Part ghostly repository of unconsumed sensuality, an installative kinetic fadeout, part somatic (strip)tease, This resting, patience by Ewa Dziarnowska 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 emphasise 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.
Ewa Dziarnowska is a dancer and choreographer based in Berlin, working across performance, collaboration and research. Her recent projects – This resting, patience, A Room With a Better View and https://4677684728466.com – reflect her sustained inquiry into improvisation as both method and philosophy. Through attention to sensation, rhythm and relation, she investigates how movement can generate knowledge and resist the pressures of coherence and productivity. Her practice unfolds in real time, balancing precision and spontaneity while questioning the social and aesthetic frameworks through which dance is produced, witnessed and circulated.
Leah Marojević’s practice spans performance, choreography, teaching, dramaturgy, mentorship and support for other artists. Choreographic commissions include Pre-Professional Year, Sydney Dance Company (2019), London Contemporary Dance School Graduating Season (2020), Mass Hysteria Collective (2020) and Matilde Cerruti Quara, Jupiter Woods (2020). Leah collaborates regularly and has worked and performed for visual artists, companies and choreographers; Colette Sadler, Ola Maciejewska, Theo Clinkard, Jefta Van Dinther, Megan Rooney, Ewa Dziarnowska, Paulina Olowska, Emmilou Rößling, Sarah Browne, Sam Williams, Holly Blakey, Candoco Dance Company, Joe Moran among others. In 2019 Leah created The Elsewhen Series in collaboration with choreographer Theo Clinkard as well as having collaborated on the creations of commissioned works for Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch (2015), Danza Contemporanea de Cuba (2016) & Candoco Dance Company (2019) among others.
Krzysztof Bagiński is an artist and organiser 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, visual artist, works with light, video, film and photography. She was 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 New York, Los Angeles, Sydney, London, Paris, Vienna, Madrid, Lisbon, São Paulo.
by Ewa Dziarnowska
with Leah Marojević
sound Krzysztof Bagiński
light Jacqueline Sobiszewski
styling Nico Navarro Rueda, Franziska Acksel
dramaturgical support Jette Büchsenschütz
artistic dialogue Suvi Kemppainen
with thanks to Maciej Sado
a production by Ewa Dziarnowska
in co-production with Sophiensæle. The 33rd Tanztage Berlin are a production of 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
This resting, patience is in the programme of Short Theatre 2026 thanks to the support of Ambasciata della Repubblica di Polonia a Roma and Adam Mickiewicz Institute (IAM)
ph. Spyros Rennt