During his work at the Polish Lab Theatre Joseph Slowik took extensive notes. Here are 23 pages of these notes:
Detailed Notes on Apocalypsis (Cover and 7 pages), Impressions after Four Viewings of Apocalypsis (2 pages), Apocalypsis Text (5 pages), Rehearsal/Performance Interplay & Acropolis (4 pages), Personal and Group Rehearsal Sessions( 2 pages), Sessions in Theory with Ludwig Flaszen (3 pages).

A summary of Grotowski's life and work by a student, Ngigi Muya, at Kenyatte University

The Workcenter in Pontedera

The Workcenter in Pontedera, Italy is the place where Grotowski conducted his work during the last 13 years of his life. During this time he transmitted his work to Thomas Richards who, along with Mario Biagini and others continue his work here.
As of January 31, 2022 The workcenter is closing. Some programs will continue. See Thomas Richard's letter here.
A new workshop, "Threads of Creation" will begin in September 2022
Email the Workcenter: info@theworkcenter.org

Acrobatics of the Heart

Stephen Wangh is leading a Summer workshop in New York City July - August. The Workshop is titled 'Acrobatics of the Heart' and is described as 'Grotowski-based and Viewpoints-grounded training'. Other teachers include Wendell Beavers and Erica Fae. For information contact via this page.

The Grotowski Center in Wroclaw

The Centre of Studies on Jerzy Grotowski’s Work and of The Cultural and Theatrical Research is located in Grotowski's Laboratory Theatre in Wroclaw, Poland
Address: Rynek-Ratusz 27, 50-101 Wroclaw, Poland     http://www.grotowski-institute.art.     http://www.regulacontraregulam.eu    
Tel/fax: 0048/ 71/ 34 34 267; tel: +39 347 6068570
e-mail: office@grotcenter.art.pl   e-mail:giulia@regulacontraregulam.eu

Theatre Group Dzieci

. Dzieci (djyeh-chee) is an international experimental theatre ensemble dedicated to a search for the "sacred" through the medium of theatre. Dzieci uses techniques garnered from such theatre masters as Jerzy Grotowski, Eugenio Barba and Peter Brook, ritual forms derived from Native American and Eastern spiritual disciplines, and an ethic based securely in Humanistic Psychology.Web Site Introduction. Workshops    Intro Video   Facebook    Makbet October 2024   Dzieci Principles

Synaesthetic Theatre

Synaesthetic Theatre, based in Brooklyn, has been creating work since 1997, collaborating in various incarnations. The company and its productions benefit from an extended family of unique and multi-talented actors, musicians, designers, filmmakers and artists. They have hosted trainings led by Stephen Wangh, author of Acrobat of the Heart, who participated in workshops with Grotowski in 1967.

Las Teouleres

The British Grotowski Conference
"Grotowski: Theatre and Beyond"

June 11 - 14, 2009 at the University of Kent. This was probably the largest gathering of people who worked directly with Grotowski during his period as Director of theatrical works since the world renowned Laboratory Theatre disbanded in the early 1970s. And there will be many more people and groups that have been influenced by Grotowski's work in attendance. This is a major event by the three year British Grotowski project at the University of Kent. See the conference schedule for "Grotowski: Theatre and Beyond" Also see the links to the British Grotowski project below.

 Stephen Wangh worked with Grotowski in 1967 and has had a long teaching career at Emerson College in Boston and more recently at New York University. He has taught acting as a Visiting Professor at Naropa University in Boulder. He is presenting a three day workshop titled The Heart of Teaching," on the inner dynamics of teaching
This workshop is designed especially for teachers, especially teachers in the arts. More Info Here.

UNESCO's designated of 2009 as the "Year of Grotowski". This has provoked the planning of many events worldwide to celebrate the work of one of the most influential theatre directors of the 20th century.  The Polish Cultural Institute in New York in partnership with the Performance Studies Department at NYU is pleased to present:  Tracing Grotowski's Path:  Year of Grotowski in New York.  This exciting series of events, curated by Richard Schechner, will span over six months, encompass numerous New York City venues and comprise of film screenings, panel discussions, a photo exhibition, work demonstrations, workshops and more. 

Odin Teatret

Casa Talcahuano

Theatre troupe located in Buenos Aires based at TeatroIN in Villa Martelli   The group is the subject of a documentary "Cantame'' by Trevor Meier which has been submitted to the 2020 Santa Fe Film Festival. Alejandro Tomás Rodriguez was a significant member at that time and was leading many of the workshops seen in the documentary along with Catalina del Barrio, with the main members Huilen Fente and Nicolas Grigioni.

ParaTheatrical ReSearch

Theatre Group Dzieci

Dzieci (djyeh-chee) is an international experimental theatre ensemble dedicated to a search for the "sacred" through the medium of theatre. Dzieci uses techniques garnered from such theatre masters as Jerzy Grotowski, Eugenio Barba and Peter Brook, ritual forms derived from Native American and Eastern spiritual disciplines, and an ethic based securely in Humanistic Psychology. Based in NYC..  Interview in Theatre Magazine   A Human Sacrifice - Purification and the Art of Theatre Group Dzieci  See Entry in Grotowski Today above.

