All that I left behind is here

Performance · Dance · Shape Festival by Romuald Krężel

– Eine Person mit gehäkeltem Tuch über dem Gesicht hält eine E-Gitarre und zeigt mit dem erhobenen Arm nach oben. Überhead ist eine große Lampe.

“All that I left behind is here”, by Romuald Krężel, is a solo performance drawing from his personal and artistic experience. He focuses on different aspects of classism in the context of the performing arts by returning to his very first dance experience – a ballroom dance class, the only one offered for free in his primary school. By relearning and critically evoking movements, steps, poses and different styles of Cha-Cha-Cha, rumba, jive, and so on, Krężel examines his social background and its relations to his current choreographic practice. Ghostly figures and post-punk music echo and guide the audience through the return to Krężel’s past, culminating in a vulnerable conversation with his mother about class, body, work, shame and dance.

CONCEPT, CHOREOGRAPHY & PERFORMANCE: Romuald KrężelSPECIAL GUEST: Irena KrężelDRAMATURGY: Agata SiniarskaRESEARCH: Tamara AntonijevićCOSTUME: MaldororTECHNICAL DIRECTION, LIGHT DESIGN: Patrick FaurotSOUND DESIGN & MUSIC DIRECTION: Miguel CaldasSOUND ENGINEER: Moana Ava HolensteinPRODUCTION: Anna KonradARTISTIC ASSISTANT: Louis F. Baca V.ARTISTIC SUPPORT: Carolina Mendonça & René Alejandro Huari MateusA production by Romuald Krężel in co-production with Uferstudios in Berlin and HELLERAU — European Centre for the Arts in Dresden. Funded as part of the Alliance of International Production Houses by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds. Supported by the Residency Program funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Station — Service for Contemporary Dance in Belgrade/Serbia, Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart. The research process was supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media within the program NEUSTART KULTUR. With the friendly support of Theaterhaus Berlin Mitte.

Next date:

• Date Saturday, 31/October/2026 18:00 bis 19:00
• Venue Tanzfabrik Berlin: Tanzfabrik Berlin BÜHNE x Uferstudios
• Address Uferstraße 23, 13357 Berlin-Wedding