Foto: Bartek Warzecha
I remember you so vividly
and now you are not here
I feel you bigger than ever
your skin
your hands
your touch
Romance is a play about a woman
She is dressed in velvet green
and holds,
neatly wedged
and pulled close beside her
a grey mannequin
a stuffed puppet
who she breathes life into,
talks, walks, flirts
and argues with
Who is real?
Who is not?
It is a unique play
A Precise
Accurate
Unpicking of our tendencies towards addiction
That is more collectively relevant than queer
It is about what happens when you hit the bottom
Do you make me fall or do I?
In this dance we are reminded to…
Imagine pleasure
The ability to animate is important
Imagine pleasure, she says to her puppet,
like the dead the sea
To feel so much was never the prize draw
Imagine pleasure
Imagine pleasure
and she goes on
….animating the absence
that you havn’t been able to own
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Rosalind Holgate Smith is a Dancer, Choreographer and Contact Improviser who is currently investigating touch as an encounter with Otherness within the context of a performance as practice based PhD.
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»Romance/ Romans«, Natalia Sakowicz, Polen
Regie, Spiel Natalia Sakowicz/ Text Zuzanna Bojda/ Musik Maciej Cempura/ Puppe Olga Ryl-Krystianowska/ Beratung Puppenführung Iza Szostak/ Licht Maciej Iwańczyk/ Englische Übersetzung Adam Chrupczak/ Deutsche Übersetzung Antonina Brühl/ Einspielung Übertitel Katrin Gellrich/ Gefördert von Die Produktion entstand im Rahmen des Stipendiums »Young Poland« des Ministeriums für Kultur, Nationales Erbe und Sport und im Rahmen des Künstlerischen Stipendiums des Marschalls der Woiwodschaft Podlachien/ Unterstützt von Aleksander Zelwerowicz Nationalakademie der Darstellenden Künste Warschau, Abteilung Puppenspielkunst Białystok, Teatr Ochoty Warschau
