Alex Baczyński-Jenkins: Unending love, or love dies, on repeat like it’s endless

Unending love, or love dies, on repeat like it’s endless is a choreography that reflects on the relations of desire, dance, love (as communality), loss and time. The work dwells in the states of perception at the threshold of mourning, hope and celebration. A radiant listening that stems from grief and contends with witnessing the state of transit from life to death. Meanings and perceptions, swell, undo and fragment while the choreography undertakes the invention of micro-grammars of connection. The piece manifests relational forms of being-with and for one another, in spite of and in resistance to overwhelming architectures of violence. The work is performed in various constellations, between one to four performers.

Unending love, or love dies, on repeat like it’s endless forms part of a new edition of Fogo Fátuo entirely dedicated to the work of Alex Baczyński-Jenkins.

The programme is presented by Galeria Municipal do Porto in partnership with Teatro Municipal do Porto.

Choreography: Alex Baczynski-Jenkins | The iteration at Galeria Municipal do Porto is performed by Aaa Bisczysko and Ronald Berger | Developed in collaboration with Aaa Biczysko, Arad Inbar, Bervely D. Renekouzou, Thomias Radin | Sound design and artistic advisor: Krzysztof Baginski | Sound contributions: Zoi Michailova | Light design: Jacqueline Sobiszewski | Dramaturgy: Andrea Rodrigo | Sound live: Krzysztof Baginski | Set design assitance: Anna Posch | Set design assitance: Anna Posch | Poem: Ezra Green | Acknowledgements: Dareen Abbas, Thibault Lac | Executive producer: Holly Shuttleworth | Studio director: Andrea Rodrigo | Studio manager: Laura Cecila Nicolás | Tour manager: Anna Pasch

A production by Alex Baczynski-Jenskins Studio, co-produced by De Singel — International Arts Centre, Arsenic — Centre d’art scénique contemporain, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, ANTI — Contemporary Art Festival, Kunstverein Düsseldorf, Ludwig Forum for International Art, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Klosterruine Berlin, Disappearing Berlin — Schinkel Pavillon. Developed with the generous support of a residency at Callie’s. Supported by Nationales Performance Nez (NPN) — Coproduction Fund for Dance, which is funded by the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. The iteration at the Sophiensaele is funded by the Berin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion

Photographs by Mariana Silva