{"id":13913,"date":"2026-08-10T12:33:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T10:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/london\/?p=13913"},"modified":"2026-08-10T12:33:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T10:33:37","slug":"fierce-festival-2026-new-polish-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/london\/2026\/08\/10\/fierce-festival-2026-new-polish-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Fierce Festival 2026: New Polish Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>14 &#8211; 18th October 2026<\/strong> | <strong>Tickets: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tickettailor.com\/events\/fierce\/\">PURCHASE HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Fierce Festival<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wearefierce.org\/\">Fierce<\/a> <\/strong>presents another trio of UK debuts at this year\u2019s festival from Polish dance artists <strong>Ewa<\/strong> <strong>Dziarnowska<\/strong>, <strong>Hana Umeda <\/strong>and <strong>Wojciech Grudzi\u0144ski,<\/strong> supported by the <strong><em>Polish Cultural Institute and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tickettailor.com\/events\/fierce\/2310032\">Ewa Dziarnowska: This resting, patience<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"693\" src=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/london\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/08\/image-2-1024x693.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13917\" style=\"width:590px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/london\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/08\/image-2-1024x693.png 1024w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/london\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/08\/image-2-300x203.png 300w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/london\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/08\/image-2-768x520.png 768w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/london\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/08\/image-2-1536x1039.png 1536w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/london\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/08\/image-2.png 1803w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>17-18th October 2026 | Eastside Projects<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Tickets: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tickettailor.com\/events\/fierce\/2310032\">HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">One of the most exciting voices in contemporary European dance,<strong> Dziarnowska<\/strong> presents <em><strong>This resting, patience<\/strong><\/em>, a durational immersive work of seduction, sensuality and striptease. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Part ghostly repository of unconsumed sensuality, an installative kinetic fadeout, part somatic (strip)tease,\u00a0<em>This resting, patience<\/em>\u00a0addresses 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,\u00a0<em>This resting, patience<\/em>\u00a0proposes 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Find out more about Ewa Dziarnowska <a href=\"https:\/\/wearefierce.org\/fierce_events\/this-resting-patience\/\">HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tickettailor.com\/events\/fierce\/2310055\">Hana Umeda: RAPEFLOWER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/london\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/08\/image-1-1024x683.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13916\" style=\"width:626px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/london\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/08\/image-1-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/london\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/08\/image-1-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/london\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/08\/image-1-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/london\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/08\/image-1-1536x1024.png 1536w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/london\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/08\/image-1.png 1827w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>17-18th October 2026 | Midlands Arts Centre<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Tickets: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tickettailor.com\/events\/fierce\/2310055\">HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Umeda\u2019s <em>RAPEFLOWER <\/em><\/strong>draws on the Japanese jiutamai tradition in a solo performance reflecting on trauma, sexual violence and the body as a site of inherited experience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>RAPEFLOWER<\/em>\u00a0is an investigation conducted within one\u2019s own body. It is in the body, not in the discourse, that the experience of sexual violence &#8211; both one\u2019s own, inherited and learned &#8211; is intertwined with defense and survival strategies. This is a story about rape understood as a condition, not just a single event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Find out more about Hana Umeda <a href=\"https:\/\/wearefierce.org\/fierce_events\/rapeflower\/\">HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tickettailor.com\/events\/fierce\/2310359\"><strong>Wojciech Grudzi\u0144ski<\/strong>: <strong>THREESOME<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"670\" src=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/london\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/08\/image-1024x670.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13915\" style=\"width:636px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/london\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/08\/image-1024x670.png 1024w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/london\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/08\/image-300x196.png 300w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/london\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/08\/image-768x502.png 768w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/london\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/08\/image-1536x1005.png 1536w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/london\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/08\/image.png 1844w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>14-15th October 2026 | Midlands Arts Centre<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Tickets: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tickettailor.com\/events\/fierce\/2310359\">HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">And in <strong>Grudzi\u0144ski\u2019s<\/strong> hazy posthumous ballet <em><strong>THREESOME<\/strong>, <\/em>he delves into the memory and legacy of three legendary, but little-remembered, Polish dancers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">In\u00a0<em>Threesome<\/em>, 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 Stanis\u0142aw Szyma\u0144ski, Wojciech Wiesio\u0142\u0142owski, and Gerard Wilk. Brought up in post-war, communist Poland, two of them eventually emigrated, while one chose to stay in his native country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Find out more about Wojciech Grudzi\u0144ski<a href=\"https:\/\/wearefierce.org\/fierce_events\/threesome\/\"> HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Additional Information can be found @<a href=\"https:\/\/wearefierce.org\/\">https:\/\/wearefierce.org\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>14 &#8211; 18th October 2026 | Tickets: PURCHASE HERE Fierce Festival A biennial international theatre and performance festival based in Birmingham, UK. 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Its programme ranges from provocative and playful to beautiful and thought-provoking.\nFierce presents another trio of UK debuts at this year\u2019s festival from Polish dance artists Ewa Dziarnowska, Hana Umeda and Wojciech Grudzi\u0144ski, supported by the Polish Cultural Institute and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute. \nEwa Dziarnowska: This resting, patience\n17-18th October 2026 | Eastside Projects\nTickets: HERE\nOne of the most exciting voices in contemporary European dance, Dziarnowska presents This resting, patience, a durational immersive work of seduction, sensuality and striptease. \nPart ghostly repository of unconsumed sensuality, an installative kinetic fadeout, part somatic (strip)tease,\u00a0This resting, patience\u00a0addresses 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,\u00a0This resting, patience\u00a0proposes 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.\nFind out more about Ewa Dziarnowska HERE\nHana Umeda: RAPEFLOWER\n17-18th October 2026 | Midlands Arts Centre\nTickets: HERE\nUmeda\u2019s 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. \nRAPEFLOWER\u00a0is an investigation conducted within one\u2019s own body. It is in the body, not in the discourse, that the experience of sexual violence - both one\u2019s 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.\nIdentifying 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.\nFind out more about Hana Umeda HERE\nWojciech Grudzi\u0144ski: THREESOME\n14-15th October 2026 | Midlands Arts Centre\nTickets: HERE\nAnd in Grudzi\u0144ski\u2019s hazy posthumous ballet THREESOME, he delves into the memory and legacy of three legendary, but little-remembered, Polish dancers.\nIn\u00a0Threesome, Wojciech Grudzinski shares the dance space with spectral figures from the past as he grapple with their legacy. 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