Words on Water’s Edge. A Tale Between Cultures

A tale about two people in love in the 1970s, trying to connect the world of two distinct and mutually fascinating cultures: Polish and Turkish. The performance is an artistic collage of authentic memories, poetry, music and the art of ebru. Created live, the collage changes with every show by using the traditional forms of Turkish oral tradition interacting with images painted on water. To quote storyteller Agnieszka Ayşen, “Images recalled from childhood oblivion are like shadows of colourful smudges  falling upon water.” Słowa and brzegiem wody contains a pinch of Polish romanticism and Turkish melancholy, poems by renowned Turkish poets: the medieval mystic Yunus Emre and twentieth-century activist Nâzım Hikmet, as well as an unknown contemporary poetess.