Aurora Lubos
"Witajcie/Welcome"

photo by Maciej Sierpień

video, objects, sound, movement: Aurora Lubos
performance: Aurora Lubos
music: Alex Catona
premiere: 15 May 2016, Przestrzeń Sztuki WL4 in Gdańsk
duration: 40 minutes

I am interested in the human being, the one who is safe but reluctant to taking in others, who escape from war, conflict, oppression, death, hunger. I am interested in the situation of conflict, menace, suffering. What would the satiated, selfsatisfied Western people feel with respect to those whose daily reality focuses on the struggle for survival? One of the elements of the show is the documentation of From the Water, a performance which took place on a beach in Sopot in mid-October 2015, on the Solidarity with Refugees Day. The piece was my commentary on immigrants dying in the sea, a transposition of those images onto our Polish, tangible reality.

Aurora Lubos (b. 1977) is an independent dancer associated with the Polish and British contemporary dance scene. She has created several outspoken solo pieces, covering such topics as domestic violence, among others. For 15 years, she was an actor with the Vincent Dance Theatre. She is the author of solos (Zanzibar; Unfinished; Knife, Horse and Stairs; Acts; Thou Shalt Not); installations/performances (No. 1; Four Corners; Act for Two – Leftovers; Without Home; Out of Water) and animations (Winter 2010 cycle).

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