HEAVY WEIGHT HOLDING BODY

In Heavy Weight Holding Body, a site-specific dance performance, Karol Tyminski cruises the city, exploring the intimate affinity between a human being and the surrounding architecture, rendering visible the latent erotism and its pulsations. His dance is a perpetual negotiation between one’s own desires and what is welcomed in public spaces. At the risk of being exposed, he moves on the brink of culturally imposed norms in a cross-matter sexual encounter. As the dance unfolds, Tyminski not only perverts the dominant understanding of sexuality and its presence in the public sphere but also leads the audience towards the experience of the vibrancy of urban structures. Unsuspecting passersby temporarily join the choreography, while the audience looks on as voyeurs from a distance that keeps them hidden in plain sight, listening simultaneously to the voice of Tyminski that reaches them through headphones - creating complicity, a secret alliance into a parallel state

choreography. dance Karol Tyminski music Marc Lohr text Karol Tyminski movement research Karol Tyminski, Ewa Dziarnowska, Antonia Steffens and Juan Pablo Camara artistic advice Diego Agulló, Alice Chauchat, Jen Rosenblit Costume. Nicolas Navarro Rueda Production Manager. Saskia Schoenmaker, Lianne Mol photography Agustin Farias rehearsal assistant Evan Loxton funded by the NATIONAL SERVICE NETWORK – STEPPING OUT, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner