Fierce Festival: Threesome
–About Fierce Festival: Threesome
In Threesome, Wojciech Grudzinski 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.
About the Artist: Wojciech Grudziński
Wojciech Grudziński is a choreographer and dancer. He graduated from the Roman Turczynowicz Ballet School in Warsaw and completed a BA in Contemporary Dance at Codarts Rotterdam. In 2023, he obtained a Master’s degree from DAS Graduate School at the Academy of Theatre and Dance, Amsterdam University of the Arts. In 2024, he was an artist-in-residence at the Cité internationale des arts x CN D in Paris, where he developed Threesome/Trzy. In 2025, he received the Polityka Passport Award in the Stage category. He is an associated artist with Frascati Producties in Amsterdam.
Grudziński has received scholarships from Poland’s Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (2017, 2021), the City of Warsaw (2021), and Dutch foundations including Schuurman Schimmel-van Outeren Stichting (2012/2013) and Stichting Bekker-la Bastide-Fonds (2013). In 2018, he won a competition for a study visit to Movement Research at Judson Church in New York, organized in cooperation with the Global Practice Sharing (GPS) programme, Art Stations Foundation and the National Institute of Music and Dance.
Grudziński has collaborated with, among others, Dries Verhoeven (The NarcoSexuals, SPRING Performing Arts Festival), Igor Cardellini and Tomas Gonzalez (2100, Palazzo Trevisan degli Ulivi, Venice), Marta Ziółek (Seans z Pamelą, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw), Ula Sickle (Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw), Ben J. Riepe (CREATURE, Goethe-Institut, Kraków), Katarzyna Kalwat (Purification, Łaźnia Nowa Theatre, Kraków) and Hana Umeda (Sada Yakko, Komuna Warszawa Theatre)
Co-Presented by Fierce Festival and The Adam Mickiewicz Institute
With support from Midlands Arts Centre
Co-financed by the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage
Supported using public funding by Arts Council England
This show is part of THIS IS DANCE, an international season of dance in Birmingham presented in partnership with FABRIC, Birmingham Hippodrome, Birmingham Rep, Fierce Festival, MAC and Sampad Arts.
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