Alex Baczyński-Jenkins: Untitled (Holding Horizon)

Queer embodiment and desire, collectivity and subjectivity are all explored in this durational dance built around the simple movement of the box step.

Untitled (Holding Horizon) is a choreography that continues Alex Baczyński-Jenkins’ engagement with negotiations of desire, the materiality of gestures and affections of a queer commons.

Through sensual, alienated gestures and the box step – a movement used in several social dances – synchronisation, pleasure and alliance coexist with disorientation, limitation and loss.

The performers affect – and become affected by – the live mixed sound and light, while repetition and duration elicit shifting perceptions and associations: a memory of a rave, a ghostly gathering, a celebration and mourning, a militant congregation. In this altered state, the box step becomes a vessel.

Untitled (Holding Horizon) is a durational experience. The audience is able to enter and leave the space at their leisure

Artist and choreographer Alex Baczyński-Jenkins’ practice is concerned with the mediation of queer embodiment and relationality through choreographies of affect, empathy and intimacy.

*The ticket price includes a £2 venue restoration levy.*

Presented by Southbank Centre.

This is a 12+ event.