Hate Haus
choreography: Ramona Nagabczyńska
Duration: 60 minutes
Tickets: 40 / 50 zł
Hate Haus is a performance that takes up the theme of functioning in a collective. Both capitalist criticism and opposition to the old patriarchal models of cultural production based on the absolute power of the artist-guru (especially strongly promoted by the Polish theatre tradition) have led artistic circles to glorify collective work. Its appeal becomes all the stronger the more compromised the hierarchy, around which – often unjustifiably – many adjacent values such as violence, absolutism and disrespect for personal boundaries have grown.
However, both the members of the Hertz Haus ensemble and choreographer Ramona Nagabczyńska (who has been collectively leading the organisation Centrum w Ruchu for thirteen years) have come to the conclusion, based on their own experiences, that collective work solves some problems, but other problems grow in their place. Collective co-creation is always experimental, because we do not have ready-made models like work based on a hierarchical system. Each collective develops its own system of functioning, which, in addition, must be able to adapt to the constantly changing conditions, goals and needs of the members. The work undertaken by the collective is always at the same time work for a specific project and work for the self-determination of the collective.
What is common to collective building and choreographic work is processuality. Both the collective and the choreographic process seem to live a life of their own, to take on a causality of their own that members and co-creators need to listen to and support.
Ramona Nagabczyńska is interested in bringing to the surface the particular voice of the Hertz Haus collective. Not just the voices of the individual members of the group, but the voice of the creation they have given life to. A voice that is more or less than the sum of individual voices. This will not be a performance about collectives as such, but about the collective that is Hertz Haus. We will draw on the experiences of the group for which we will find choreographic equivalents. We will ask ourselves questions that will help us to better understand the nature of the creation that Hertz Haus co-creates. Does every voice really have equal weight? Can there be a terror of collectivity? Where do the boundaries of compromise lie? What is the relationship between personal responsibility and collective responsibility? What is the motivation for co-creating a collective?
The artists decided on the title Hate Haus as a self-deprecating joke, because the name Hertz Haus (hertz, as heart) does not always correspond to the ambivalence of their feelings.
Team
Choreography: Ramona Nagabczyńska
Performance: Magdalena Kowala, Natalia Murawska, Joanna Woźna, Anna Zglenicka
Music: Qba Janicki
Lights direction: Jędrzej Jęcikowski
Production: Stowarzyszenie Córy Kultury
Producer: Agnieszka Czichy
Production cooperation: Centrum w Ruchu, Fundacja Burdąg, Gdański Teatr Szekspirowski, Aste
Bios
Hertz Haus is a collective founded in 2018 by dancers and choreographers Magdalena Kowala, Natalia Murawska, Joanna Woźna and Anna Zglenicka. The artists create their own aesthetics using contemporary dance, physical dance, as well as improvisation and performance activities and thus aim to create their own movement language. In 2019, the artists founded the association Córy Kultury, whose mission is to bring dance thought to a wide range of audiences, to create a repertoire and an artistic and educational programme.
Ramona Nagabczyńska is a dancer and choreographer. She received her artistic education at the Warsaw Ballet High School, the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt and the London Contemporary Dance School in London, and her theoretical education at the SWPS University and the University of Warsaw. She works in Poland and abroad.
Her choreographic works include: ‘New (Dis)Order’ (2012) – selected for Aerowaves in 2014, ‘Re//accumulation’ (2012), ‘The Way Things Dinge’ (2014), ‘pURe’ (2015), ‘MORE’ (2017), “Networking” (2018/19), ‘Body Parts’ (2019) – also selected for Aerowaves, ‘Silenzio!’ (2021), ‘Le Jeu de Massacre’ (2021)- together with Barbara Kinga Majewska, “Blogo” (2022), ‘Anonymous Performers’ (2024) and ‘Hate Haus’ (2024) – together with the Hertz Haus collective.
From 2015 to 2019 she was an artist of the international performing arts network apap Network. In 2021 she won the prize for directing the performance ‘Silenzio!’ at the Divine Comedy Festival.
She is one of the co-founders of the collective Centrum w Ruchu.
Co-financing
The event is co-financed by the City of Warsaw as part of the project Komuna Warszawa – Social Institution of Culture.
