Nothing Left / Nothing’s Right

An evening of two solo dance forms and two move­ment lan­guages: con­tem­po­rary dance and butoh. 

Works by Aga Ster­czyńs­ka and Anna Juniewicz — artists who first met through a quo­ta­tion: “I dreamt I went to the doc­tor’s and she gave me eight min­utes to live – I’d been sit­ting in the fuck­ing wait­ing room half an hour”. — Sarah Kane, 4.48 Psy­chosis “Śniło mi się, że poszłam do lekar­ki i powiedzi­ała, że zostało mi osiem min­ut życia. Czekałam w pier­dolonej poczekalni pół godziny”. — Sarah Kane, 4.48 Psy­chosis in the trans­la­tion by Klau­dy­na Rozhin for the pro­duc­tion direct­ed by Grze­gorz Jarzyna

Total run­ning time: approx. 60 minutes.

Programme:

Solo 1: Noth­ing Left… besides the left­overs of self that refused to die.

Chore­og­ra­phy and per­for­mance: Aga Sterczyńska

The project was realised with funds from the Nation­al Insti­tute of Music and Dance as part of the Inter­na­tion­al Activ­i­ty Sup­port Programme.

Solo 2: Noth­ing’s Right (Han­dle With Care)

A joke opened the door. A dream walked in. A dance per­for­mance based on butoh — a coun­ter­cul­tur­al form of dance that orig­i­nat­ed in Japan in the sec­ond half of the 20th cen­tu­ry. Butoh is a dance of dark­ness that plays — with expec­ta­tions, with the body, with time.

Chore­og­ra­phy, per­for­mance and cos­tume: Anna Juniewicz

Note: the per­for­mance Noth­ing’s Right is intend­ed for adult audi­ences and con­tains scenes of nudity.

Performers:

Aga Ster­czyńs­ka
Anna Juniewicz

Production:

pro­gramme con­cept and text: Aga Ster­czyńs­ka, Anna Juniewicz
pro­duc­tion: Olga Pasek
visu­al iden­ti­ty: Alek­san­dra Ołdak

Przestrzeń Muzy­ki Współczes­nej Hash­tag Lab is co-financed by the City of War­saw.
The media patron of Przestrzeń Muzy­ki Współczes­nej Hash­tag Lab is POLMIC​.PL.

If you want to know more about the artists:

Aga Ster­czyńs­ka
Chore­o­g­ra­ph­er, dancer, impro­vis­er, dance researcher. In her artis­tic prac­tice she address­es themes of iden­ti­ty, shame, (lack of) free­dom, inter­nal lim­i­nal states and non-nor­ma­tiv­i­ty. She works in Poland and abroad. She has under­tak­en artis­tic res­i­den­cies at Stu­dio Chro­ma in France (Cul­ture Moves Europe), the inter­dis­ci­pli­nary Lade­moen Kun­st­nerverk­st­ed­er (LKV) in Nor­way, Kelim Chore­og­ra­phy Cen­ter in Israel, and online. She has been a ben­e­fi­cia­ry of the Inter­na­tion­al Activ­i­ty Sup­port Pro­gramme of the Nation­al Insti­tute of Music and Dance three times. The work on the solo Noth­ing left began as part of this year’s project at Cen­tro Nazionale di Pro­duzione del­la Dan­za Can­go Vir­gilio Sieni in Flo­rence, realised with the sup­port of NIMiT.

Anna Juniewicz
Dancer, per­former, artivist. In dance she draws pri­mar­i­ly on butoh tech­niques, which she has been prac­tis­ing for 15 years as a dance of provo­ca­tion and play, of shad­ow and for­bid­den colours. In 2017, at the invi­ta­tion of Tet­suro Fukuhara, she took part in the res­i­den­cy project New Butoh Space Dance in Tokyo. She has per­formed at, among oth­ers, Nowy Teatr, Teatr Stu­dio, Cen­trum Mang­gha in Kraków, KANAL–Centre Pom­pi­dou in Brus­sels, and Tevere Art Gallery in Rome. She has pre­sent­ed solo chore­o­gra­phies at the inter­na­tion­al dance fes­ti­vals Butoh­po­lis in War­saw (2023, 2024) and En Chair et en Son in Paris (2023). Since 2021 she has been cre­at­ing inti­mate dance film forms — the major­i­ty direct­ed, filmed, danced and edit­ed by herself.

Tickets

30 PLN