Nucirzeczka

Immersed in the sounds of composers such as Grażyna Bacewicz, Philip Glass and Henry Mancini, we will search for our own breath, dive into the nooks of our imagination and, carried by the waves of music, allow our bodies — both small and large — to gently drift.

The human body is about 70% water, and a newborn’s body even up to 80%. We will listen to these rivers in our bodies, let them wash out, bathe, pour here and there... Who knows, maybe along the way we will encounter other rivers and streams, and as a result try to flow as one current?

Nucirzeczka is a performative action combining live music and movement. Together with the artists, participants will stimulate their senses, bodies and imagination. We invite you to come in clothing that does not restrict movement. Splash!

Before and after the concerts, parents and caregivers with children are invited to treats in our café. The café is open from 9:00 to 14:00.

Performers:

• Marta Piórkowska — violin
• Krzysztof Kozłowski — piano
• Aleksandra Bożek-Muszyńska — choreography and performance
• Anna Szawiel — performance

Aleksandra Bożek-Muszyńska | olabomu.com | holobiont.pl

An improviser, choreographer and performer. She is the creator of a dozen original choreographies, and her works have been presented, among others, in Berlin, Budapest, Philadelphia, New York, Warsaw and Vienna. In 2017, together with Hanna Bylka-Kanecka, she founded the Holobiont collective, whose aim is interdisciplinary multi-generational projects. One of her recent choreographies, 'Goździk w pustej muszli', was distinguished as Best Dance Performance in the 2021/22 season by the magazine Teatr. In 2022 she created choreography for the play 'Rodzina', a cooperation between TR and Teatr 21. In her works she explores the boundaries between simplicity and naivety, presentation and facilitation, as well as finding patterns and breaking them. A visual aspect and a peculiar sense of humour are characteristic of her works. Her body reacts very well when it can do what it likes.

About the series:

ĄsąBąble are performative concerts with new music for families with children aged 0–7. Each is based on an original script in which listening to music, interactive games and educational values are equally important. In a child-friendly space you can listen to music by leading contemporary composers, adapted in version and proportion for a small ear. The theatrical format of the concerts supports focus and allows one to be enchanted by sounds, and the invitation to joint improvisations releases the natural need for expression of little ones. Following Janusz Korczak’s words 'There are no children, there are people', all participants are treated with respect and take part in the course of the event. The series presents exclusively 20th and 21st century music. A permanent element is the presentation of a recording of a symphonic piece or from the sound design and electronics stream.

Although each edition of ĄsąBąble takes musical fabric as its starting point, it also abounds in non-musical contexts close to Hashtag Ensemble’s practice: literary, visual, social. The events are interdisciplinary: invited artists who have long worked close to children’s imagination also take part: dancers, performers, illustrators and writers. Theatre is a natural field of activity for new music, so the educational character of the ĄsąBąble series also includes actors’ training for the musicians.

The curator and host of the series is Anna Szawiel — an actress and voice artist who specializes in interdisciplinary cultural and educational events. She likes to work on boundaries: between concert and performance, education and play, physicality and abstraction, always connected with children’s imagination. The concert programmes are co-created by musicians of Hashtag Ensemble.

The ĄsąBąble project creatively develops the concept of the 'Smykowizje' series by the 'Muzyka jest dla wszystkich' foundation, within which, from 2016 to 2022, Hashtag Ensemble and Anna Szawiel performed together in over 130 concerts and mini-performances, seeking the most interesting forms of presenting new music. The author of the Smykowizji concept and curator was Anna Kierkosz. It was the first series of events in Poland addressed to the very youngest, during which contemporary music played the main role.