Threesome

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The project, titled Threesome, is a long-term research on the legacy and trajectories of three legendary Polish ballet dancers from the communist era.

On October 15th at 7:00 PM, TELOCVIČŇA will host the post-residency presentation of Polish artists Wojciech Grudziński, Joanna Ostrowska, and Marta Szypulska, made possible by the Visegrad Artist Residency—Performing Arts program.

The project, titled Threesome, is a long-term research on the legacy and trajectories of three legendary Polish ballet dancers from the communist era. This event in Bratislava wraps up the creation process of Threesome and serves as its studio version premiere in Slovakia.
“In Threesome, I share the dance space with spectral figures from the past as I grapple with their legacy. In this exercise in phantasmagoric choreography, I go cruising through the biographies of the legendary dancers Stanisław Szymański, Wojciech Wiesiołłowski, and Gerard Wilk.

Brought up in post-war, communist Poland, two of them eventually emigrated, while one chose to stay in his native country. How have their bodies been remembered? How did these bodies come to recognize their sensibility and express it on stage? How can these marginalized lives be reclaimed and embodied today? How do we construct an untamed, monstrous, illogical bodily archive of queer history without losing any of their uniqueness?”

concept, choreography, performance: Wojciech Grudziński
artistic collaboration: Igor Cardellini
dramaturgical support: Joanna Ostrowska, Klaudia Hartung-Wójciak
text: Klaudia Hartung-Wójciak
artistic advisor: Miguel Angel Melgares
music: Lubomir Grzelak, Wojtek Blecharz
light design: Jacqueline Sobiszewski
costume design: Marta Szypulska
technical direction: Thibault Villard
video: Rafał Dominik
production: Wojciech Grudziński / 910113 Foundation

Residencies: Cité Internationale des Arts, Frascati, Visegrad Artist Residency—Performing Arts program
Co-financed by The Capital City of Warsaw
With the Support of: Centre national de la danse – Pantin, Frascati
Co-production: Belluard Bollwerk, Nowy Teatr
Financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland