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Poland
- International/Cultural relations
The Grotowski Institute is a cultural institution which combines artistic and scholarly research projects that correspond to the challenges laid down by Jerzy Grotowski's creative practice. The Grotowski Institute’s events programme involves a range of festivals and conferences, the deployment of the diverse educational programme and its varied publishing enterprises in both Polish and English.
The Grotowski Institute’s activities include undertaking major international theatre projects such as the European Theatre Award, the international theatre festival ‘World as a Place of Truth’ (with the next instalment planned for 2012) and co-producing works by renowned theatre directors such as, most recently, Peter Brook’s 11 & 12, created in collaboration with the Barbican Center (London) and the Bouffes du Nord Theatre (Paris). The Institute also runs the Masters in Residence programme (participating directors in 2010 will be Eugenio Barba and Anatoly Vasiliev), Eastern Line projects (that aim to support Central European independent theatre) and educational programmes (International Stagiaires Programme and the meetings of theatre schools called ‘Making Tomorrow’s Theatre’). The promotional activities of the Institute include multi-dimensional support for independent theatre initiatives in the form of long-term artistic research projects, such as those conducted by Maisternia Pisni (Lviv), Teatro La Madrugada (Milan), Bred in the Bone (London), Laboratorio Permanente di Ricerca Sull’Arte dell’Attore (Torino), Teatr ZAR (Wroc?aw), Spitfire Company (Prague) and other artists. The Institute supports artists from a younger generation who did not work with Jerzy Grotowski directly but for whom his work is an important point of reference. The publishing activity contributes to the Institute’s operations in the artistic and educational fields and refers to the archive that in fact drives and shapes its activity.