This resting, patience by dancer and choreographer Ewa Dziarnowska harnesses flows of time and attention to cultivate a space of sensuousness and presence. This finely attuned durational performance steps away from the tradition of viewing dance as an alienated spectacle to instead emphasize its immanent sociability. Part ghostly repository of unconsumed sensuality, part 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. In its devotion to the body, This resting, patience proposes 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.

Ewa Dziarnowska is a dancer and choreographer based in Berlin and working internationally.   Her choreographic projects, This resting, patience (Tanztage Berlin Festival 2024), https://4677684728466.com (an online archive project) and A Room With a Better View (Display Gallery x Berlin Art Week) engage with the ideologies of improvisatory processes and embodied knowledge in countering the prevailing need for rationality, linearity and sense-making. She is interested in a poetic dimension of dance and its inherent sensuality. Real-time-based, but not devoid of precision and expertise in relation to movement techniques, her practice challenges ways in which dance circulates within the context of bourgeois theatrical conventions and the product-oriented entertainment industry.

Her work has been shown at venues and festivals such as Sophiensaele / Berlin Art Week (DE), Schwere Reiter / International Dance Festival Munich (DE), Tanzquartier Wien / Rakete Festival (AT), MDT / My Wild Flag (SE), Santarcangelo Festival (IT), Mind Eater (NO), Bit Teatergarasjen (NO), What You See Festival (NL), FLAM (NL), Gessnerallee / Backslash (CH), Ephemera Festival (PL), Scena Tańca Studio / Teatr Studio (PL), ms1 / Muzeum Sztuki (PL).

As a performer, most recently Ewa has worked with Alex Baczyński-Jenkins, Michele Rizzo, Ofelia Jarl Ortega and Enad Marouf.

Leah Marojević’s practice spans performance, choreography, teaching, dramaturgy, mentorship and support for other artists. Choreographic commissions include Pre-Professional Year, Sydney Dance Company (2019), London Contemporary Dance School Graduating Season (2020), Mass Hysteria Collective (2020) and Matilde Cerruti Quara, Jupiter Woods (2020).

Leah collaborates regularly and has worked and performed for visual artists, companies and choreographers; Colette Sadler, Ola Maciejewska, Theo Clinkard, Jefta Van Dinther, Megan Rooney, Ewa Dziarnowska, Paulina Olowska, Emmilou Rößling, Sarah Browne, Sam Williams, Holly Blakey, Candoco Dance Company, Joe Moran among others. In 2019 Leah created The Elsewhen Series in collaboration with choreographer Theo Clinkard as well as collaborating on the creations of commissioned works for Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch (2015), Danza Contemporanea de Cuba (2016) & Candoco Dance Company (2019) among others.

Krzysztof Bagiński is an artist and organizer from Poland. He is a co-curator of W Brzask (At Dawn), a series of experimental music shows in Warsaw. As a sound artist, he works closely with choreography and performance.

Jacqueline Sobiszewski is a visual artist from the Netherlands who works with light, video, film and photography. She studied at the Cinematography Department of the Polish National Film, Television and Theater School in Łódź.

She combines 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, São Paulo. She was awarded at the 15th International Small Scene Theater Festival in Rijeka, Croatia for light direction in Medea 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”.