Carpe Diem

• idea and choreography: Ewa Wycichowska
• music: Zbigniew Górny, Marcin Górny
• scenography: Bohdan Cieślak
• costumes and photos: Ewa Łowżył
• vocal workshop: Olga Szwajgier
• duration: 75 minutes
• premiere: 02.03.2007. (Teatr Wielki in Poznań)

The play is an outcome of inspirations embedded in the minds of its creators, including the dancers. Its final shape is a result of a process, which is a synthesis of quests and not a model of implementation of various separate tasks – commissions. The Carpe diem creators are after a moment, irreproducible and uncreatable time. A moment, without which there is no future and out of which future is born. 

The authors state:
"We gave a moment, time between the past and the future, to the children and poets. We no longer can feel pure rapture over things we are still experiencing. We can no longer feel things with all our souls and bodies, to absorb colors, tastes, sounds, movements. We canceled the present, harking back only to what used to be and planning the future. Our play was born out of the yearning for what it all used to be like. We wish to freeze the elusiveness of a meeting of creators and spectators, to get to know our carpe diem and to share it in such a way so as not to lose any moment. This is what was behind the work – mutual inspirations enticed by thoughts, music, movement, voices and sounds, colors and shapes. We live among the same things and problems, but each of us experiences a different moment. Yet, this otherness does not rule out a community, a dialogue and a harmony, a consent for carpe diem, without which no garden of the future can grow. The play is made up of three parts, moments, details, which create our lives very precisely, like a factory machine. With the audience, by capturing a day, we seek to reject copies and find the originals."