CUTE & AWKWARD performance emerges from the shadows. In it, “awkwardness” is not a failure, but vulnerability. “Cuteness” becomes a camouflage – a way to survive. Suspended between memory and fiction, the show moves freely between queer meeting spaces and the pop culture fantasy of somnambulism. The creators draw on cultural icons: Warsaw’s first gay cruising bar – “Phantom,” and the hypnotic, melancholic sound of Annie Lennox’s “No More I Love You’s.” Dance becomes an attempt to maintain the eternal creative immaturity of identity, which seeks answers to such questions as: How to reproduce the movement without appropriating it? How to stay connected without holding on by force? How to disappear and remain present at the same time?
In this solo act performed by two persons, the dancefloor becomes a magnetic drift zone. Bodies respond to invisible impulses, and movements develop slowly – as if recovered from someone else’s memory: tentative, shaky, yet precise in their delicacy. Performers dance together; while one of them is influenced by external forces, the other responds to them instinctively. Choreography becomes a flow of energy – a form of promenade on the polonaise, a return to the Polish national dance, and a gesture of being moved rather than moving. Invoking queer spaces becomes a form of symbolic resistance – a way of being close, moving through relationship rather than control.
CONCEPT, CHOREOGRAPHY, PERFORMANCE: Wojciech Grudziński
ARTISTIC COLLABORATION, PERFORMANCE: Lucas Lagomarsino
ARTISTIC COLLABORATION: Igor Cardellini
TEXT: Maria Magdalena Kozłowska
FINAL DIRECTION: Miguel Melgares
MUSIC: Wojtek Blecharz
LIGHT DESIGN: Jacqueline Sobiszewski
VIDEO: Rafał Dominik
FRASCATI PRODUCTION
Co-produced by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute
Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage