Fierce Festival

14 — 18 October

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SCHEDULE:
  • Wheelchair Accessible Visual
  • Wheelchair Accessible Visual

DURATION:

3 hours

VENUE:

Eastside Projects
86 Heath Mill Ln, Deritend, Birmingham B9 4AR

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This resting, patience

Ewa Dziarnowska

(Berlin)

UK Premiere 18+

Part ghostly repository of unconsumed sensuality, an installative kinetic fadeout, part somatic (strip)tease, This resting, patience addresses attraction, voluntary objectification, proximity and the aesthetics of bareness. Employing an experimental format, it upsets the passivity of installation and the time-delineation and dramaturgical resolution of performance and steps away from the tradition of viewing dance as an alienated spectacle to instead emphasize its immanent sociability. In its devotion to the body, This resting, patience proposes sensuousness and dancing as timeless and democratically available technologies of undoing the world and projecting the continuous present into a future that lasts, quintessentially tender, infatuated, attentive.

FIERCE SAYS

“In many ways, this resting, patience represents my platonic ideal for performance. Ewa Dziarnowska and her collaborators have created a world with an irresistible gravitational pull towards sensuality, pleasure, and, yes, dance. Don’t be afraid of the three hours: you’ll want to hold onto this feeling forever.”

“This resting, patience is one of those rare shows that make you feel like the first time you’re seeing dance… [it] brushes off all memories and brings back the old-forgotten feeling of falling in love.” Springback Magazine

Part ghostly repository of unconsumed sensuality, an installative kinetic fadeout, part somatic (strip)tease, This resting, patience addresses attraction, voluntary objectification, proximity and the aesthetics of bareness. Employing an experimental format, it upsets the passivity of installation and the time-delineation and dramaturgical resolution of performance and steps away from the tradition of viewing dance as an alienated spectacle to instead emphasize its immanent sociability. In its devotion to the body, This resting, patience proposes sensuousness and dancing as timeless and democratically available technologies of undoing the world and projecting the continuous present into a future that lasts, quintessentially tender, infatuated, attentive.

FIERCE SAYS

“In many ways, this resting, patience represents my platonic ideal for performance. Ewa Dziarnowska and her collaborators have created a world with an irresistible gravitational pull towards sensuality, pleasure, and, yes, dance. Don’t be afraid of the three hours: you’ll want to hold onto this feeling forever.”

artist bio

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Ewa Dziarnowska is a dancer and choreographer based in Berlin, working across performance, collaboration and research. Her recent projects — This resting, patience, https://4677684728466.com and A Room With a Better View (Display Gallery x Berlin Art Week) — reflect her sustained inquiry into improvisation as both method and philosophy. Through attention to sensation, rhythm and relation, she investigates how movement can generate knowledge and resist the pressures of coherence and productivity. Her practice unfolds in real time, balancing precision and spontaneity while questioning the social and aesthetic frameworks through which dance is produced, witnessed and circulated.

CREDITS

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By: Ewa Dziarnowska
With: Leah Marojević
Sound: Krzysztof Bagiński
Light: Jacqueline Sobiszewski
Costume / styling: Nico Navarro Rueda, Franziska Acksel
Dramaturgical support: Jette Büchsenschütz
Artistic dialogue: Suvi Kemppainen
Photos: Spyros Rennt
Video documentation: Margarita Maximova
With thanks to: Maciej Sado

This performance is made possible with support from Eastside Projects, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, the Polish Cultural Institute, and public funding by Arts Council England, and co-financed by the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.

VENUE INFO

The building is wheelchair accessible. There is a step at the entrance but a ramp is available. There are two gender neutral toilets available, both are gender neutral with one fully accessible toilet. Find out more here.

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Visual

CONTENT WARNINGS

Flashing Lights Loud Bangs Loud Music Nudity Sexual Content

 

 

 

 

 

“This resting, patience is one of those rare shows that make you feel like the first time you’re seeing dance… [it] brushes off all memories and brings back the old-forgotten feeling of falling in love.” Springback Magazine