Tadeusz Kantor (1915-1990), Polish visual artist and theatre director, was born on April 6, 1915.  He can be placed among a select group of the twentieth century’s most influential theatre practitioners. More information.

The breadth and diversity of his artistic endeavors align him with such diverse artists as, for example, Marcel Duchamp, Vsevelod Meyerhold, Oscar Schlemmer, Jackson Pollock, Jerzy Grotowski, Christo, Allan Kaprow, Robert Wilson, or Pina Bausch.  Kantor was positioned within the avant-garde movements represented by those artists.

Kobialka has published over 75 articles, essays and reviews on medieval, eighteenth-century and contemporary European theatre, as well as the theatre of Tadeusz Kantor. He will give a lunch talk entitled Of Memory and History: Tadeusz Kantor’s Theatre of Minima Moralias

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