Dance Theater Performance
Tour part of the “Inspiring Culture 2022-2023” program.

TICKETS April 1, 2023 at 7:30pm ET, Jersey City Theater Center (Jersey City, NJ, US)
April 7-8, 2023 at 7:30pm PT, The Prebys Theater San Diego State University (San Diego, CA, US)
April 15, 2023 at 7pm PT, Centro Cultural Tijuana (Tijuana, Mexico)

Director: Joe Alter
Choreography: Joe Alter in cooperation with Katarzyna Baran, Daniela Komędera-Miśkiewicz, Mikołaj Karczewski, Piotr Stanek
Music: Michał Chytkowski 
Lighting director: Paweł Murlik

The show’s title refers to a concept used in psychology to describe the devastating result for humans of long-term lack of physical contact. 

Touch is the primary way we communicate our needs. The body knows. The body remembers. The play addresses this issue and initiates discussion. It is a laboratory of the need for touch and the human condition in everyday life, where we become DISCONNECTED from ourselves. We are looking for answers to the question: how to deal with the lack of intimacy in today’s world? Is it still possible to hear the inner voice – to trust the primal CALL and return to nature – to the roots, to trust the power of intuition?  These questions are particularly relevant today, in a post-pandemic world where isolation and distance have become the norm.

Program Partners: San Diego State University (foreign strategic partner), ArtTrakcja Foundation, Polish Cultural Institute New York, Polish Consulate in Los Angeles, Polish Embassy in Mexico.

The performance, co-produced by Teatr Polski in Wrocław and the ArtTrakcja Foundation, was directed by American dancer, choreographer and contemporary dance educator Joe Alter. The co-organizer is National Institute of Music and Dance within the framework of its own programme “Choreographic Orders 2021”, financed by the Ministry of Culture, National Heritage and Sport. International tour of SKIN HUNGER. Project is co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage as part of the Inspiring Cultureprogramme. Performance is part of the Spring of Polish Culture in the Western United States, supported by the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Los Angeles.