Ewa Dziarnowska Poznań / Berlin
Like It Is (work in progress)
Rather than pursuing clear, pre-set narratives, the work aims to create “moments” and approaches choreography as a real-time process of embodied thinking, in which the three performers engage in a continuous act of sensing and choosing. It invites an intuitive way of watching and making, one that values sensation and attention over interpretation. In this way, the work seeks to resist the linear pull of chronology — the clock’s steady progression — in favour of understanding time as Kairos: the charged instant when everything briefly aligns, a field of possibility. In referencing the past, present and future, it finds its own sense of timelessness.
At Santarcangelo Festival, Ewa Dziarnowska presents a work-in-progress showing — the first stage of her research, with the final version set to premiere in 2027. The showing is structured into three chapters that unfold through scores drawing on somatic, postmodern and social practices: through gossip, prayer and confession, the work offers three meditations on making time habitable and on different facets of togetherness.
Bio
Ewa Dziarnowska is a dancer and choreographer based in Berlin, working across performance, collaboration and research. Her recent projects – “This resting, patience”, “Anything is a form if you let it”, “https://4677684728466.com” – reflect her sustained inquiry into improvisation as both method and philosophy. Through attention to sensation, rhythm and relation, she investigates how movement can generate knowledge and resist the pressures of coherence and productivity. Her practice unfolds in real time, balancing precision and spontaneity while questioning the social and aesthetic frameworks through which dance is produced, witnessed and circulated.
kiana rezvani (born in west Iran, based in Berlin, Germany) is an artist, choreographer and researcher developing choreographic and performative formats that blend dance, text, video and voice and are presented at theatres, galleries and independent curatorial spaces. Their artistic practice revolves around histories and narratives that are forgotten, untold, concealed and suppressed. Their solo and collaborative works have been shown at Sophiensaele, Berlin; Uferstudios, Berlin; PACT Zollverein, Essen; Dock 11, Berlin; Schwankhalle, Bremen and Theater im Depot, Dortmund among others. They are the cofounder of cobracobra collective, where personal archival materials from the geographies of so-called Iran and Bolivia are researched. kiana is a 2026 Fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude.
Sunayana Shetty (India / Germany) is a Berlin-based dancer, choreographer, and educator working across performance, research, and facilitation. Her choreographic practice looks into the temporal nature of emotions: how they are constructed and unfold over time through form, sensation and attention. Her recent works include “Three Women Walk Into A Bar…” (2025), created in collaboration with Hanna Kritten Tangsoo and Sigrid Savi, which premiered at Kanuti Gildi Saal in Tallinn, and “Mother Tongue”, presented in Berlin, New York, and Mumbai. In 2024, she was selected for the Asian Performing Artists Lab (APAL). Alongside her artistic work, she is engaged in pedagogical and collective formats. She is visiting faculty at the Institute of Classical and Modern Dance in Mumbai and co-initiated the “Among Us” workshop series.
Address
Accessibility: accessible for wheelchair users and people with limited mobility.
via Orsini 19, Santarcangelo
Info
duration: 3 hours
The audience may leave and enter again at any time during the performance, subject to the venue capacity. Ticket holders must be at the entrance by the scheduled start time.
SENSITIVE CONTENT
loud sound or music, close-up performance
Credits
di Ewa Dziarnowska
con kiana rezvani, Sunayana Shetty
suono Olle Holmberg
luci Jacqueline Sobiszewski
costumi / styling Nicolas Navarro Rueda
consulenza artistica Maciej Sado
coproduzione Santarcangelo Festival, Divine Comedy International Theater Festival / Łaźnia Nowa Theater (Krakow), Bergen Internasjonale Teater
con il supporto di Inteatro Residenze / RAM – Residenze Artistiche Marchigiane / Minor Constellation a cura di Ilaria Mancia
progetto realizzato con il supporto di Adam Mickiewicz Institute e cofinanziato dal Ministero della Cultura e del Patrimonio Nazionale della Repubblica di Polonia
con il sostegno di Istituto Polacco di Roma
progetto sostenuto da European Festival Fund for Emerging Artists – EFFEA, iniziativa di European Festivals Association EFA, cofinanziata dall’Unione Europea
in collaborazione con Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Bruxelles) e Zürcher Theater Spektakel (Zurigo)

© Olle Holmberg