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ABOUT
ABOUT
A carpet of deep ultramarine blue, a small audience seated onstage within arm’s reach of the dancers, and Dionne Warwick’s “What the World Needs Now” playing on a loop that never quite resolves. For three hours, Ewa Dziarnowska and Leah Marojević draw together and pull apart, fall into step and out of it, testing and tending in turn. The dance is slow and unafraid of its own duration, building its charge by holding to one thing until it changes.
From one of Europe’s most striking younger choreographers, the piece offers something few dance works do: no stage, only proximity. Watching stops being a private act and becomes something reciprocal, something the two dancers can feel taking place. It turns desire, nearness, and the patience intimacy asks into something felt rather than observed.
ADVISORY
Seating is limited and on stage. Audience members may enter and exit freely throughout the performance and are welcome to move within the space. The performance includes partial nudity.
RUN TIME
3 hours
Three reasons to go
Three reasons to go
GET UP CLOSE – A rare chance to sit onstage with the performers, inside the dance rather than in front of it.
GET PERSONAL – A limited-capacity encounter with one of the most talked-about younger voices in European contemporary dance.
BE MESMERIZED – A quiet, hypnotic opening to the season, for audiences willing to slow down and watch attention become physical.
Performance Dates + Times
Performance Dates + Times
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Thursday Oct 17:30 PMOpening Night
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Friday Oct 27:30 PM
THE ARTISTS
THE ARTISTS
Ewa Dziarnowska
Ewa Dziarnowska is a Polish dancer and choreographer based in Berlin and working internationally. Her practice centers on improvisation and embodied knowledge, attending to sensation, rhythm, and relation rather than narrative or fixed form. This resting, patience premiered at Tanztage Berlin at Sophiensæle in January 2024 and has since traveled across Europe, drawing particular attention after its presentation at the Santarcangelo Festival in Italy. She is widely regarded as one of the more compelling voices of the younger generation of Polish performance artists.
Leah Marojević
Leah Marojević is a performer, choreographer, and dramaturg whose collaborators include Theo Clinkard, Jefta van Dinther, Colette Sadler, and Candoco Dance Company, and who has received choreographic commissions from Sydney Dance Company and London Contemporary Dance School.
Krzysztof Bagiński
Krzysztof Bagiński is an artist and organizer from Poland. He is a co-curator of W Brzask (At Dawn), a series of experimental music shows in Warsaw. As a sound artist, he works closely with choreography and performance.
Jacqueline Sobiszewski
Jacqueline Sobiszewski – visual artist, works with light, video, film and photography. Born and raised in the Netherlands. Studied at the Cinematography Department of the State Higher School of Film, Television and Theater in Łódź.
Combining various techniques, always looking for a new visual language in various fields of art, cooperating with directors, musicians, choreographers and individually. Her work has been shown in NYC,Los Angeles, Sydney, London, Paris, Vienna, Madrid, Lisbon, Sao Paulo. She was awarded at the 15th International Small Scene Theater Festival in Rijeka, Croatia for light direction in Medea ( awarded with the Nestroy Preis ) by Grzegorz Jarzyna and received a distinction for lighting design at The Divine Comedy International Theater Festival “for creating a coherent landscape in which individuality manifests itself through a powerful emotional charge
CREATIVE CREDITS
CREATIVE CREDITS
By: Ewa Dziarnowska
With: Leah Marojević
Sound: Krzysztof Bagiński
Lighting: Jacqueline Sobiszewski
Costumes / Styling: Nico Navarro Rueda,
Franziska Acksel
Dramaturgical support: Jette Büchsenschütz
Artistic Dialogue: Suvi Kemppainen
Photos: Spyros Rennt
Video documentation: Margarita Maximova
Special thanks to: Maciej Sado
Premiere: 13 January 2024 at the Tanztage Festival, Sophiensæle, Berlin
A production by Ewa Dziarnowska in co-production with Sophiensæle. The 33rd edition of Tanztage Berlin is a production by Sophiensæle. Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion and the Capital Cultural Fund (HKF). With the kind support of Tanzfabrik Berlin e. V., Theaterhaus Berlin Mitte.
GALLERY
GALLERY
Photo by Spyros Rennt
Photo by Spyros Rennt
Photo by Spyros Rennt
BEYOND THE STAGE
BEYOND THE STAGE
Study Guides
Ewa Dziarnowska: This resting, patience
Prep School: This Resting, Patience
PRESS
PRESS
SUPPORT
SUPPORT
NYU Skirball’s programs are made possible in part with support from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; and the Howard Gilman Foundation; Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels; Culture Ireland; The Shubert Foundation; Collins Building Services; General Delegation of the Government of Flanders to the USA; Goethe Institut New York with support from the Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany; Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation; Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation; New England Foundation for the Arts; Harkness Foundation for Dance; and Marta Heflin Foundation; as well as our valued donors through memberships, commissioning, and Allies for Arts Access Fund support.
This project is made possible in part with support from the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Polish Cultural Institute, and Harkness Foundation for Dance.
