Art in adversity: Tadeusz Kantor's fighting spirit

Our first tailor-made podcast episode Art in adversity:
Tadeusz Kantor's fighting spirit delves into the work of
Polish artist and theatre maker Tadeusz Kantor, whose
work inspired the likes of Joseph Beuys (whom Kantor
worked closely with), choreographer Pina Bausch and
theatre company Complicité, to name a few.


Kantor made work under extraordinarily challenging times. Under
the Nazi occupation of Poland, he founded the Independent
Underground Theatre, and later carried on creating work
throughout Poland’s communist regime. Dash Arts
Artistic Director Josephine
Burton investigates how he navigated the politics
and continued to create, and what we can take from Kantor during
our own challenging times.


We speak to Natalia Zarzecka, Director
of Cricoteka (Centre for Documentation of
the Art of Tadeusz Kantor) in Krakow,
Puppeteer Nenagh Watson, filmmaker
Duncan Ward and producer and
director David Gothard, all of whom worked
with Kantor, as well as Dr Mischa
Twitchin, who teaches Polish Theatre at Goldsmiths
University.


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To see Duncan's films of Kantor and clips to videos of Kantor's
work, please head to our website at
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