Thursday, October 1 – Friday October 2 at 7:30 PM
NYU Skirball
566 LaGuardia Pl, New York, NY
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Part ghostly repository of unconsumed sensuality, part 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. It steps away from the tradition of viewing dance as an alienated spectacle, instead emphasizing its immanent sociability.

In its devotion to the body, This resting, patience proposes sensuousness and dancing as timeless and democratically available technologies for undoing the world and projecting the continuous present into a future that lasts—quintessentially tender, infatuated, and attentive.

A carpet of deep ultramarine blue, a small audience seated onstage within arm’s reach of the dancers, and Dionne Warwick’s “What the World Needs Now” playing on a loop that never quite resolves. For three hours, Ewa Dziarnowska and Leah Marojević draw together and pull apart, fall into step and out of it, testing and tending in turn. The dance is slow and unafraid of its own duration, building its charge by holding to one thing until it changes.

From one of Europe’s most striking younger choreographers, the piece offers something few dance works do: no stage, only proximity. Watching stops being a private act and becomes something reciprocal, something the two dancers can feel taking place. It turns desire, nearness, and the patience intimacy asks into something felt rather than observed.

ADVISORY
Seating is limited and on stage. Audience members may enter and exit freely throughout the performance and are welcome to move within the space. The performance includes partial nudity.

RUN TIME
3 hours

GET UP CLOSE
A rare chance to sit onstage with the performers, inside the dance rather than in front of it.

GET PERSONAL
A limited-capacity encounter with one of the most talked-about younger voices in European contemporary dance.

BE MESMERIZED
A quiet, hypnotic opening to the season, for audiences willing to slow down and watch attention become physical.

Ewa Dziarnowska is a Polish dancer and choreographer based in Berlin and working internationally. Her practice centers on improvisation and embodied knowledge, attending to sensation, rhythm, and relation rather than narrative or fixed form. This resting, patience premiered at Tanztage Berlin at Sophiensæle in January 2024 and has since traveled across Europe, drawing particular attention after its presentation at the Santarcangelo Festival in Italy. She is widely regarded as one of the more compelling voices of the younger generation of Polish performance artists.

Leah Marojević is a London-born, Berlin-based artist whose practice spans performance, choreography, teaching, singing, dramaturgy, mentorship, and support for other artists.  Her collaborators include Theo Clinkard, Jefta van Dinther, Colette Sadler, and Candoco Dance Company, and who has received choreographic commissions from Sydney Dance Company and London Contemporary Dance School.

Krzysztof Bagiński is a Warsaw-based artist, filmmaker and music producer working across film, sound and performance. Baginski is a co-founder and member of Kem collective. He also co-curates “W Brzask” (At Dawn), a series of experimental music concerts in the gardens of Xawery Dunikowski Museum of Sculpture in Warsaw.  As a sound artist, he works closely with choreography and performance.

Jacqueline Sobiszewski is a visual artist, works with light, video, film and photography. Born and raised in the Netherlands. Studied at the Cinematography Department of the State Higher School of Film, Television and Theater in Łódź. Combining various techniques, always looking for a new visual language in various fields of art, cooperating with directors, musicians, choreographers and individually. Her work has been shown in NYC,Los Angeles, Sydney, London, Paris, Vienna, Madrid, Lisbon, Sao Paulo. She was awarded at the 15th International Small Scene Theater Festival in Rijeka, Croatia for light direction in Medea ( awarded with the Nestroy Preis ) by Grzegorz Jarzyna and received a distinction for lighting design at The Divine Comedy International Theater Festival “for creating a coherent landscape in which individuality manifests itself through a powerful emotional charge.

This project is made possible in part with support from the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Polish Cultural Institute New York, and Harkness Foundation for Dance.