New World Performance Laboratory

Email and pictures fromTANTALOS, an Iranian experimental theatre group which rehearsed for a year before giving one performance of their performance of MEDEA in the desert. They are working on a new production. Statement by Ahmadreaza Nouri, Essay on the similarities between Rumi and Grotowski here.  Director of “TANTALOS” Experimental Theater Group Email: holy.actor@gmail.com

Centre Internationale de Recherche et de Formations Théâtrale   STAGES 2007
Upcoming workshops with Jim Slowiak and Jairo Cuesta, Katharina Seyferth, Maud Robart, Ang Gey Pin
Las Téoulères, 32250 Labarrère, France
Téléphone / Fax : +33 5 62 29 21 64  email: latou@free.fr

American Russian Theatre Ensemble Laboratory, Los Angeles ARTEL is a theater laboratory collective that creates and performs original work through investigation of cultures and histories.
ARTEL @ Art\Works Theatre and Studios, 6567-6585 Santa Monica Boulevard, Hollywood, CA 90038
tel. 323-871-1912   e-mail contact@artella.org

Agora Teatral is an Association founded in 2002 by the colombian actress and director Yamile Lanchas, that supports and promotes theatre research. Agora Teatral has a group online with more than 260 members, among them several theatre investigation centers. People interested in the work of Jerzy Grotowski, E. Barba Odin Teatret, Thomas Richards, Peter Brook, J.Cuesta and Jim Slowiak, Maud Robart, Yoshi Oida, Suzuki (and others). e-mail Yamile Lanchas: ylanchasvoz@yahoo.com  

Land of Ashes and Diamonds My Apprenticeship in Poland and 26 Letters from Jerzy Grotowski to Eugenio Barba, Eugenio Barba, Black Mountain Press, 1999 London
Barba met Grotowski in the early days in Opole and the Theatre of 13 Rows and was taken by his work. He documents his observations and impressions, what he did and what Grotowski did, what they talked about and how the most powerful theatrical work of the 1960s and early 1970s came to be.
Excerpt: "As soon as I arrived Grotowski handed me a pamphlet entitled Mozliwosc teatru (The Possibility of Theatre), fresh from the printers and with his name on the cover. One half of it consisted of texts by Grotowski and Flaszen, and the other of extracts by Polish critics about Teatr 13 Rzedow's productions. Flaszen and Grotowski set out the main points of their vision: that the specific characteristic of theatre consists in the live and immediate contact between actor and spectator; for each production a new way of organizing space has to be found, creating a unity and a physical osmosis which mingle actors and spectators, and favor contact; the performance originates from the contact between two ensembles, that of the actors and that of the spectators; the director has to 'direct' both these ensembles, consciously moulding their interaction in order to reach an archetype, and thereby the 'collective subconscious' of the two ensembles; these become aware of the archetype through a dialectic of apotheosis and derision which is applied to the text."
Excerpt: "To do 'poor theatre' you have to be rich. But Grotowski's wealth was not money. It was the creative resources of the ensemble: of the architect Gurawski, of Flaszen,the devil's advocate; of Krygier and Szajna, the creators of costumes which were bewitching emblems; of Grotowski himself who tore the classics to pieces in search of archetypes. And then there were the actors: Rena Mirecka, Zygmunt Molik, Zbigniew Cynkutis, Antoni Jaholkowski and Ryszard Cieslak. Their voices and gestures fill my senses when I visit them in my memory. The performance is something that happened between them and me and the consequences live on, are transmitted, become embodied in new life."

With Grotowski: Theatre is Just a Form, Peter Brook, Edited by: Georges Banu and Grzegorz Ziolkowski with Paul Allain, January 2009 From early on, Grotowski recognised the double nature of forms. They conceal, but they also protect the life that is within. For this reason, he set up his own barriers, so as to conceal and protect the work he was doing with his dedicated companions in their well-guarded private space. When he eliminated spectators from his theatre, and when he refused to allow writers to describe and evaluate his explorations, this was to prevent mere descriptions from replacing the vivid life of actions. And yet Grotowski, a great reader, an encyclopedic man of learning, knew well how essential in human life it is for understanding to be passed on, for there to be a chain of transmission. His quest was not only in a personal need to force the crust of the earth to open so as to reveal the blazing core hidden in its depths. It was also, in his own chosen field of theatre, to guide others, to help them discover in exact, detailed and repeatable ways what laws, what practices make this deep inner penetration possible. In this way, he could develop a craft that could be transmitted directly, from person to person, a craft that examined the relationship between impulse and action, and made their coming together possible. He carefully separated himself from his explorations, so that they could continue one day without him’. (an extract from the book)

"With Jerzy Grotowski", Nienadówka, 1980 - Jerzy Grotowski, a leading figure in the avant-garde theatre, invited a film crew to travel with him to the small village of Nienadowka, Poland in 1980. It was there that he, his mother, and his brother were hidden by a peasant family during the Nazi occupation. Returning for the first time, Grotowski hopes to rediscover the people, places, images, and sounds of his intensely lived childhood--memories that are indelibly linked to his art. Afterwards, in his aunt's apartment in the city of Rzeszow, he speaks directly to the camera about the foundations of his work. Narrated by Peter Brook. Directed by Jill Godmilow http://www.facets.org/

The director of the Polish Lab Theater talks with theater critic Margaret Croyden (translated by Jacques Chwat, theater director). Grotowski discusses the relationship between director and actor, a playwright's function, and the idea of his "poor" theater that renounces everything not essential to the work. 1970, 55 mins.
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