direction, choreography, set design, music arrangement: Janusz Orlik
cast: Mariusz Józefiak, Jarosław Kubiak, Antek Kurjata, Daniel Laskowski, Lidia Piskorska, Piotr Roszak, Magdalena Szalbierz, Mariusz Sztuba, Arkadiusz Żmijewski
costumes: Agnieszka Ostrowska in collaboration with artists
light design: Janusz Orlik, Arkadiusz Kuczyński, Jacek Raczkowiak
therapeutic care: Hanna Rynowiecka
translation into Polish Sign Language: Antek Kurjata, Aleksandra Mayer
production: ZAMEK Culture Centre
This performance has been produced and presented to the public as part of the performative arts programme „Presence”, delivered by ZAMEK Culture Centre in Poznań in collaboration with CODA Oslo International Dance Festival and Teatr 21 of Warsaw, thanks to funding from the EEA and Norway Grants.
The best independent theater performance
The Best Off Competition 2022
The best dance performance
monthly “Teatr” ranking: The best in the 2022/2023 season
We are standing in front of you. We are standing close to you, very close.
We are looking in your eyes.
We can hear you breathing.
We are breathing in your words.
We are waiting.
Our dream becomes reality.
Our everyday life an incomprehensible normality.
Some kind of internal, personal conflict of trust.
Be patient.
‘Tranquillo’ in Italian means calmly. This is a term used in musical notation to help the performer convey the mood of the piece.
In the subtle and contemplative Tranquillo the artists persist, things happen, they interpenetrate slowly. The artists, paradoxically calm, invite us into their world and give us, the viewers, a chance to be with them and look at their (un)ordinary everyday life.
In fact, it is a show about ourselves.
“It is a performance suspended somewhere between emotion and impression, at the same time extremely specific, precisely composed and performed. Members of the WTZ ‘Przylesie’ in Poznań under the leadership of Janusz Orlik dance their limitations and overcome them. But Tranquillo is not only an encounter with alternative motor skills of the performers – it is a deeply moving, beautiful work of art. Regardless of whether we treat it as dance, theater, off or mainstream.”
Dominik Gac, Teatr
| 2:38
“The success of Tranquillo is certainly due to the breath of fresh air, breaking the patterns that have accompanied us for so long. This lack of artificiality, combined with the neat intertwining of characters and people and perhaps also the tranquillo of the title, makes the performance radiate peace. There is no sense of the well-known rush, no urgent need to prove some abstract concept to an unspecified audience, no motive to teach a moral lesson. Nevertheless, something is proven. However, I will leave this abstract ‘something’ to the consideration of the reader, whom I invite to become a viewer.”
Agnieszka Stańczak, Krakowski Teatr Tańca
/ 2:30
Audience feedback
“Tranquillo stops and shakes the viewer out of chaos, inviting them to a world where peace and slow experience are important.”
“Hypnotizing mystery and magic absorb and force reflection.”
“Tranquillo stops and shakes the viewer out of chaos, inviting them to a world where peace and slow experience are important.”