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Angelic Conversations continues Alex Baczyński-Jenkins’s exploration of the structures of desire. This work undertakes the relational conditions of devotion, grace, and ecstasy. Through movement, sound, light, and poetic text, the piece asks how choreography can become a practice of invocation, a means of communion, and a medium for an encounter between the corporeal and the incorporeal. Baczyński-Jenkins works with a historical and contemporary movement vocabulary that explores a spectrum between ecstasy and spirituality. In Angelic Conversations, he and three dancers explore the political and utopian potential inherent in the figure of the angel.

Alex Baczyński-Jenkins (1987, London, United Kingdom) is an artist and choreographer and cofounder of the Warsaw-based queer-feminist collective Kem. His work has been shown at institutions and exhibitions including Kunsthalle Basel; Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw; Chisenhale Gallery, London; the 58th Venice Biennale; Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, Zurich; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Swiss Institute, New York; Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź; and Liste Art Fair Basel. In 2018, he was awarded the Arts Foundation Award and the Frieze Artist Award. He lives in Berlin.

Commissioned by steirischer herbst ’26
Produced by steirischer herbst ’26 and ABJ Studio, coproduced by Kampnagel and Arsenic – Centre d’art scénique contemporain
Supported by NATIONALE PERFORMANCE NETZ – Coproduction Fund for Dance, which is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media

English with German translation
90 min.

Photo: Marc Domage