FOCUS POLAND: WELCOME 
When: 19 October 2019, 20:00 - 20:40
Where: "Boris Hristov" House of Culture - Plovdiv
Duration: 40 minutes
Video, objects, sound, movement: Aurora Lubos
Performance: Aurora Lubos
Music: Alex Catona
Aurora Lubos reaches out to the Western people for comparison that many have refused. In Poland, her home country, the refugees topic has led to quarrels and slammed doors. What would a satiated, self-satisfied European person feel towards the outsiders, strangers, fighters for survival? Are they welcome?
The choreographer takes this question to the Polish society and in a wider European context. Her powerful solo is a plea for humanity and a protest against ignorance. It is a call to the one who lives in safety but is reluctant to take in others— those who escape war, conflict, oppression, death, hunger.
„The piece was my commentary on immigrants dying in the sea, a transposition of those images onto our Polish, tangible reality.“ – Aurora Lubos
One of the elements of the show is the documentation of the performance From the Water which took place on a beach in Sopot in mid-October 2015, on the Solidarity with Refugees Day.
REVIEWS
‘When Aurora Lubos puts on the hands of a woman from the audience a rag doll that imitates a human body, I have no doubt what I am watching – it is a pietà, a wail of the Western world over those who did not survive a sea journey. […] It was a beautiful gesture. What remains in me the most is humanism that overflows this performance – a deeply human attitude that makes us respect every life.“ – Izabela Szymańska
AURORA LUBOS
Aurora Lubos (1977) is an independent dancer associated with the Polish and British contemporary dance scene. She has created several outspoken solo pieces, covering such topics as domestic violence, among others. For 15 years, she was an actor with the Vincent Dance Theatre. She is the author of solos (Zanzibar; Unfinished; Knife, Horse and Stairs; Acts; Thou Shalt Not); installations/performances (No. 1; Four Corners; Act for Two – Leftovers; Without Home; Out of Water) and animations (Winter 2010 cycle).
Picture © Maciej Sierpien
Source: https://plovdiv2019.eu