It’s already dusk

photo Beata Ziemowska

  • choreography: Ewa Wycichowska
  • music: Henryk Mikołaj Górecki
  • costumes (new version): Adriana Cygankiewicz
  • premiere: 05.10.1994.
  • renewal: 1.12.2005. (Umea - Sweden)
  • duration: 17 minutes

For Ewa Wycichowska the primary although not literal inspiration to "It is already dusk" was the famous Bergman scene of a game for life with Death in the "Seventh Seal". A refined duel fought by the characters with Death depicted as an overpowering figure (a dancer on stilts) arousing an eschatological awe. In Ewa Wycichowska's interpretation the duel has a perverse and paradoxically optimistic end, which gives rise to reflections on true strength and hope.

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