Threesome/Trzy
Wojciech GrudzińskiSurrender yourself to another to disappear and exist even more.
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Surrender yourself to another to disappear and exist even more.
Next events
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Threesome/Trzy Theater05.02Wed 19:00Buy a ticket
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Threesome/Trzy Theater06.02Thu 19:00Buy a ticket
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Threesome/Trzy Theater07.02Fri 19:00Buy a ticket
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In Threesome, I share the dance space with the spectral lives of figures from the past. I grapple with their legends. Threesome is a phantasmagoric-choreographic cruising practice through the biographies of three legendary dancers: Stanisław Szymański, Wojciech Wiesiołłowski, and Gerard Wilk. All lived in post-war, communist Poland. Two eventually emigrated – one never decided to leave. How have their bodies been remembered? How did they become aware of and express their sensitivity upon appearing on stage? How can we today reclaim and embody these marginalized lives? How can we create an untamed, monstrous, illogical, corporeal archive of queer history without losing their unique character? Threesome aims to become an opportunity to remind and de-bronze their memories – to reflect on their worlds experienced without us. Threesome is a hazy posthumous ballet, a repressed legacy, a reenactment, a somatic plunder, and a transformation.
Threesome: Do not let the history of ballet and the political regime consume or even devour their biographies. Do not let what is national claim the oberek. Surrender to the other to disappear and exist even more.
"Most of them usually have a human form, but often also a bizarre trait they try to hide. Some divert attention from a hole in the back of their head with a beautiful face. Others cover animal paws with long hair. There are also those that constantly flutter their hands so we don't notice the webs between their fingers. They evoke both admiration and fear. They are believed to love lamenting their difference and simultaneously rejoicing in it."
— Peter Stoneley, A Queer History of the Ballet
Information
Concept and Choreography: Wojciech Grudziński
Artistic Collaboration: Igor Cardellini
Dramaturgical Support: Joanna Ostrowska, Klaudia Hartung-Wójciak
Text: Klaudia Hartung-Wójciak
Artistic Consultations: Miguel Angel Melgares
Video: Rafał Dominik
Costumes: Marta Szypulska
Lighting Design: Jacqueline Sobiszewski
Technical Manager: Thibault Villard
Music: Lubomir Grzelak, Wojtek Blecharz
Production: Wojciech Grudziński / Fundacja 910113
Co-production: Belluard Bollwerk, Nowy Teatr
Management, International relations: Alicja Berejowska / Perform for change
The performance was created in collaboration with: Cité Internationale des Arts, Frascati, Visegrad Artist Residency Program for Performing Arts, Centre national de la danse – Pantin.
The project is co-financed by the City of Warsaw.
Polish premiere: September 7, 2024
Tournee
June 26, 2024 – Centre national de la danse, Paris (France)
July 4, 2024 – 41st Belluard Bollwerk International Festival, Fribourg (Switzerland)
October 27, 2024 – Bliscy Nieznajomi/QueerFest, Poznań (Poland)
December 12–13, 2024 – Frascati, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
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