Tadeusz Kantor Today

Katarzyna Fazan is Assistant Professor at the Jagiellonian University and the L. Solski State Drama School in Krakow.Anna R. Burzyńska, PhD, is a lecturer in Theatre Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Marta Bryś is a postgraduate in Theatre Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow.

• Contents: Katarzyna Fazan: Tadeusz Kantor - Yesterday and Today – Renato Palazzi: Kantor’s Greatness: An Inconvenient Heritage – Loriano Della Rocca: Tadeusz Kantor, Krakow, 8th December 1990 - 8th December 2010 – Krzysztof Miklaszewski: The Actor in Kantor’s Theatre: A Visionary’s Questions, a Practitioner’s Answers and a Contemporary Post Script – Andrzej Wełmiński: Function and Significance of the Theatre Company in the Development of Cricot 2 Productions – Lech Stangret: The Role of Drawing in the Creation of Tadeusz Kantor’s Self-mythology – Dominika Łarionow: Tadeusz Kantor’s Mannequin and Edward G. Craig’s Über-Marionette: An Outline of an Idea – Anna R. Burzyńska: Returns of the Rhinoceros – Katarzyna Osińska: Don Quixote according to Kantor: Between Reality and Fiction – Małgorzata Paluch-Cybulska: Tadeusz Kantor: ... Velázquez’s Infantas as Sacred Relics or Madonnas – Josep Maria de Sagarra Àngel: Tadeusz Kantor’s Theatre of Emotions: Apropos the Spanish Reception of the Artist – Amos Fergombe: The Door, Frame or Transcendental Threshold in the Work of Tadeusz Kantor – Klaudiusz Święcicki: Anthropology of History and Memory in the Theatrical Work of Tadeusz Kantor – Grzegorz Niziołek: Anxiety and What Next … – Wojciech Owczarski: The Theatre of Dreams in The Theatre of Death – Cécile Coutin: La Machine de l’Amour et de la Mort de Tadeusz Kantor – Mateusz Chaberski: What Can Tadeusz Słobodzianek’s Our Class Tell Us about The Dead Class? The Political Dimension of Memory in the Work of Tadeusz Kantor – Marek Pieniążek: Kantor - Reactivating One’s Own Reality: Late Productions by Cricot 2 – Michal Kobialka: Epilogue. Tadeusz Kantor’s Theatre of Personal Confessions: Notes on Late Style – Jan Kłossowicz: The Anatomy Lesson: Kantor’s Plots – Paweł Stangret: Reading Tadeusz Kantor 2 – Katarzyna Tokarska-Stangret: «Non omnis moriar» of the Theatre Artist – Jean-Pierre Thibaudat: Autour de la photographie de Wielopole – Anna Halczak: CRICOTEKA - «The Necessity of Transmission» – Marie-Thérèse Vido-Rzewuska: Kantor, Schulz, Malczewski, Wyspiański: Some Paradoxes – Andrzej Turowski: Dazzling Afterimages – Jaromir Jedliński: Kantor and Beuys: Parallel Processes? – Rafał Solewski: Heritage and Identity in Tadeusz Kantor’s Œuvre and Postmodernism – Zbigniew Osiński: Tadeusz Kantor – Jerzy Grotowski: Two Concepts of Theatre and Art – Ruggero Bianchi: Minor Notes on a Borderline Artist – Klaus Dermutz: «The Horror of War and/of The World, with the Circus Mixed.» Reflections by Anselm Kiefer on Tadeusz Kantor’s Theatre – Katarzyna Fazan: Shadows of the Polish Odysseus: Wyspiański - Kantor – Grzegorzewski – Uta Schorlemmer: Present Absence in Tadeusz Kantor’s and Christoph Schlingensief’s Late Performances.