STORM, PAWEŁ SAKOWICZ
Saturday 28th June 2025
Palazzo Contarini Polignac
Dorsoduro 874, 30123 Venice
Storm is a 30-minute performance choreographed and performed by Paweł Sakowicz, exploring desire, self-reflection, and hip motorics.
Combining subtle grace and sculptural tension, Storm centres on the body as a site of seduction. Sakowicz’s choreography unfolds with calculated precision — each gesture is shaped through a deep engagement with physical memory and the aesthetics of self-reflection. At the core of the work is an intimate interplay between performance and perception, as the dancer moves with the embodied knowledge of someone who has long rehearsed in front of a mirror, circling his hips back and forth.
With Storm, Sakowicz offers a compelling portrait of transformation through movement, in which the body becomes both the subject and object of its gaze — shifting between control and abandon, strength and exposure.
The performance is accompanied by an original score by Agnė Matulevičiūtė and costuming by Elena Marija Veleckaitė. His performance in Venice will be the second public showing of the work, following its recent premiere at Sapieha Palace in Vilnius.
Written by Dobromila Blaszczyk
Choreography and performance: Paweł Sakowicz
Music: Agnė Matulevičiūtė
Costume: Elena Marija Veleckaitė
Production: Sapieha Palace, Vilnius
Co-produced by Pavilion of Dance and other Performing Arts - new branch of Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.
The performance Storm is Co-organized by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute as part of the international cultural program of the Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union 2025
Paweł Sakowicz is a choreographer and dancer whose work critically engages with the history of dance, cultural appropriation, and the construction of physical and symbolic gestures on stage. He explores choreography as a tool for aesthetic inquiry, often blurring the boundaries between high art and pop culture, fiction and historical reconstruction.
His performances include Jumpcore (Zachęta – National Gallery of Art), Masakra (Nowy Teatr, Warsaw), Amando(National Museum in Warsaw), Imperial (Komuna Warszawa), Fatamorgana (Studio Hrdinu, Prague), Boa (National Stary Theatre, Kraków), and Laguna (TR Warszawa). His work has been presented at numerous international venues and festivals, including Divine Comedy Festival, Santarcangelo Festival, Zürcher Theater Spektakel, Sirenos Festival, La Biennale de danse du Val-de-Marne, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Muzeum Susch, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Tramway Glasgow, CAC New Orleans, NYU Skirball, and Bohemian National Hall in New York.
This project is co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland from the Culture Promotion Fund.
Cultural event of the Polish presidency of the Council of the EU.
