Programme by Teatro Municipal do Porto and Galeria Municipal do Porto.
Presentation within the scope of Fogo Fátuo.
Alex Baczyński-Jenkins
Until a thousand roses bloom (with Warsaw in the background)
October
2025
Sun
26
Sinopse
Until a thousand roses bloom (with Warsaw in the background) engages with the potential of desire, eroticism, sensuality, and touch. A choreography composed of gestures of erotic charge that might recall situations between friends, lovers, strangers. Bodies assemble in relations that never settle, always becoming, imbued with a sense of queer futurity. The work includes a billowing, suspended red fabric, a prop for burlesque performances, bringing to the foreground sensuality and reflecting on the ephemerality of queer gestures. The repetition of Urzula Sipinska’s 1971 titular ballad saturates the space with a nostalgia not for the past but for what remains possible. What is being cruised here is desire and eroticism itself.
This is a durational performance, where audience is free to move around, enter and exit the room.
This is a durational performance, where audience is free to move around, enter and exit the room.
Info sobre horário e bilhetes
Sun
26.10
16:00
Galeria Municipal do PortoFirst Floor
Aditional info
- Price
Free admission
- Duration
3h
- Age rating
To be defined by CCE
Acessibilidades do espetáculo
Accessible to wheelchair users
Author's bio text
Alex Baczynski-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
In collaboration with and performed by
Aaa Biczysko, Billy Morgan, Ewa Dziarnowska, Filipka Rutkowska, Jose Funnel, Rafal Pierzynski, Katarzyna Szugajew
Set design
Alex Baczyński-Jenkins in collaboration with Ma?gorzata Nawrocka
Live sound
Krzysztof Baginski
Sound research
Filip Lech, DUNNO Recordings
Originally commissioned and produced by
Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw, 2018
- A production by
ABJ Studio
Studio director
Andrea Rodrigo
Studio manager
Laura Cecilia Nicolás
Tour manager
Anna Posch
Previous presentations include
Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw (2018); Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland, as part of Alex Baczynski-Jenkins’ solo exhibition Such Feeling (2019)