Exchange: change - Time and Dance – Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art

It combines artistic residence whose results will be presented as part of the International Festival Ciało/Umysł during a one week-long creative workshop that will stimulate serious reflection on the ways in which dance and performative arts can provide answer to the question of time in practice.

Rush, continuity, a point on a timeline, a period of time, a short moment and unbearable longueurs, a pursuit of time, time measured with history of dance, time perceived as order, time perceived as passing? Or maybe just free time or a revolt against the tyranny of the clock?

Exchange: change – Time and Dance is a process-oriented project, with no pressure put on the final result… until the time comes.

• Aleksandra Bożek-Muszyńska (Poland)
  • A performative artist, choreographer, dancer, contemporary dance instructor. She has been a grantholder of the Alternative Dance Academy of Grażyna Kulczyk since 2015. She collaborates with Mufmi Dance Theatre in Warsaw and Appendix Foundation.
    • Violetta Villas once sang that ”time will come for this”. The starting point for this project is going to be based on the attempt to find an answer to the question: ”the time will come for what?”
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• Aniela Kokosza (Poland)
  • A performative artist, choreographer, choreotherapist, graduate of the Academy of Music in Poznań and  graduate of the Institute of Music and Dance (2015). She has collaborated with the Contemporary Dance Stage in Poznań and has been leading various dance and educational workshops in Poznań since 2008.
    • The project will be an attempt to escape from the pressure of time, come into existance in the parallel universe and find time-independent state of mind. The performer wants to share the comfort zone that she creates with her audience – she plans to give their time. What will they do with it? Everything depends on them…
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• Urszula Zerek (Poland)
  • A performer, dancer, graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. Her primary artistic need is a pursuit of collectivity. She is interested in broadening the possibilities for body expression and manners in which dance meets with other means of artistic expression.
    • The project is based on the idea of briging the seemingly preclusive media of dance and photography –time and its stopping, together. Which one will turn out to be more powerful? What will they offer to each other? How will they use each other? What will they create? A work of a performative duo consisting of a dancer and photographer.
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• Anna Biczók (Hungary)
  • A graduate of the Budapest Contemporary Dance Academy.
    • The artist, inspired by Marcel Proust’s work, will search for her lost time. Starting by physical improvisations, she will try to recollect some long time forgotten memories by confronting the autobiographical persepective with historical and social contexts of her youth.
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• Luca Dӧmӧtӧr (Hungary)
  • A graduate of the Budapest Contemporary Dance Academy.
    • The main idea for the project is based on a search for simple, almost organic sets of movements which could be potentially repeated indefinitely in mantra-like manner, suggesting the reflection upon the infinity in dance.
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• Lior Lazarot (Hungary)
  • The artistic residence will serve as the time for reflection upon the subject of coexistence of two worlds and totally different orders of time – in the real world and the virtual one. Which order is more familiar for us? Which one enables a more empathetic and other human being-oriented communication?
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• Curatorial concept
  • Edyta Kozak
  • Anikó Rácz
• Moderators
  • Rafał Dziemidok
  • Petra Péter