Aleksandra Rosiak
Aleksandra Rosiak
Theatre Director/Actor/Producer
Poetry was first, then came theatre. The two became inseparable in my search for an ideal means of expression. In poetry I search for the sublime, the subconscious, the off-scene, in theatre - for the aural and visual spectacle that can animate the words and the meanings they carry. In my work for stage I do not attempt to follow a linear sequential structure of drama, but rather strive to create an impressionistic vision, a multi-layered interpretation of poetry and myth in a contemporary setting. My objective is to find an alternative form of artistic and reflective articulation, allowing the examination, expression and communication of archetypal patterns and their relevance in contemporary world.
In my work I wish to ask questions about the Beginning and the End, therefore, mythologies, legends and fairytales are my chosen points of departure. I hope to encourage the audiences to look for the answers to these questions and to participate in the shows either mentally or physically, as if they came to undergo a communion.
Every theatrical production is a ground for experimentation, an amalgamation of different aspects of theatre and visual arts in a creative process involving actors as artists, artists as poets, the audience as artists and poets. I try to endow poetical texts with visual and physical qualities and to encapsulate language in an organic and sensory form. I believe that my approach to theatre as an artistic medium echoes that of Antonin Artaud: “It has not been definitely proved that the language of words is the best possible language. And it seems that on the stage, which is above all a space to fill and a place where something happens, the language of words may have to give way before a language of signs whose objective aspect is the one that has the most immediate impact upon us.”
In my work I wish to ask questions about the Beginning and the End, therefore, mythologies, legends and fairytales are my chosen points of departure. I hope to encourage the audiences to look for the answers to these questions and to participate in the shows either mentally or physically, as if they came to undergo a communion.
Every theatrical production is a ground for experimentation, an amalgamation of different aspects of theatre and visual arts in a creative process involving actors as artists, artists as poets, the audience as artists and poets. I try to endow poetical texts with visual and physical qualities and to encapsulate language in an organic and sensory form. I believe that my approach to theatre as an artistic medium echoes that of Antonin Artaud: “It has not been definitely proved that the language of words is the best possible language. And it seems that on the stage, which is above all a space to fill and a place where something happens, the language of words may have to give way before a language of signs whose objective aspect is the one that has the most immediate impact upon us.”
