KISS (extended). Kasia Wolińska

Kasia Wolińska’s Kiss is intrinsically related to Prince’s posthumously released album Piano & a Microphone 1983. The choreography, which premiered in 2022 at Radialsystem Berlin, presents dance as an autonomous language and an emancipatory way of expressing the fact of being alive. The artist plays around with dance techniques, movement qualities between bodies and relations between bodies in order to regain the healing potential and musicality of dance and to retrieve the ability to collectively experience joy.

To celebrate the opening of the new MSN, the choreographer – alongside dancers Julek Kreutzer and Kasia Ustowska-Gmerek – invites everyone who would like to join in the work in process. For four days, four hours a day (28-31 October, from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.) everyone interested can join the open practice and do so to different degrees of involvement:

•       full-time, active participation on all or selected rehearsal days and voluntary and active participation in the act on the final day (31 October, 7 p.m.);

•       participation in warm-ups – from Monday to Wednesday (28-30 October, from 4 p.m to 5 p.m.);

•       spontaneous participation in a movement practice for any amount of time and at any given moment of the rehearsal;

•       free observation of the process for

•       presence in the space occupied by the rehearsal for the purpose of relaxation or listening to music

•       watching the act performed on Thursday, 31 October at 7 p.m.

No previous dance experience is required, every participant joins the process to the extent of their abilities and can always sit down and relax or withdraw from dance to observation.

The material to work with combines different kinds of steps, gestures and movements originating in hip-hop dance, ballet, tap dancing, jazz, disco and modern dance, which have been arranged into sequences to be performed in relation to the music from Prince’s album.

The choreographer embraces caring and responsible approach to participants, offering a lot of learning but also a lot of fun and pleasure to be had from dancing together.

If you are interested in taking part, please fill out the following form: https://forms.gle/Dn14VUGUyzY6ujrQ9

For questions, please email Magdalena Komornicka at: magdalena.komornicka@artmuseum.pl

The event is part of the opening’s Choreographic Programme. With more than twenty shows, the audience will be offered an opportunity to witness diverse artistic strategies and a multitude of formal takes. The programme includes works in progress, dance acts and choreographic installations, with spectacular group productions sharing space with intimate solo activities.