatre Festival).

 

Amareya theatre explores:

 

• the psychophysical presence of the performer,
• performer’s individual extra-daily body technique
• organicity and infinite creative potentialities, developing and expanding body awareness
• development of creativity and spontaneity
• expression of emotions through movement and voice
• ways of treating the body in the modern societies: violence, control, devaluation of the body, dehumanising of death
• commenting the reality with movement and body