Still standing

“Still standing” is a performance that explores the body as a vehicle of memory and site-specific live sculpture. Using movement, choreography and storytelling it is aimed at encouraging empathy and care as possible attitudes towards what’s left by history – which directs us not only towards the past but also towards the present and the future. 

The performance is site-specific – happening in the proximity of KL Plaszow. It is also a dialogue with the historical choreography of an Israeli choreographer Noa Eshkol and the piece she prepared for the 10th anniversary of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1953 to be performed in the Lohamei Hageta’ot (Ghetto fighters) kibbutz. Through the physical, moving bodies of the performers, the performance provokes questions: how ephemeric forms can be used as commemorative strategies, especially in sites that can be called difficult heritage? What images do we create through movement, connection, composition? By placing the bodies in the space – with its layers of history – it creates images for the observers to interpret. By exploring relationships turned into physical action it creates a constant shift from the past to the present, from the collective to the personal. 

Presented at the beginning of Sukkot, it encourages us to gather outside in the green area around Plaszow. 

The choreography will be accompanied by an autonomous audio component (optional). If you would like to hear it please bring your phones + headphones. If it is a problem, we can help. Do you need equipment? Let us know info@festivalt.com

AUDIO

Idea: Aleksandra Janus, Weronika Pelczyńska

Lecture/voice: Aleksandra Janus

Performance: Monika Szpunar and Weronika Pelczyńska

Premiere 3.10 at 12:00

Performance 3.10 at 16:00

SPECIAL THANKS

In cooperation with Allianz Kulturstiftung.

This project was co-financed by the Dutch Jewish Humanitarian Fund.

We would like to thank the Czulent Association for providing us with space for rehearsals for the performance.