All that I left behind is here
Imagine a photo of a family of four. Beginning of the 90s, in early spring. They are standing next to each other on the soon-to-be-green bank of the Oder River, looking into the camera. They are all wearing the same looking, brand-new windbreaker jackets in colours blending into the landscape of a dirty urban spring – grey for the father, purple for the mother, red-blue and gray-brown for the sons. All seem happy, except for the youngest son – his sour face clearly expresses embarrassment and disappointment as if he would rather be somewhere else.
Romuald Krężel’s new solo draws from his personal and artistic experience. By revisiting his very first dance experience: a ballroom dance class – the only one offered for free in his primary school, he aims to focus on various aspects of classism in the context of the performing arts. By relearning and critically evoking movements, steps, poses and different styles of Cha-Cha-Cha, rumba, jive, etc, he seeks to investigate his social background and its relation to his current choreographic practice. The ghostly figures, post-punk music and aesthetics support him in this return to his past, culminating in an emotional conversation with the artist’s mother about class, body, work, shame and dance.
All that I left behind is here
PREMIERE & GUEST PERFORMANCES
PREMIERE:
2 June 2023 Uferstudios, Berlin
3 June 2023 Uferstudios, Berlin
4 June 2023 Uferstudios, Berlin
GUEST PERFORMANCES:
16 September 2023 HELLERAU, Dresden
17 September 2023 HELLERAU, Dresden
29 October 2024 KONDENZ Festival, Belgrade
15 March 2025 Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau, Dresden
REVIVAL / WIEDERAUFNAHME:
16 January 2025 Uferstudios, Berlin
17 January 2025 Uferstudios, Berlin
CREDITS
CONCEPT, CHOREOGRAPHY & PERFORMANCE:
Romuald Krężel
SPECIAL GUEST: Irena Krężel
DRAMATURGY: Agata Siniarska
RESEARCH SUPPORT: Tamara Antonijević
COSTUME: Maldoror
TECHNICAL DIRECTION, LIGHT DESIGN: Patrick Faurot
SOUND DESIGN & MUSIC DIRECTION: Miguel Caldas
SOUND DESIGN ASSISTANT: Zach Hart
ARTISTIC ASSISTANT & DESIGN: Louis F. Baca V.
PRESS WORK: Apricot Productions
AUDIO DESCRIPTION: Emmilou Roessling, Silja Korn
PRODUCTION: Anna Konrad
ARTISTIC SUPPORT: Carolina Mendonça and
René Alejandro Huari Mateus
PHOTO: Marina Hoppmann and Dorothea Tuch
TEASER: Andrea Keiz
FUNDED BY
"All that I left behind is here" is a production by Romuald Krężel in co-production with Uferstudios in Berlin and HELLERAU – European Centre for the Arts in Dresden.
Funded as part of the Alliance of International Production Houses by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds. Supported by the Residency Program funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Station - Service for Contemporary Dance in Belgrade/Serbia, Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart. The research process supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media within the program NEUSTART KULTUR. With the friendly support of Theaterhaus Berlin Mitte.
Guest performances in Belgrade and Warsaw were supported by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. Guest performance in Belgrade was also supported by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland and the NATIONALES PERFORMANCE NETZ International Guest Performance Fund for Dance, which is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
The revival supported by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.
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