I Love Ballet, choreo. Ramona Nagabczyńska

I Love Ballet, choreo. Ramona Nagabczyńska

📅 21–22.03, 19:00

🎫 tickets: https://komuna.warszawa.pl/bilety/

⏱️ running time: 60 minutes

⚠️ notice: the performance uses smoke, loud music, strobe lights

The statement “I love ballet” is almost anecdotal within the dance community. Such a sentence often comes from ballet school students when asked why they chose ballet training while feeling the oppressive gaze of their ballet teacher.

Four dancers and independent dance artists who graduated from ballet school but left ballet for other dance forms look at ballet anew. They notice what still attracts them in this discipline, what repels them, and what traces of their ballet education they see in their current bodies and lives. Twenty years after ending their ballet journey, Aleksandra Borys, Karolina Kraczkowska, Ramona Nagabczyńska and Iza Szostak reach the critical distance needed to notice the “text” of ballet. As it turns out, this “text” is very rich. Both the explicitly expressed ballet librettos and the backstage narratives can be analyzed endlessly as ideological machines.

• Choreography: Ramona Nagabczyńska
• Dramaturgy: Agata Siniarska
• Set and costumes: Dominika Olszowy
• Costume collaboration: Joanna Kotowicz
• Music: Daniel Szwed
• Lighting design: Piotr Pieczyński
• Performers: Aleksandra Borys, Karolina Kraczkowska, Ramona Nagabczyńska, Iza Szostak

Co-funded by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.

The event is co-funded by the City of Warsaw as part of the Komuna Warszawa – Social Cultural Institution project.

photo: Pat Mic