About this event
When
Sat 17th Oct - Sun 18th Oct 2026
3:00pm & 1:00pm
Price
£14.40 - £48
Duration
3 hours
Booking Info
Suitable for ages 18+, contains flashing lights, loud bangs, loud music, nudity and sexual content
This resting patience by Ewa Dziarnowska. Photography by Spyros Rennt
UK Premiere
Part ghostly repository of unconsumed sensuality, an installative kinetic fadeout, part somatic (strip)tease, This resting, patience addresses attraction, voluntary objectification, proximity and the aesthetics of bareness.
Employing an experimental format, it upsets the passivity of installation and the time-delineation and dramaturgical resolution of performance and steps away from the tradition of viewing dance as an alienated spectacle to instead emphasize its immanent sociability.
In its devotion to the body, This resting, patience proposes sensuousness and dancing as timeless and democratically available technologies of undoing the world and projecting the continuous present into a future that lasts, quintessentially tender, infatuated, attentive.
“This resting, patience is one of those rare shows that make you feel like the first time you’re seeing dance… [it] brushes off all memories and brings back the old-forgotten feeling of falling in love.”
This performance is presented by Fabric and Fierce Festival as part of THIS IS DANCE
THIS IS DANCE is an international season of dance in Birmingham presented in partnership with Fabric, Birmingham Hippodrome, Birmingham Rep, Fierce Festival, Midlands Arts Centre and Sampad Arts, bringing exceptional dance from both across the globe and the local community.
