"THE ART OF LOSING"
"ORBITY"
Choreography/Directing: Lena Skrzypczak
Production: School of Contemporary Dance Poznań
Music : Łukasz Pułkownik
Premiere: 17 of June 2025
Dancers: Paulina Kubicka, Antoni Horla, Alicja Neumann, Oskar Dziuba, Wiktoria Szczepańska, Zofia Brzezińska, Maja Kuczyńska, Joanna Niemier, Tatiana Wiśniewska, Oliwia Dobrzycka, Oliwia Donarska, Natalia Jasińska, Amelia Jankowiak, Kinga Koper.
“The Art of Losing” is a story about loss - not the sudden kind, but the everyday ones, where we lose a little more of ourselves from one day to the next. These losses are not spectacular; at first, they may even go unnoticed, yet over time they become the most profound. Without the presence of others, they could consume us entirely. But thanks to witnesses, memories do not fade as easily, and gestures can take the place of words. Still, how strong is the desire to bring back something deeply hidden—or something that has already disappeared completely?
Choreography/Directing: Lena Skrzypczak
Music: Julia Oleksa
Premiere: 12 of December 2025
Dancers: Lena Skrzypczak, Alicja Neumann, Piotr Tokarski, Ksawery Krakowiak
Funded by the City of Poznań as part of the 2025 Creative Scholarships Programme
"Orbits" is a story about the invisible threads that connect people and weave their lives together. In a world where emotional numbness has become a defense mechanism and loneliness is a choice rooted in fear, we seem to crave human connection more than ever. How alike are we, even when, at first glance, we appear to have nothing in common? And in today's world, is a genuine human encounter still possible?
Created within the conventions of dance theatre, Orbits combines intense physical movement with elaborate set design, strong character work, and spoken text. This interdisciplinary form ensures accessibility and situates the work within current social discourse. Rather than offering clear answers, the performance becomes a space for reflecting on the possibility of genuine encounter in times of a crisis of dialogue. It invites the audience into an experience that encourages attentiveness, empathy, and confrontation with one’s own way of existing “beside” others.
Choreography/Directing: Lena Skrzypczak
Production: Studio Nieznane Poznań
Premiere: 12 of June 2026
Dancers: Maja Kuczyńska, Oskar Dziuba, Wiktoria Szczepańska, Marcelina Durdyn, Karolina Lieske, Wiktoria Czarnecka, Nikoletta Kołakowska, Sandra Piekarska, Inga Rosińska, Julia Glazik, Marianna Dutka, Martyna Raczewska, Oliwia KlimenkoProdukcja: Studio Nieznane
This dance theatre performance is inspired by what lies hidden in the fine print of everyday life - unspoken meanings, half-truths, and subtle gestures. The title, Fine Print, becomes a metaphor for the rules we accept without reading, the intentions left unspoken, and the forms of violence that operate discreetly—under the guise of care, professionalism, or politeness.
The performance explores the mechanisms through which what is declared diverges from what is real, and relationships are shaped by unreadable clauses and invisible conditions. In a world of appearances, double meanings, and unexamined decisions, it poses a series of questions: Can we ever be certain of what we see? Does illusion begin on the stage?
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