Premiere of choreographic spectacle “Malign Junction (Goodbye, Berlin)” by Alexa Baczyński-Jenkins

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.

After captivating Viennese audiences with the mesmerising work Untitled (Holding Horizon), Baczyński-Jenkins returns to Tanzquartier for a world premiere. 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 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. 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.
Credits

Choreography Alex Baczyński-Jenkins Collaboration, performance Aaron Ratajczyk, Elvan Tekin, Samuel F. Pereira, Shade Theret, Mickey Mahar Live sound Krzysztof Bagiński Sound contributions Jasia Rabiej Light design Jacqueline Sobiszewski LED light design Emilio Cordero Checa Set design Société Vide Styling Christian Stemmler Styling assistant Sebastián Ascencio Dramaturgical research Sebastjan Brank, Andrea Rodrigo, Carlos Manuel Oliveira Choreographic assistant Thibault Lac Studio director Andrea Rodrigo Studio manager Laura Cecilia Nicolás Production Darcey Bennett Tour manager Anna Posch, Darcey Bennett – A production by ABJ Studio, co-produced by Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels, Tanzquartier Wien, Festival d’Automne à Paris, deSingel, Antwerp, Arsenic, Lausanne, PACT Zollverein, Essen, Teatro Municipal do Porto, MDT Stockholm, Instytut Adama Mickiewicza. Developed with the Gropius Bau studio programme.