Instytut im. Jerzego Grotowskiego
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Collaboration

The Grotowski Centre carried out a number of projects in collaboration with other publishers. From 2004–2005, this resulted in the following publications:

Cover of the book "The Shifting Point"Peter Brook: The Shifting Point, edited and translated by Ewa Guderian-Czaplinska and Grzegorz Ziolkowski (November 2004); in collaboration with Poznanskie Studia Polonistyczne





Cover of the magazine "Konteksty. Polska Sztuka Ludowa"The special issues of the journal Konteksty. Polska Sztuka Ludowa (2, 2005), featuring a series of materials dedicated to the life and teachings of George I. Gurdjieff, edited by Grzegorz Ziolkowski in consultation with Tilo Ulbricht; in collaboration with James Moor (December 2005)




Cover of the book "Essere un uomo totale"Essere un uomo totale. Autori polacchi su Grotowski – l’ultimo decennio [To Be a Whole Man. Polish authors on Grotowski – the last decade], edited by Janusz Degler and Grzegorz Ziolkowski in Poland, and Renata Molinari and Marina Fabbri in Italy (December 2005); in collaboration with Il Mutamento Zona Castalia and Titivillus Edizioni



The Grotowski Institute has continued with numerous international collaborations:

In 2008 a special edition of the quarterly publication Performance Research issued, entitled On Performatics (13:1), edited by Richard Gough and Grzegorz Ziolkowski. The journal, published by the Centre for Performance Research in Wales (www.thecpr.org.uk ), is the outcome of the conference Performance Studies: and Beyond, organised at the Grotowski Centre in December 2006.

In 2008 the Grotowski Institute, in collaboration with the British Grotowski Project (www.britishgrotowski.co.uk ), published an English version of the book by Peter Brook: Teatr jest tylko forma. O Jerzym Grotowskim (edited by Georges Banu and Grzegorz Ziolkowski, Wroclaw 2007) – With Grotowski. Theatre is Just a Form (edited by Georges Banu and Grzegorz Ziolkowski with Paul Allain).

Together with the Grotowski Institute, Black Mountain Press, run by the Centre for Performance Research, is currently preparing the series Polish Theatre: Tradition of Transformation edited by Grzegorz Ziolkowski and realised with support from Instytut Ksiazki (the Book Institute) (www.instytutksiazki.pl ). The purpose of the project, is the dissemination of Polish thinking on theatre abroad.

The series comprises the following publications:

  • Juliusz Osterwa: Through Theatre – Beyond Theatre, edited by Ireneusz Guszpit, translated from Polish by Paul Vickers, 2010
  • To Be a Whole Man: Polish Authors on Grotowski, edited by Grzegorz Ziolkowski, translated from Polish by Adela Karsznia and Duncan Jamieson, 2010
  • Leszek Kolankiewicz: Big Small Vehicle, translated from Polish by Andrzej Wojtasik