LAGUNA

The lagoon is a shallow water body cut off from the sea and pushed to its periphery, with a variable shape and uncertain identity. It is part of it and at the same time a separate entity that disrupts the predictability and harmony of the landscape. Sometimes it arouses fear.

The concept of Paweł Sakowicz's choreographic piece grows out of curiosity about what is unknown or hidden and what, hovering vaguely on the fringes of cognition, evokes a sense of danger, stimulating the mind to produce imaginations. And although ‘Laguna’ is the first strictly choreographic performance at TR Warszawa, it will drift between the psychology of power relations, genre body horror immersed in the physicality of the actor's body and retro sci-fi aesthetics, thanks to its grounding in the theatricality and poetics of horror.

‘Laguna’ will also attempt to answer the question of how to produce a choreographic language of fear on and off stage. What can frighten and fascinate us at the same time in movement itself? What is the relationship between theatrical and muscular tension, and what is the relief in the situation of a real meeting of bodies that, for a brief moment, want to be afraid together.