A seductive dance piece that dissolves time
A three hour long dance piece at Kunsthall 3,14 about attraction, seduction and the immanent sociability of dance. Through a finely tuned virtuosity, Ewa Dziarnowska and Leah Marojević build an ever-evolving, caring and attentive dance performance. Both generous and sensual, it transcends its own message as only great works of art can. During the performance you are free to leave and re-enter as you please.
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. It steps away from the tradition of viewing dance as an alienated spectacle to instead emphasise its immanent sociability.
In its devotion to the body, This resting, patience proposes sensuality and dancing as timeless and democratically available technologies, technologies for undoing the world and projecting the continuous present into a future that lasts, quintessentially tender, infatuated, attentive.
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«My cheeks flush, my heart aches, my mouth breaks into smiles. Their performing bodies transmit emotion physically. … I indulge in this luxurious offering, swirling in the grace, style, and virtue of the dancers’ nuanced production of presence» (Alice Heyward, Tanzschreiber).
«This resting, patience is one of those rare shows that make you feel like the first time you’re seeing dance. … a work that brushes off all memories and brings back the old-forgotten feeling of falling in love» (Evgeny Borisenko, Springback Magazine).
