PREMIERE! Sublime, chor. Karolina Kraczkowska

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PREMIERE! Sublime, chor. Karolina Kraczkowska 📅 3.10 Friday, 7:00 PM 📅 4.10 Saturday, 7:00 PM 📅 5.10 Sunday, 7:00 PM 🎟️ Tickets: https://komuna.warszawa.pl/bilety/ Karolina Kraczkowska engages in a choreographic dialogue with the concept of sublimity. She refers to the term sublimation as a phenomenon that evokes a simultaneous and peculiar sense of familiarity and unfamiliarity. She is interested in work that goes beyond individual identity and the moment of breakdown of all semiotic systems that organize our perception of reality. She seeks contact with what threatens and destabilizes the integrity of the subject. She also wants to highlight the contrast between the category of beauty and sublimity. The former captivates, while the latter touches; sometimes accompanied by fear and melancholy. It is a dark joy that evokes ambiguous feelings of fascination and repulsion. - Choreography: Karolina Kraczkowska - Dramaturgy: Ramona Nagabczyńska - Lighting design: Paweł Bownik - Set design and costumes: Wiktoria Walendzik - Photography: Łukasz Kuś Karolina Kraczkowska – dancer, performer, choreographer, graduate of the Institute of Applied Linguistics at the University of Warsaw and the Dance in Performance program at Laban Center in London. Member of the Polish Dance Theatre from 2004–2007. As a freelancer, she participated in productions by Jasmin Vardimon, Fin Walker, Michael Keegan-Dolan, Kirstine Kyhl Andersen, Christoph Winkler, Riccardo Buscarini, Leila McMillan, Janina Rajakangas, Ula Sickle, Marten Spangberg, and Tino Sehgal. Currently associated with Warsaw's experimental choreographers, directors, and dramaturgs, including Paweł Sakowicz (“Masakra” and “Drama”), Ramona Nagabczyńska (“Silenzio!”, “Anonymous Performers” and “I Love Ballet”), Anna Smolar, Anka Herbut, Marta Malikowska, Agata Siniarska, Renata Piotrowska, Magda Ptasznik. She was a Danceweb scholarship holder in 2016, mentored by Tino Sehgal and Louise Hojer. Simultaneously, she develops her interests in choreography, creating solo works, e.g., during a residency at Chez Bushwick in New York in 2016, as part of the performative program at Zachęta (SPA, 2017; Plac Małachowskiego, 2018), Solo Projekt Plus 2018 at Stary Browar, and as part of the cultural scholarship of the city of Lublin (2019 work-in-progress presentation at Wawerskie Centrum Kultury). In these works, she deepens her movement and choreographic practice, exploring the possibilities of body transformation and identity change, based on the perception of the body as a metaphor, instrument, tool, embodiment of the animating subject, communicating internal thoughts, feelings, and affects. The body is perceived as productive and creative, seen not as a fixed, unchanging entity but as a series of processes of continuous becoming, constituting, integrating, multiplying, striving to increase its potential. The event is co-financed by the City of Warsaw as part of the Komuna Warszawa – Social Cultural Institution project.