Michał Salwiński

Cross Attic / english / 60 min

The performance is part of an ongoing artistic journey that addresses the questions: What does it mean to be a human? By accompanying other beings: humans and non-humans, the journey is a way of sharing memories, dreams, and places of vulnerability and intimacy.
Growing up as a young boy, you are taught to put on masks and cover up your feelings. In society there is not enough attention and space to care for a boy's inner world, boys remain alone with their fears and anxieties. It is then, when boys find his need for inner life, he can find a company of stones and trees, in places such as attics, trees. This journey is of empathy and love to the boys inner world. The journey's door opened through a drawing of a walk from school in the boy’s childhood. A path led to a hill where the willow tree is growing, the place of the boy’s connection with nature. “What a mystery it is to be a boy, so close to death and birth, so uneducated and therefore so fresh and uncynical. We should end our disparagement of this boy, of our own immaturities, of our tardiness in growing up, of our sheer delight in beauty, of our love of the sun, of our vertical inclinations, and of our wanderings and great falls. Aphrodite loves Adonis loves so much she cries for him annually. We could speak words of encouragement to this boy where we find him - in our friends and students, in our institutions, in our own hearts. If we dont speak with him like that, he will be lost, and we will have lost with him all tenderness and grace.“
Thomas Moore “ Boyhood, growing up male: multicultural anthology”

Author of the story/ performer: Michał Salwiński (PL)
Set-design: Eszter Koncz
Dramaturgy consultation: En-Ping Yu
Devised with: Eszter Koncz (HU), En-Ping Yu (TW), Sai Psyn( JP)
Consultation: Cristina Maldonado( MX), Lukáš Jiřička (CZ)

Photo by: Micheal Lozano

Vstupenky ZDE

Supported by: DAMU - Faculty of Theater at the Academy of Performing Arts, Prague as part of MA Devised and Object Theater program.
In collaboration with Cross Attic.