Seyferth, Katharina

Practitioner

Katharina Seyferth is from Germany, where she was initially a film and television actress. Having trained in New York and worked with Ryszard Cieslak at the Manhattan Theatre Project, Seyferth participated in Jacek Zmyslowski’s Mountain Project organized in 1977 in Poland as part of the Laboratory Theatre’s paratheatrical activities. She was then invited to join the Laboratory Theatre’s international group and worked as a member of the leading team in Vigil as well as in the trans-cultural project Theatre of Sources directed by Jerzy Grotowski. She is the founder and director of the International Center for Theatrical Research and Training located in Las Téoulères near Bordeaux, France, where she conducts creative research, teaches, and hosts workshops led by international artists. For the 2009 Meetings with Remarkable Women Festival in Wroclaw, Poland, Seyferth performedRooms, a piece that she conceived and directed and which is based on her adaptation of Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein. Virginie Magnat

Images: Francesco Galli

Meetings poster asset — Brzezinka: An Introduction by Katharina Seyferth

Katharina Seyferth introduces the forest-based work space of Brzezinka, as she recounts her experience of Grotowski's post-theatrical research known as "Paratheatre" and "Theatre of Sources."

Meetings poster — Rooms (after Tender Buttons, by Gertrude Stein)

This piece, conceived and directed by Seyferth, is based on Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms.

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