MY DISCOVERY AT THE GOLDSMITH ARCHIVES

After browsing through the archive for a few hours i found something that immediately attracted me. It was dark, surreal and not your regular theater art.

TEATR NOWY - END OF EUROPE

Teatr  Nowy is a polish production created by Janus Wisniewski in 1983 the show was a surrealist view of the political and social climate of eastern Europe leading up to, and after the two world wars. 

Being a polish company it was very hard to find anything on the show or the company in the English language aside from the images we found in the lift archive. 

In the performance they used things like; 

• Masks 
• Face paint 
• Blood 
• Lighting 
• Rasa (they often just made expressions with no words, conveying meaning through expression) 
• Costumes 
• Fear

In the Lift archive is at next to Dasha who's findings were a theater group called La gaia scienza,  this theater group although not doing conventional theater shows like the company i had found, was very similar in style and we decided to group together for the final performance group, also including Talia, Soriyah and Leanne who did not visit the archives.



La gaia scienza



La gaia scienza is a production company that uses geometery and 

shapes in their work and they also have a heavy focus on site specific work.

Complicite

After researching Teatr Nowy and La Gaia Scienza Talia linked in her research from complicite , a British Theatre Company. Complicite was founded in 1983, and was originally called Theatre de Complicite. They use technology as a focal point, through projection and cameras they express themselves using movement in relation to objects and light, and there is a strong surrealism aspect to the company which links in with mine and Dasha's artists.