Dzieci Theatre | Service + Art

Choral Eccentricity

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Dzieci Theatre | Service + Art

Choral Eccentricity

About

You have never seen (or heard) anything like Dzieci. Our tribe greets your guests, in character, as either medieval fools, traveling Gypsies, or Dustbowl orphans, and fills the room with song, joy, laughter, and perhaps a touch of audience participation. It's all about creating community, and Dzieci has mastered a most unique approach.

Theatre Group Dzieci, founded in 1997 is an international experimental ensemble dedicated to a search for the "sacred" through the medium of theatre. Utilizing techniques garnered from such theatre masters as Jerzy Grotowski and Eugenio Barba, ritual forms derived from Native American and Eastern spiritual disciplines, and an ethic based securely in Humanistic Psychology, Dzieci aims to create a theatre that is as equally engaged with personal transformation as it is with public presentation. The company carries their practice into hospitals and institutions that serve marginalized and disadvantaged communities, and also work with professionals and students in the fields of religion, psychology, health care, and theatre. Dzieci is featured in the anthology, "Working on the Inside: The Spiritual Life Through the Eyes of Actors", and profiled in "The Encyclopedia of Religion".

Music

Choral works from the 8th to the 16th century, such as:
‘Rex Caeli Domine’ (music & lyrics: from 'Musica enchiriadis', Anon. 9th Century)
‘Gloria sei dir gesungen' from BWV 140 'Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme' by Johann Sebastian Bach
'Du fonds de ma pensée' Music: Claude de Jeune, 1550; Lyrics: Psalm 130
‘Ich steh an deiner krippen hier’ from BWV 248 , the Christmas Oratorio (or 'Weihnachts-Oratorium') by Johann Sebastian Bach, words by Paul Gerhardt
‘Ich steh an deiner krippen hier’ from BWV 248 , the Christmas Oratorio (or 'Weihnachts-Oratorium') by Johann Sebastian Bach, words by Paul Gerhardt

Folksongs and chants from Eastern and Northern Europe

Sacred Harp Singing

Videos

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