Author: gounis

In Alex Baczyński-Jenkins’s Us Swerve (2014), performers on rollerblades orbit one another while reciting, remixing, and reformulating fragments of poetry that meditate on the subject of desire. This polyphonic choreographic “score” is perpetually altered by the performers’ movements, attitudes, and affects. As the performers circulate, they begin to channel a queer archive of verses and… Continue reading Us Swerve (2014)

Untitled (Holding Horizon) is a choreography that continues Alex Baczyński-Jenkins’ engagement with negotiations of desire, the materiality of gestures, and affections of a queer commons. Through sensual, alienated gestures and the box step –a movement used in several social dances– synchronization, pleasure and alliance coexist with disorientation, limitation, and loss. On the thresholds of visibility… Continue reading Untitled (Holding Horizon) (2019-2022)

This work engages with eroticism, longing, pleasure, and touch. It was first performed at the Foksal Foundation, between two floors. On the first floor samples of Urszula Sipińska’s romantic ballad Nim Zakwitnie Tysiąc Róż (Until a Thousand Roses Bloom, 1971) are delivered in various loops, for example the lyrics “this is not about silly fabrics… Continue reading Until a thousand roses bloom – with Warsaw in the background (2018)

Unending love, or love dies, on repeat like it’s endless is a choreography that reflects on the relations of desire, dance, fragmentation, love (as communality) and time. The work develops and unfolds through its different iterations. Through gesture, sensuality, touch and relationality, Baczynski-Jenkins’ practice unfolds structures and politics of desire. Relationality is present in the… Continue reading Unending love, or love dies, on repeat like it’s endless (2021)

The work unfolds over four episodes and is a choreographic mediation on the relationships between affection, touch, desire and loss. 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. The piece proposes another relationship with duration and attempts to… Continue reading The tremble, the symptom, the swell and the hole together (2017)

Federico is a minimal choreography for touch between two performers. The figures formed between the hands of the performers are at times recognisable as an intimate touch and at times abstract figures of relationality and entanglement. This is a choreography of desire in the smallest scale, that mobiles affect and sensuality, as a means for… Continue reading Federico (2015)