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\u201c11 Solo Dances\u201d: Triptych – a blurb by Magdalena Dubrowska translated by Soren Gauger<\/p>\n

Dance. War. Suicide. The tragic fates of three people interwoven through blood ties, love, and alienation.
\nShe is Pola Nire\u0144ska, the famous Polish dancer and choreographer of Jewish descent.
\nHe is Jan Karski, a soldier, diplomat, and courier for the Underground State, who tried to alert the world to the Holocaust of the Jews during World War Two, to no avail.
\n\u201cI never danced so much as during the war,\u201d Pola recalled.
\n\u201cThe work was less thrilling than a carpenter\u2019s. It was almost utterly devoid of feats of bravery,\u201d Jan wrote of his work for the conspiracy.
\nThey were married in 1965, in Washington, where Pola ran a dance school, but after some time Jan forbade her from pursuing her passion. It was where she was to be a wife. And where, after years of struggling with depression and several suicide attempts, in 1992 she leapt from the eleventh-story window of a high-rise.
\nBut there is a third character in this painful triptych: Jan Karski\u2019s elder brother, Marian Kozielewski, soldier of Pi\u0142sudski\u2019s Legions, a prisoner of Auschwitz, who also ended up in Washington, having drifted about after the war. Consumed by melancholy and pining for his home country, in 1964 he threw himself from a window of the Corcoran art gallery, where he worked as a watchman.
\nIn the triptych composed of 11 Solo Dances, M. K. Gallery Walks, and M. K.\u2014An Oral History Archive, director Katarzyna Wi\u0144ska plucks out fragments of these three stories like bits of ancient vases. They cannot be pieced back into a whole, but the surviving shards are what is most valuable.
\nThus, we have an attempt to reconstruct Pola Nire\u0144ska\u2019s choreographies by contemporary dancer Justyna Bia\u0142ow\u0105s, or in fact, her interpretation based on free associations, as no record of these eleven dances has survived, except for their titles, and a virtual stroll through the streets of Washington to Corcoran gallery, where Kozielewski worked. Finally, we have three letters that Marian sent to Wi\u0144ska\u2019s father, read in part by actress Agnieszka \u017bulewska. In one of these letters, sent two weeks before his death, Kozielewski wrote:
\n\u201cThey say that I have grown odd. No doubt. But they do not perceive that, at my age, it is not enough to eat well, get drunk well, and the devil take the rest.\u201d<\/p>\n

Magdalena Dubrowska<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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