Włodzimierz Staniewski

Włodzimierz Staniewski (born in 1950 in Bardo, Poland) is a Polish theatre and film director, founder and director of the Gardzienice Centre for Theatre Practices. He is the author of international programmes, actor training, essays, and plays.

In 1968, Staniewski was a student in Polish philology at the Jagiellonian University . In 1969, he became a student of Krzysztof Jasiński's Acting Studio at the STU Theater , where classes were conducted by graduates of the State Theater School in Krakow.

He worked with Jerzy Grotowski , the founder of the Laboratory Theater, in  Wrocław.  They  moved away from conventional theater activities and preparing subsequent performances in favor of intensive performative and anthropological research.  He left in 1975 and moved to Lublin.  He started the "Gardzienice" Theater Association.

Staniewski's acting method, known as theater ecology is seen as significant.  As a director and author, he lectured and conducted master classes in many countries.

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