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Independent dance project carried out by French choreographer Claude Bardouil in collaboration with Magdalena Popławska. While transgressing borders between theatre and dance, the artists confront a punk rock legend, Sid Vicious, a musician who died from overdose of drugs, suspected of murdering his fiancée, Nancy Spungen. This is the next step of the Nowy Teatr on the way to explore the opportunities to shape artistic statement bordering on the two usually separated art disciplines: theatre and dance, an attempt to create a new actor, capable of non-traditional and interdisciplinary forms of expression.
The artists met each other during the preparations for the performance titled “Koniec" (“the End”) directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski, which opens up with the scene of Magdalena Popławska’s hypnotic dance.

Claude Bardouil’s performance could well be titled “Being Nancy Spungen”. It is she, the anti-heroine, girl who sought a method to transgress herself, who becomes the central focus of reflection. She looks determined by what Patti Smith once said: “What better can you do in life than go to bed with a rock star if you come from Midwest?”
Nancy, embroiled in romance with Sid Vicious, perfectly follows a chain of action inherent in the model: prostitution – drugs/violence – access to stars. She becomes the greatest groupie and the biggest expert in punk rock, living the adventure of her life. She remains an anti-heroine, though, whereas no one would probably remember her, had it not been for her death – also a model one, well embedded in the pattern.
Claude Bardouil’s show is an attempt to once again live this scenario, facing the spirit of the times and checking its power today. After “Factory 2” by Krystian Lupa this is another take on penetrating the aura of the U.S. in its mythical years of the 70s. This time it’s done through the life, as short as intense, of the individual who lived a mere twenty years.
Piotr Gruszczyński