09 — 12.05
A thick, ultramarine blue carpet covers the entire space. Dionne Warwick sings What the World Needs Now on repeat. Dressed in blue, Ewa Dziarnowska and Leah Marojević dance in the middle of the space, ebbing and flowing. Generous and attentive, they play with attraction, repetition, form, and feeling. It is a choreographic exploration of physical desire and longing, hope and loss. They challenge each other, dancing solo and in duet, sometimes in sync. They make contact with each other, and occasionally with the audience. Because the dancers come so close, it breaks the viewer's passivity. Watching becomes moving, and moving becomes a form of being seen, a reciprocity that undermines classical performance.
Dziarnowska sees improvisation and embodied knowledge as counterparts to our need for rationality and linearity. She develops projects that are equal parts installation and performance, replacing the consuming gaze with a transformative encounter. Dance becomes a space where time is suspended, and complexity is given a place, a connecting practice through an erotic presence. This resting, patience is a celebration of desire and sensuality, with exceptional virtuosity and emotional build-up, showing how dance can save us in dark times.
"At once disconnected from the promise of sex and the fear of insecurity, sensuality is not only celebrated through dance and the dancers’ bodies. It also manifests in the generous and open pleasure between dancer and viewer that is created through a mutual awareness of each other's presence. (...) Exactly what the world needs at the moment.", Wendy Lubberding, 2024, Theaterkrant
Witnessing the full experience is recommended, but you can freely leave and re-enter if necessary.
09.05
- 19:00 → 22:00
- + aftertalk moderated by Andrea Rodrigo (EN)
10.05
- 18:00 → 21:00
11.05
- 19:00 → 22:00
12.05
- 19:00 → 22:00
Presentation: Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Bodeek
By: Ewa Dziarnowska | With: Leah Marojević | Sound: Krzysztof Bagiński | Light: Jacqueline Sobiszewski | Costumes and styling: Nico Navarro Rueda, Franziska Acksel | Dramaturgical support: Jette Büchsenschütz | Artistic dialogue: Suvi Kemppainen | Photos: Spyros Rennt | Video documentation: Margarita Maximova
Production: Ewa Dziarnowska | Coproduction: Sophiensæle, Tanztage Berlin (funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion and the Capital Cultural Fund HKF)
With the support of Tanzfabrik Berlin, Theaterhaus Berlin Mitte | Thanks to Maciej Sado
Performances in Brussels with the support of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, co-financed by the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and the Polish Institute Brussels
