In Threesome/Trzy, Wojciech Grudziński shares the dance space with spectral figures from the past in an attempt to grapple with their legacy. This act of phantasmagoric choreography sees the performer go cruising through the biographies of the legendary dancers Stanisław Szymański, Wojciech Wiesiołowski and Gerard Wilk. Brought up in post-war communist Poland, two of them eventually emigrated, while one chose to stay in his native country.

How have the dancers’ bodies been remembered? How did these bodies become aware of their own sensibility and express it on stage? How can these marginalized life stories be reclaimed and embodied today? How do we construct an untamed, monstrous, illogical bodily archive of the queer past without losing any of their uniqueness?

The performance seeks to remember and demythologize the trio; to rediscover the worlds these dancers inhabited without us. It is a hazy posthumous ballet, a repressed legacy, a reenactment, an act of somatic plunder and transformation.

Threesome/Trzy: do not let these biographies be appropriated, much less devoured, by politics and the history of ballet. Do not let national sentiment lay claim to the oberek. Surrender to the other, so as to disappear and exist all the more.

Wojciech Grudziński is a choreographer and dancer. He graduated from the Roman Turczynowicz Ballet School in Warsaw and completed a BA in Contemporary Dance at Codarts Rotterdam. In 2023, he obtained a Master’s degree from DAS Graduate School at the Academy of Theatre and Dance, Amsterdam University of the Arts. In 2024, he was an artist-in-residence at the Cité internationale des arts x CN D in Paris, where he developed Threesome/Trzy. In 2025, he received the Polityka Passport Award in the Stage category. He is an associated artist with Frascati Producties in Amsterdam.

Grudziński has received scholarships from Poland’s Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (2017, 2021), the City of Warsaw (2021), and Dutch foundations including Schuurman Schimmel-van Outeren Stichting (2012/2013) and Stichting Bekker-la Bastide-Fonds (2013). In 2018, he won a competition for a study visit to Movement Research at Judson Church in New York, organized in cooperation with the Global Practice Sharing (GPS) programme, Art Stations Foundation and the National Institute of Music and Dance.

Grudziński has collaborated with, among others, Dries Verhoeven (The NarcoSexuals, SPRING Performing Arts Festival), Igor Cardellini and Tomas Gonzalez (2100, Palazzo Trevisan degli Ulivi, Venice), Marta Ziółek (Seans z Pamelą, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw), Ula Sickle (Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw), Ben J. Riepe (CREATURE, Goethe-Institut, Kraków), Katarzyna Kalwat (Purification, Łaźnia Nowa Theatre, Kraków) and Hana Umeda (Sada Yakko, Komuna Warszawa Theatre).