Residency of Wojciech Rybicki

hosted by PLACCC Festival

Participating countries:

  • Czechia
  • Hungary
  • Italy
  • Dance
  • Storytelling
  • Street Arts
© Pauline Ruther

Period

  • From 01-03-2026 to 30-11-2026
Generation #4

Website

Address

Budapest
Hungary

Project summary

'Forgotten Ballets from the East' is a nascent research-based and participatory performance by the Polish individual artist Wojciech Rybicki. The semi-documentary ballet uses the potentials of marking - a dancer’s act of practicing given choreography in reduced or simplified form - to explore intersystemic feeling of stagnation. The libretto of the ballet is built from quotes of conversations conducted with people living in places where the future never came. The dispersed memories of local habitants return as a catalogue, a libretto which becomes at the same time a physical object and a choreographic score, whose post-linear logic is tender and fragmented. It is also a ritual dance combined with a queer takeover of bodies subordinated to the logic of unfulfillments.
© Wojciech Rybicki

Artist

Wojciech Rybicki

Biography: Born on September 22, 2001, in Bytom. A queer artist working in the fields of choreography and performance. A graduate of the PERA School of Performing Arts in Northern Cyprus. Nominated in the 10th edition of the Forecast platform for the project 'Three Sisters. Pas de mark.' Artistic resident at Scena Robocza (Poznań) with 'idontlikemetut(yo)u', Agit Lab (Águeda), Kielce Dance Theatre (Kielce), and Exis Dance Company (Athens). Co-creator of performances such as 'Swans vol.2' at the Grand Theatre Opera (Poznań) (FEDORA Audience Award), 'Practice of Seeing' at the Kazimierz Dejmek New Theatre (Łódź), and 'The Mind is a Still Smoke in an Endless Space' during the East African Nights of Tolerance (Kigali). Recipient of a 2025 cultural grant from the municipality of Bytom.
Contact: wojciech.rybicki.01@gmail.com
Website: https://wojciechrybicki.wixsite.com/wojciechrybicki
Social media: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100005305128294 https://www.instagram.com/wojciechrybickkki/
Work: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bfQRzmKfL3W8sSl9pICz2Eixc1Jdz45o/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lqAUpMk3iQ0m72hpSq4ecshswYFcN4dz/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/128a8PrjCqPYq46vT_8zuRHq_UkpJMmcL/view?usp=sharing

Participating festivals

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