Alex Baczyński-Jenkins: Untitled (Holding Horizon)
A hypnotically sensual and haunting durational dance of desire, collectivity and queer gesture, built around the minimal box step.
Originally commissioned for the 2018 Frieze Artist Award, this performance takes place between visibility and invisibility, while the performers navigate the fluctuating dynamics of collectivity and desire.
Through sensual yet alienated gestures and the box step – a movement used in several social dances – synchronisation, pleasure and alliance coexist with disorientation, limitation and loss.
The dancers affect, and become affected by, the live mixed sound and light, while repetition and duration elicit shifting perceptions and associations. In this altered state, the box step becomes a vessel for a memory of a rave, a ghostly gathering, a celebration and mourning.
Artist and choreographer Alex Baczyński-Jenkins’ practice is concerned with the mediation of queer embodiment and relationality through choreographies of affect, empathy and intimacy.
Originally commissioned for the 2018 Frieze Artist Award, in partnership with Delfina Foundation, and presented as part of Frieze Projects, curated by Diana Campbell Betancourt. Developed as part of Kem’s residency at the Ujazdowski Castle Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw.
London presentations are generously supported by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and the Polish Cultural Institute. This event is part of UK/Poland Season 2025 organised by the British Council, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and the Polish Cultural Institute, financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Poland.
Need to know
Audiences are able to enter and leave the space throughout the performance, and are welcome to sit onstage or in the stalls, and change position during the show.
Strobe lighting and very loud music are used during this performance.
Choreography: Alex Baczyński-Jenkins
In collaboration with and performed by: Aaa Biczysko, Ewa Dziarnowska, Rafał Pierzyński, Ronald Alonso Berger and Sigrid Stigsdatter. Developed with: Aaa Biczysko, Ewa Dziarnowska, Rafał Pierzyński, Sigrid Stigsdatter, Tiran Normanson.
Production manager: Ola Knychalska
Live sound and light: Krzysztof Bagiński
Sound research: Jana Androsova, Krzysztof Bagiński, Tobias Koch and Filip Lech
Styling advice: Rafał Domagła
A production by Alex Baczyński-Jenkins Studio
Studio director: Andrea Rodrigo
Studio manager: Laura Cecilia Nicolás
Tour manager: Anna Posch
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