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Julidans: The Polish Project

Maria Magdalena Kozłowska (PL/NL) / Frascati Producties
Fri 4 Jul ’25 - Mon 7 Jul ’25
Where labour sings and existence creaks.
Fri 4 Jul ’25
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Mon 7 Jul ’25

In The Polish Project, Maria Magdalena Kozłowska weaves a musical and visual universe where physical labour and artistic expression merge. It’s a world where scaffolding becomes a stage, a pallet truck turns into an instrument, and a worker’s story transforms into a libretto — all accompanied by live jazz. The Polish Project is the blossom of a long artistic research process.

Born from conversations with Polish migrant workers, the result is a raw, lyrical performance full of rhythm, breath, and unfiltered honesty. Their voices — recorded, sung, whispered — resonate between scaffolding tubes, bodies, and speakers. The boundaries between labour and art, between documentation and imagination, dissolve.

Using opera, choreography, and video, Maria Magdalena explores the fragile balance between identity, embodiment, and economic reality. The performance is an ode to invisible labour, to lost ideals, and to the resilience of people who keep building — not only houses, but themselves. In this universe, the ethos of art and the ethos of labour are inseparable: both demand commitment, push the body to its limits, and carry the risk of exhaustion — or even collapse. Working without protection can kill — just like continuing to dance while falling. Art and labour here are not only identities, but markers of class, always inches away from the edge.

The Polish Project will have its world premiere at Julidans 2025.

  • Language: Polish, with English subtitles
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About Maria Magdalena Kozłowska

In her work, director, singer, and performer Maria Magdalena Kozłowska (PL/NL) explores the connecting and revolutionary potential of the human voice. With classical singing, music, video, visual art, and live performance, she creates performances and interventions that bridge the gap between individual and society, tradition and transition, past, present, and future.

Previously at Frascati Producties, she created COMMUNE (2021), Dead Skin (2022), and The Polish Project part 1 (2024). At Julidans 2025, her latest work will have its world premiere: The Polish Project. 

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