Ewa Dziarnowska

This resting, patience

Part ghostly repository of unconsumed sensuality, an 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 and steps away from the tradition of viewing dance as an alienated spectacle to instead emphasize its immanent sociability. 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.

Dance performance (180 min.)

By: Ewa Dziarnowska
With: Leah Marojević
Sound: Krzysztof Bagiński
Light: Jacqueline Sobiszewski
Costume / styling: Nico Navarro Rueda, Franziska Acksel
Dramaturgical support: Jette Büchsenschütz
Artistic dialogue: Suvi Kemppainen
Photos: Spyros Rennt
Video documentation: Margarita Maximova
With thanks to: Maciej Sado

Premiere: 13.01.2024 at Tanztage Festival, Sophiensaele, Berlin

A production by Ewa Dziarnowska in co-production with Sophiensæle. The 33rd Tanztage Berlin are a production of Sophiensæle. Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion and the Capital Cultural Fund (HKF). With the kind support of Theaterhaus Berlin Mitte.

Press
09/11/2025Conversation: Moving in November / Ewa Dziarnowska and Kerstin Schroth about This resting, patience
24/10/2025Interview: PW Magazine / Alice Heyward / Dances Built From Sensation
19/08/2025Review: Culture.pl / Alicja Müller / Polityki pragnienia. O samotności i przemocy na Santarcangelo Festival 2025
27/06/2025Interview: Culture.pl / Wiktoria Tabak / Ewa Dziarnowska: Szukam przestrzeni, w których można poczuć ulgę
16/12/2024Review: bastard / Oda Brekke / Completely consumed: performative experiments and critical context at Oslo’s new festival – MIND EATER
23/11/2024Article: Gessnerallee Zeitung / Isabel Gatzke / Der Lesbian Gaze und der Blick als Einladung
08/03/2024Review: Springback Magazine / Evgeny Borisenko /  Tanztage Berlin 2024: rites of hope and grief 
15/01/2024Review: tanzschreiber / Alice Heyward / blue is something of an ecstatic accident produced by void and fire
Photos: Spyros Rennt
Photos: Krzysztof Bagiński