The premiere of the latest KCC production, Rooms by the Sea, is behind us!
The premiere of the latest KCC production, Rooms by the Sea. Exercises in Listening, choreographed by Joanna Leśnierowska, is behind us. This performance opened the 4th edition of the Krakow Dance Festival. It is also the first event in KCC’s history where the performance was available with audio description. The audio description was created by Katarzyna Peplińska-Pietrzak, and we are grateful for her collaboration. We would like to thank everyone for their presence on the premiere day and all the creators involved in this project. We look forward to the future of this work!
Rooms by the sea. Excercises in Listening – Joanna Leśnierowska
Concept, choreography, visual dramaturgy: Joanna Leśnierowska
Soundscape and vocal work: Katarzyna Sitarz
Movement and performance: Karol Miękina, Piotr Skalski, Monika Szpunar, Monika Węgrzynowicz, Dominika Wiak
Movement coaching: Janusz Orlik
Costumes: Monika Węgrzynowicz (yellow jacket designed by Michiel Keuper / performance blur)
Sound mastering and vocal recording: Brave Records
Graphic design: Michał Andrzej Łuczak, Anna Zielińska (photoholicstudio.pl)
Production supervision: Agnieszka Barańska-Kozik, Aleksandra Honza
Production: Krakow Choreographic Centre – Nowa Huta Cultural Centre, Joanna Leśnierowska SFX
Premiere: White Gallery CENTRUM NCK, 3rd August – Krakow Dance Festival
ABOUT PERFORMANCE
Joanna Leśnierowska takes us back to the rooms by the sea. Ten years after the premiere of …/rooms by the sea/ exercises in seeing, she once again looks through Hopper-esque lenses at figures persistently traversing landscapes dense with micro gestures and sounds. She juxtaposes the external and internal worlds, offering us insight into ambiguous yet deeply familiar states of suspension, alienation, distance (even from one another), and longing for what is undefined and eludes language.
At the same time, celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Krakow Choreographic Centre, the artist reactivates a choreographic language developed over more than a decade, seeking a physical and visual representation of the idea of the polyphonic body: a body that houses many voices, struggling with the excess, cacophony, and noise of these voices. Continuing her search at the intersection of choreography and the visual arts, she also questions where we are heading, several years after the global experience of forced isolation, and whether we still feel trapped in Hopper’s images. And, after decades of chosen alienation, do we wish and are we capable of truly hearing each other and being together in a different way?
Photo: Klaudyna Schubert
