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SUMMARY:Fierce Festival 2026: New Polish Performance
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DESCRIPTION:14 - 18th October 2026 | Tickets: PURCHASE HERE
Fierce Festival 
A biennial international theatre and performance festival based in
Birmingham, UK. It transforms the city by staging bold, immersive events in
both traditional venues and unexpected spaces such as warehouses, swimming
pools and car parks. Showcasing theatre, dance, music, installations,
activism and more, the festival creates shared, live experiences that
encourage experimentation and connection. Fierce champions diverse and
marginalised voices through an intersectional approach, challenging ideas
about what art can be, who creates it and where it belongs. Its programme
ranges from provocative and playful to beautiful and thought-provoking.
Fierce presents another trio of UK debuts at this year’s festival from
Polish dance artists Ewa Dziarnowska, Hana Umeda and Wojciech Grudziński,
supported by the Polish Cultural Institute and the Adam Mickiewicz
Institute. 
Ewa Dziarnowska: This resting, patience
17-18th October 2026 | Eastside Projects
Tickets: HERE
One of the most exciting voices in contemporary European dance, Dziarnowska
presents This resting, patience, a durational immersive work of seduction,
sensuality and striptease. 
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.
Find out more about Ewa Dziarnowska HERE
Hana Umeda: RAPEFLOWER
17-18th October 2026 | Midlands Arts Centre
Tickets: HERE
Umeda’s RAPEFLOWER draws on the Japanese jiutamai tradition in a solo
performance reflecting on trauma, sexual violence and the body as a site of
inherited experience. 
RAPEFLOWER is an investigation conducted within one’s own body. It is in
the body, not in the discourse, that the experience of sexual violence -
both one’s own, inherited and learned - is intertwined with defense and
survival strategies. This is a story about rape understood as a condition,
not just a single event.
Identifying oneself as a survivor often entails silence. In order to avoid
becoming an object of pity, one becomes invisible. Avoiding confrontation
with the experience of rape can lead to a compulsion to repeat the
traumatic situation in search of lost control.
Find out more about Hana Umeda HERE
Wojciech Grudziński: THREESOME
14-15th October 2026 | Midlands Arts Centre
Tickets: HERE
And in Grudziński’s hazy posthumous ballet THREESOME, he delves into the
memory and legacy of three legendary, but little-remembered, Polish
dancers.
In Threesome, Wojciech Grudzinski shares the dance space with spectral
figures from the past as he grapple with their legacy. In this exercise in
phantasmagoric choreography, he goes cruising through the biographies of
the legendary dancers Stanisław Szymański, Wojciech Wiesiołłowski, and
Gerard Wilk. Brought up in post-war, communist Poland, two of them
eventually emigrated, while one chose to stay in his native country.
Find out more about Wojciech Grudziński HERE
Additional Information can be found @https://wearefierce.org/
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