Choreography and performance: Paweł Sakowicz
Dramaturgy: Mateusz Szymanówka
Music: Indecorum
Costume: Doom 3k
Performed in English.
There will be a post-show discussion with Paweł Sakowicz
It is not entirely clear if Fred Herko planned to finish his intimate performance with a suicide death. He took a bath, turned on Mozart’s Coronation Mass and began to dance naked in his friend’s living room. He approached an open window several times. When Sanctus resounded, he ran and jumped out the window of the apartment on the fifth floor of New York’s Cornelia Street. Ballet dancers are said to believe they can fly. And indeed, suspended for a second in a jump, they do.
Production: MAAT Festival, Scena Tańca Studio, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art
Jumpcore belongs to the collection of the Zachęta – National Gallery of Art
Co-Presented by the Polish Cultural Institute
Part of Rehearsal for Truth International Theater Festival honoring Václav Havel, produced by the Václav Havel Center and the Bohemian Benevolent and Literary Association.
About
Paweł Sakowicz is a choreographer and dancer. Paweł creates his own choreographic performances, but often also collaborates with theatre and film directors. His main artistic interests are the history of dance and the issues of cultural appropriation in choreography. Pawel’s works include: “Jumpcore”, (Zachęta - National Gallery of Art, Aerowaves Twenty19), “Masakra” (Nowy Teatr in Warsaw), “Drama” (Body/Mind Festival), “Amando” (National Museum in Warsaw), “Imperial” (Komuna Warszawa), “Fatamorgana” (Studio Hrdinu in Prague), ”Boa” (Stary National Theatre in Kraków) and a sound installation “VORTEX” (Theatre Institute in Warsaw). They have been presented in three editions of the Polish Dance Platform, at La Biennale de danse du Val-de-Marne, Muzeum Susch, Tramway Glasgow, Santarcangelo Festival, Zürcher Theater Spektakel, Divine Comedy Festival, Czech Dance Platform, NYU Skirball in New York and CAC New Orleans, among others. Paweł has worked with Nowy Teatr in Warsaw, TR Warszawa, National Stary Theatre in Krakow, Schauspiel Hannover, Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, Lithuanian National Drama Theatre in Vilnius, Dailes Teatris in Riga and Münchner Kammerspiele.
ABOUT THE 2024 REHEARSAL FOR TRUTH INTERNATIONAL THEATER FESTIVAL
Rehearsal for Truth International Theater Festival, honoring Václav Havel, is a showcase of contemporary European theater organized each year in New York City. Conceived in 2017 as a shared endeavor of the Václav Havel Center (VHC) and Bohemian Benevolent and Literary Association (BBLA), the festival honors the legacy of Czech playwright, dissident and political thinker Vaclav Havel.
Each edition of Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival addresses current sociopolitical trends in Central and Eastern Europe, offering New York audiences a unique opportunity to witness the region’s theatrical zeitgeist.
The program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. The festival is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.