24.–26.8.2028
Age recommendation: 12 years
Duration 1 h 00 min
“Phoenix.Sun” by Kasia Wolińska is a dance solo about destruction, renewal, and transformation. Accompanied by live music and video art, the piece portrays the body in a constant cycle of creation and decay.
Inspired by the fire sculptures of Władysław Hasior, Kasia Wolińska’s new dance solo is born from the urge to set fires: The choreography becomes a meditation on a world in flames, a sacrificial rite of mourning and birthing. “Phoenix.Sun” is created in collaboration with composer Heinali and video artist Denis Kozerawski. Held together by live music and images, the dancing body on stage constantly cycles between emergence and disintegration. Rising from the ashes of those annihilated and born in flames, the work invites the audience to gaze into the blaze and summon beauty, terror, and transformation.
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Artist's Note by Kasia Wolińska
“Phoenix.Sun”is a solo choreography by Kasia Wolińska, developed in collaboration with musical composer and sound artist Heinali, video artist Denis Kozerawski, and dramaturge Jette Büchsenschütz. It is born from the urge to set fires—choreography becoming a meditation on, and proposition for, a world in flames, a sacrificial rite of mourning and birthing. In “Phoenix.Sun”, the dancing body rides cycles of emergence and disintegration, woven together with the movement of sound and image.
The project draws inspiration from the pyro-works of Polish artist Władysław Hasior, appeasing the ghosts of burning birds he saw falling from war-torn skies. It unfolds through the compositional and religious visions of German mystic Hildegard von Bingen, who, under the inspiration of the Spirit, incanted viriditas—a moist fire redeeming and kindling new life, a burning heart of self-sacrifice and rebirth. The choreography rises from the ashes of those annihilated and born in flames, it is a solar dreaming, inviting the audience to look into the blaze—an invocation of beauty and terror, and a spark of transformation.
Co-production Tanz im August / HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Studio Hrdinů, German-Czech Future Fund, Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Polish Institute Berlin, Culture Moves Europe, Festiwal Ciało/Umysł, Narodowy Instytut Muzyki i Tańca, Miasto Stoleczne Warszawa
Supported by Im_flieger, Bears in the Park / Residency programme, Lokomotiva Skopje, Stanica Belgrade, Polka Dot Foundation, Gdański Archipelag Kultury
Funded by European Union
In cooperation with Kultur Büro Elisabeth
from 20:00 to 21:00 St. Elisabeth-Kirche
from 18:00 to 19:00 St. Elisabeth-Kirche
from 18:00 to 19:00 St. Elisabeth-Kirche
The St. Elisabeth Kirche is accessible via a wheelchair ramp on the right-hand side. There is an accessible toilet on the ground floor of Villa Elisabeth.
