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CUTE & AWKWARD

Wojciech Grudziński / Frascati Producties
Mon 8 Dec ’25 - Fri 12 Dec ’25
Awkwardness is not failure but sensitivity. Cuteness is camouflage, a way to survive.
Mon 8 Dec ’25
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Fri 12 Dec ’25

CUTE & AWKWARD emerges from the shadow of the phantom and the lunatic. Suspended between memory and fiction, it plays around queer meeting places and a pop-cultural dream of sleepwalking.

In this solo performed by two, the dance floor becomes a zone of magnetic drift. Bodies respond to invisible forces. Movements unfold slowly, as if remembered by someone else - uncertain, unbalanced, and yet precise in their hesitation. This choreography is a passage of energy - a kind of promenade on Polonaise, revisiting a Polish national dance. An act of being moved rather than moving. 

How does one reenact without claiming ownership of movement? 
How do we stay in touch without holding on? 
How can we vanish and, at once, remain?

Taking as cultural references Warsaw’s first gay cruising bar in post-communist Poland, named Fantom, and the haunted, lunatic echo of desire and loss in Annie Lennox’s ‘No More “I Love You’s’, this sleepwalking dance is an attempt to maintain a permanent immaturity of identity. Performers dance together, embody a phantom, and in doing so offer a political gesture. The cruising body is moved by external forces, and the lunatic responds to them through instinct. Recalling queer gathering spaces here is a form of symbolic resistance, a way of staying close, moving with proximity rather than control. 

CUTE & AKWARD appears as a twin sister to Wojciech's previous performance THREESOME. After working with the biographies of three legendary dancers (Stanisław Szymański, Wojciech Wiesiołłowski, and Gerard Wilk) CUTE & AKWARD looks at similar issues but seen through different bodies and perspectives. A tender investigation into phantomhood and the act of sleepwalking. 

  • Première: Wed Dec 10th 20:00
  • Language: English

Credits

concept, choreography, performance Wojciech Grudziński artistic collaboration, performance Lucas Lagomarsino artistic collaboration Igor Cardellini final direction Miguel Melgares text Maria Magdalena Kozłowska video, set design Rafał Dominik light design Jacqueline Sobiszewski music, sound Wojtek Blecharz co-produced by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage

              

The press about Wojciech Grudziński

“A playful, baroque and weird investigation into bowing […] Beautiful and intense. […] we want to see more from this maker.” Theaterkrant over BOW A STUDY

About Wojciech Grudziński

Wojciech Grudziński (1991) is a Polish artist, choreographer and dancer based in Amsterdam. His work investigates topics such as the power dynamics that exist (both implicitly and explicitly) within theatre and dance. Wojciech studied dance at a Ballet School in Warsaw and CODARTS in Rotterdam, and obtained his master’s from DAS Theatre in Amsterdam (2021-2023). 

During his master’s studies, he developed BOW A STUDY (2024), a poetic and physical exploration of the ambiguity of bowing. The performance premiered in February 2024 at Frascati Producties, in co-production with DAS Theatre. As part of the Frascati Residency Programme, Wojciech created the dance performance Threesome in March 2024. In December of the same year, he returned to Frascati with the fully developed version THREESOME, in which he portrays three legendary Polish ballet dancers from the 1960s to the 1990s, whose legacies have gradually faded over time, overshadowed by myths and legends.

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