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The LIVE program of May edition of the Grand re Union project will be held on Friday, 14 May on Zoom platform under the title “Disrupting Discomfort – In Conversation With You”.

Being in discomfort is inherently… uncomfortable. Urges rapidly emerge to quell said discomfort. What about longer lasting discomforts, or discomforts which we don’t have the ability to simply dispel? Or discomforts resulting from a change in, or reduction of habituated comforts and freedoms, such as during this pandemic. Or the discomfort that comes with confronting long-standing social injustices? Change is not always comfortable, even when one is aware that the outcome could be beneficial personally, or even globally.

Maciej Kuźmińskiʼs latest work, the duo event horizon, qualified for the prestigious Rotterdam International Duet Choreography Competition (RIDCC). From 417 entries from 62 countries, 16 of the best duos have been selected to compete in the main program of the competition. Live presentations of the selected performances will take place from June 24–26 in Rotterdam and will be broadcast live.

RIDCC is currently one of the leading choreography competitions in the world, offering 11 awards, including production awards for Nederlands Dans Theater, Club Guy and Roni and Dutch National Ballet, and the XL prize of 100.000 Euro for production for Scapino Ballet Rotterdam.

Maciej Kuźmiński, together with the dancers – Monika Witkowska and Omar Karabulut, are the first Polish artists in the history of the RIDCC qualified for this competition.

The LIVE program of April edition of the Grand re Union project will be held on Saturday, 17 April on Zoom platform under the title “Interdependencies”. In the course of our online meetings we will have a look at where choreographic practices are situated. 

The April edition of the Grand Re Union will feature Marta Keil and Zeyno Pekünlü –  invited artists, activists and thinkers, who will tackle the notion of interdependence and propose expanding the territory of choreography and viewing it from a broader perspective. Together with Begüm Özden Fırat, Daniel Blanga Gubbay, Evrim Kavcar, Pirate Care (Valeria Graziano and Tomislav Medak), Agata Siniarska and Katarzyna Słoboda, they will investigate the interdependence as a reciprocal relation with other humans and more-than-humans. Together with the invited guests we will address both the complexity of the ecosystem we operate in on an everyday basis and the problematics of care and ambiguity of solidarity, two terms that are being constantly repeated in the current discourse in the arts field and beyond.