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| The Chorus of Women | ||||||||
| 18 January 2012, Abhimanch, 8:30 pm | ||||||||
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Director: Marta Gornicka |
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| Over one hundred women appeared at the casting for The Chorus of Women, a performance by Marta Górnicka. They differ from one another in age, life experiences and professional careers. What they have in common is their femininity and the problem of defining it in a way that gets to the truth about them and at the same time avoids numerous stereotypes. They tell us about their feelings of being lost using the excerpts of Antigone by Sophocles, the works by Simone de Beauvoir, pieces of commercials, the choruses of pop hits, motifs from fairy tales, films, operas and … recipes. Since early childhood they have been fed on fairy tales about Snow White dying and waiting for the kiss of the prince that is supposed to bring her back to life, and with films about sex bombs, a sort of Lara Croft, whose intelligence and knowledge is only a meaningless addition to their silicon breasts and sensuously parted lips. As well as with stories about women’s devotion in the style of “Halka” by Moniuszko, whose eponymous character, deceived and abandoned, finally forgives her unfaithful lover and withdraws obediently, in a feminine way. The Chorus of Women is a feminine disagreement on imposed visions of femininity. Shouted, chanted, sung and whispered disagreement for voices, solo and chorus. | ||||||||
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