The Polish Project
In The Polish Project creëert Maria Magdalena Kozłowska een muzikaal en visueel universum waarin fysieke arbeid en artistieke expressie samensmelten. Het is een wereld waarin een steiger een podium wordt, een vorkheftruck een instrument, en een arbeidersverhaal een libretto — alles begeleid door live gespeelde jazz. The Polish Project is de bloei van een jarenlang artistiek onderzoeksproces.
Festival Julidans
Programmaonderdeel Julidans On Stage
Wereldpremière
Locatie Frascati
Zaal Frascati 4
Duur nnb
Taal Pools
Boventiteling Engels
The Polish Project
Born from conversations with Polish migrant workers, the result is a raw, lyrical performance full of rhythm, breath, and unfiltered honesty. Their voices — recorded, sung, whispered — resonate between scaffolding tubes, bodies, and speakers. The boundaries between labour and art, between documentation and imagination, dissolve.
Using opera, choreography, and video, Kozłowska explores the fragile balance between identity, embodiment, and economic reality. The performance is an ode to invisible labour, to lost ideals, and to the resilience of people who keep building — not only houses, but themselves.
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In this universe, the ethos of art and the ethos of labour are inseparable: both demand commitment, push the body to its limits, and carry the risk of exhaustion — or even collapse. Working without protection can kill — just like continuing to dance while falling. Art and labour here are not only identities, but markers of class, always inches away from the edge.
The Polish Project will have its world premiere at Julidans 2025.
More about Maria Magdalena Kozłowska
Maria Magdalena Kozłowska (PL/NL) studied philosophy in Warsaw and graduated from DAS Theatre (AHK) in 2020. Her work explores the human voice as an intimate and political medium—connecting personal memory, ritual, identity and resistance. She has presented work at venues such as the Venice Biennale, KW Berlin, Frascati, Gessnerallee and Belluard Bollwerk Festival. Since 2021, she has been an associate artist at Frascati Productions, creating COMMUNE and Dead Skin. In 2023, she co-created an adaptation of Jérôme Bel for the Holland Festival with Pankaj Tiwari.
Credits
concept, direction, and performance Maria Magdalena Kozłowska
performance, scenography, and costume design Jan Tomza-Osiecki
performance Maja Grzeczka
performance, and choreography Wojciech Grudziński
performance, and music Björk Semey and Marcus Wärnheim
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dramaturgic advice Renee Copraij
final director Miguel Melgares
producer Frascati Producties
coproduction Agora Now
with support by AFK, Ministerie van OCW, Ammodo
