Work in progress: Filip Pawlak

Meet the artist

During March and April, Polish performer, producer, dancer, filmmaker, and activist, Filip Pawlak has held an artist residency in the Skånes Dansteater studios, where he is creating a new solo work. The residency is a part of his Masters studies in "Performing Arts as Critical Practice" at Malmö Theater Academy. During his weeks at the theater he has been working on what will be the new solo work 'Can you help me?'. 

See what he has been working on — his first solo project — and hear him talk about his artistic practice. This is a wonderful opportunity to see a work in its early stages and gain insights into how a solo artist approaches making their work.

Practical information

Program: approximately 30 mins. presentation and 30 mins. discussion. Please note: the event is held in English.

Price: Free admission, limited numbers. 

Sign-up: via email to dialog@skanesdansteater.se or phone 0703-44 58 11. 

About Can you help me?

After all, we deserve it, don't we? We've earned it with our hard work. The fatigue from waking up to going to sleep. Our dreams were not exorbitant, just to always have something to put in the pot, to have enough money to regularly change the bedding in which we sleep with someone close to us, to get a job that allows us to wilful our potential. To be a little proud, but not vain. To be able to stick one's chest out and take a calm breath in which fear for tomorrow does not lurk. Good job! Well done! I am proud of you! 

Can we recall our first successes and failures? Our first steps, tying our own shoes, a rhyme memorized in kindergarten? What is left of them in us? In the performance 'Can you help me', Filip Pawlak will ask about the qualifying skills necessary for a happy life and what we think about when we sigh deeply when tired after a day's work. Is there a version of us that would satisfy us completely?

Within the framework of his work, he tries to distance himself from his own biography, while at the same time attempting to notice, from a distance, the symbolic moments that have conditioned his perception of disability, his Eastern European working-class background, his non-heteronormative identity, but also the hope that he has in art.

About Filip Pawlak