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SUMMARY:Ewa Dziarnowska: This resting, patience
UID:https://instytutpolski.pl/newyork/2026/08/24/ewa-dziarnowska-this-resting-patience/
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DESCRIPTION:Thursday, October 1 – Friday October 2 at 7:30 PMNYU Skirball566
LaGuardia Pl, New York, NYTickets
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.
ADVISORYSeating 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 TIME3 hours
GET UP CLOSEA rare chance to sit onstage with the performers, inside the
dance rather than in front of it.
GET PERSONALA limited-capacity encounter with one of the most talked-about
younger voices in European contemporary dance.
BE MESMERIZEDA 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.
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