About this event
When
Wed 14th Oct - Thu 15th Oct 2026
7:30pm & 5:30pm
Price
£12 - £40
Duration
50 minutes
Booking Info
Age guidance: 18+ , contains nudity and strobe lighting
Image by Maurycy Stankiewicz
In Threesome, Wojciech Grudziński shares the dance space with spectral figures from the past as he grapple with their legacy.
In this exercise in phantasmagoric choreography, he goes cruising through the biographies of the legendary dancers Stanisław Szymański, Wojciech Wiesiołłowski, and Gerard Wilk. Brought up in post-war, communist Poland, two of them eventually emigrated, while one chose to stay in his native country.
How have their bodies been remembered? How did these bodies come to recognize their sensibility and express it on stage? How can these marginalized lives be reclaimed and embodied today? How do we construct an untamed, monstrous, illogical bodily archive of queer history without losing any of their uniqueness?
Threesome seeks to dispel the myths and rediscover their individual experience in a world that we were not part of. It is a hazy posthumous ballet, a repressed legacy, a reenactment, an act of somatic plunder and transformation.
Fierce says:
Dripping in sweat, sex, and memory, Wojciech invites us into the annals of queer Polish history and exhumes these figures with an intensely physical and utterly compelling performance.
This performance is presented in 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 Repertory Theatre, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Fierce Festival, Midlands Arts Centre and Sampad Arts, bringing exceptional dance from both across the globe and the local community.
