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Programme by Teatro Municipal do Porto and Galeria Municipal do Porto

Alex Baczyński-Jenkins

Malign Junction (Goodbye, Berlin)

October

2025

national premiere

Thu
23
Fri
24

Sinopse

The intricacies of queer life, desire and collectivity play a significant role in Alex Baczyński-Jenkins’ artistic practice. Through choreographic methods, he explores the subtle nuances of interdependence and suspended time. His distinctive embodied vocabulary and minimal, tactile visuality swerve from the most fleeting gesture to the infrastructure of the performance context. His new group piece Malign Junction (Goodbye, Berlin) is dedicated to the theme of finitude. A dynamic dance navigates the tension between ecstatic abandon, the erotic dissolution of boundaries, the grand finale, horror and dissociation, all while seeking to capture the ambivalent emotional experience of the ending: intense and disconnected. — Alex Baczyński-Jenkins

affection

desire

collectivity

queer

gesture

Color photograph of a scene. Featured is a performer wearing gray pants and a silver top, dancing.

© Dirk Rose

Info sobre horário e bilhetes

Thu

23.10

19:30

Fri

24.10

19:30

RivoliStage Grand Auditorium

tickets

Aditional info

  • Price 
    9€
  • Duration
    1h30
  • Age rating
    12+

Acessibilidades do espetáculo

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Author's bio text

Alex Baczyński-Jenkins is an artist and choreographer engaging with queer affect, embodiment and relationality. Through gesture, collectivity, touch and sensuality, his practice unfolds structures and politics of desire. Relationality is present in the dialogical ways in which the work is developed and performed as well as in the materials and poetics it invokes. This includes tracing relations between sensation and sociality, embodied expression and alienation, the textures of everyday experience, the utopian and latent queer histories. He approaches choreography as a way of reflecting on the matter of feeling, perception and collective emergence, while indulging in other ways of experiencing memory, time and change. He is co-founder of Kem, a Warsaw based queer feminist collective focused on choreography, performance and sound at the interface with social practice. Through various experimental formats and community building, Kem engages in critical intimacy and queer pleasure.

Ficha Técnica

  • Choreography 
    Alex Baczyński-Jenkins

    Originally made in collaboration with and performed by 
    Aaron Ratajczyk, Elvan Tekin, Samuel F. Pereira, Shade Théret, Mickey Mahar, Aaa Biczysko 

    This iteration in collaboration with and performed by 
    Aaron Ratajczyk, Elvan Tekin, Samuel F. Pereira, Shade Théret, Mickey Mahar 

    Live sound 
    Krzysztof Bagiński 

    Sound contributions 
    Jasia Rabiej 

    Light design 
    Jacqueline Sobiszewski 

    Set design 
    Société Vide
     

    Styling 
    Christian Stemmler 

    Assistant styling 
    Sebastián Ascencio 

    Dramaturgical research 
    Sebastjan Brank, Andrea Rodrigo, Carlos Manuel Oliveira 

    Choreographic support 
    Thibault Lac 

  • Studio direction 
    Andrea Rodrigo 

    Studio management 
    Laura Cecilia Nicolás 

    Production 
    Darcey Bennett  

    Tour management 

    Anna Posch 

     
    Produced by 
    ABJ Studio  

    Co-produced by 
    Teatro Municipal do Porto, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Tanzquartier Wien, Festival d’Automne à Paris, De Singel, Arsenic, PACT ZollvereinMDT Moderna Dansteatern, Instytut Adama Mickiewicza 

    Supported by 
    Santarcangelo Festival 

    Developed with 
    Gropius Bau Studio Programme 

    Thank you to 
    Nora-Swantje Almes, Jad Salfiti, Kasia Wlaszczyk, Cathal Sheerin, Jeremy Wade, Hugo Hectus, Melanie Jame Wolf, Matthias Moore, Eugene Yui Nam Cheung 

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