Alex Baczynski-Jenkins (PL/UK): The tremble
SAT 18.9.2021 / 13.00 – 16.00
@ KUOPIO CITY HALL
address: Tulliportinkatu 31
Accessible
The work is part of Shortlist LIVE! Programme, and the artist is nominated for the ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art award.
Note, that the venue has a limited capacity and participants will be admitted on a first-come-first-serve basis. Ensure your seat to the beginning of the performance by making a reservation! After the seats are sold out, don’t fret, as participants will be admitted to the performance once vacancy becomes available during the above mentioned three (3) hour performance period – we look forward to seeing you there!
The tremble is the first episode of the work The tremble, the symptom, the swell and the hole together which unfolds over four episodes. The work enacts a choreographic mediation on the relationships between touch, intimacy, loss and collectivity.Each episode has its specific embodied vocabulary through which the performers navigate intimate and fragmentary exchanges reflecting on the edges of subjectivity, corporeality and relationality.
In this choreography Baczynski-Jenkins develops vocabularies that range from micro-gestures to poems, social dances and their abstractions. An important part of his work is the use of performance as an agent for what he describes as ‘other-worlding’. Expressions of care and empathy lose their usual conventions and representations and are found through micro-gestures, figures of entanglement and dances. Instead of a plot, there is a plotting of an affective field embodied by queer affections that circulate between the performers.
DURATION 3h
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