“Still Standing – performance in urban space”

“Still Standing” is a performative action in which the body is treated as a vehicle of memory and a living sculpture emerging in relation to place. The action enters into a dialogue with a historical choreography by Israeli choreographer Noa Eshkol, prepared by her for the 10th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and presented in 1953 at the Lohamei Hageta’ot (Ghetto Fighters) kibbutz in Israel. Using movement, choreography and storytelling, “Still Standing” poses the question of care as a possible attitude towards what is left of history – a care that directs us not only into the past, but also towards the present and the future. Through the physical, moving bodies of the performers, the action also provokes questions about how such ephemeral forms can be used as strategies of commemoration, especially in places associated with difficult memory? What can movement extract from a given space and its history?

Creators: Weronika Pelczyńska, Aleksandra Janus

Detailed information on the event can be found at:  https://polin.pl/en/thou-shalt-not-be-indifferent-program