When you want to say something really important, you have to choose your words carefully. They are not present in this performance.
When spoken in excess, they can confuse, distract and introduce false leads. Jerzy Zoń, who weighs words precisely or omits them altogether in his stagings, has been convicted about that for a long time. This is also the case with The Ball. Inspired by Ettore Scola’s musical film Le Bal, which does without dialogues, the director tells the story in dance steps. Choreography on the dance floor and intertwining rhythms convey many stories in one night, with their chronology set by the music of bygone eras: from the swinging 1930s and the tango-loving 1950s till the jittery decades of the near present. Intimate and common stories, love stories, nostalgic stories, and those dissolving in the inevitable passing of time, which the show also tells through details, objects, costumes and appearances. Pulled into a dance by choreographer Erik Makohon, people and objects on stage create a reflection of the real world full of happiness and despair, life and death. Would there be words with which to tell it all in just over an hour?
Script, direction, music arrangements
Jerzy Zoń
Stage movement, choreography
Eryk Makohon
Set design
Marek Braun, Jerzy Zoń
Costumes
Jolanta Łagowska-Braun
Music and music arrangements
Aleksander Brzeziński
