THIS IS THE REAL THING
I crush my skin's landscape. I roll it up, put it on, drop it, move it, reveal it, hide it, send it back. Searching, losing and finding it, in the absolute here and now, before "it is!”. I am slowly transforming, constantly forming, I unexpectedly destroy, knot, tear apart and carefully unscrew. The endless process of becoming enchanted into a visible image/object. I put together a poetic, fleshy album for newspaper clippings, mythical stories heard by chance and carefully hidden dreams.
This is the real thing is a performance where the body is at the center of the performance. A single dancer creates and deconstructs her environment, playing in the landscape of visual meanings and possible references. Her own body flickers and transforms, remaining in the process of continuous becoming. Various qualities, textures, fragments of emotions, associations, situations, intentions, characters, actions, become embodied, but none of them is fixed in the form of a visual object. The physical body functions rather as an infinite hypertext, referring the viewer to more and more new associations. The dialogue between the real body and its visual representations raises the question of what the body actually is, how we perceive it and to what extent we can consciously construct it.
Concept, performance: Anna Nowicka
Dramaturgy: Mateusz Szymanówka
Music: Adam Świtała
Costume: Tanja Padan / Kiss the Future
Light design: Aleksandr Prowaliński
Created within the frame of a choreographic program POSZERZANIE POLA / WIDENING THE FIELD by Nowy Teatr and Art Stations Foundation. Artist in the residency program of Fabrik Potsdam.
Premiere: 07.11.2018, Nowy Teatr, Warsaw; Further shows: 08.11.2018 - 09.11.2018, Nowy Teatr, Warsaw; 08 – 10.03.2019, Nowy Teatr, Warsaw; 22.06.2019, Malta Festival, Poznań; 05.09.2019, Polish Dance Platform, Gdańsk; 10.12.2019, Boska Komedia Festival, Kraków; 03-05.01.2020, Nowy Teatr, Warsaw; 17.05.2020, Strefa Kultury, Wrocław; 21-23.05.2020, Performing Arts Festival, DOCK11, Berlin; 11.06.2021, Theater Freiburg