STICKY FINGERS CLUB COLLECTIVE
Rialto Theatre, Limassol
21 March - 8.30pm
Tickets https://rialto.interticket.com/program/sticky-fingers-club-collective-3143
Sticky Fingers Club is a performance about failing, where the characters are the background. Notoriously on the fourth place, competing with the unrivalled Meryl Streep fighting for an Oscar. Facing constant defeat, they create a space of celebration where they are the stars. On their own terms, they celebrate being imperfect, supporting each other and challenging each other. Among the expressive characters, there is an opera singer who loves music without reciprocity, a neurotic lady, an out-of-date star and a dancer who was never able to dance a solo scene.
The performance, both in the sphere of movement and in the expressive, frontal "attitude" of the performers, refers to queer and ballroom culture and vogue dance itself. Here, for social exclusion and non-normativity, a space is opened to reveal a colourful identity. Pop-culture references to the queer mainstream, popular fashion shows, or the Bohemian Rhapsody of Queen, giving Sticky Fingers Club a huge dose of humour and self-irony. The performance deals with the wider problem of failure, and the consequent of exclusion and forgetfulness, without resorting to generalisations or moralisations. It uses theatrical and choreographic tools; thus, it is difficult to pigeonhole and classify it. By undermining social norms, it becomes a critical choreography.
I almost got the flowers and I almost knew what the champagne tasted like.
I mistook the brake for gas.
I am the first to be out of the podium. I overtook all those who are behind me.
I almost have a reason to be proud.
I got lost in the same place again.
I almost got a standing ovation.
Concept | Choreography | Performance: Daniela Komędera-Miśkiewicz, Dominika Wiak, Dominik Więcek, Monika Witkowska
Dramaturgy support: Konrad Kurowski
Lighting director: Krystian Koźbiał
Music: Przemek Degórski
Costumes using designs by: Krystian Szymczak, Edward Kuzmich, Roman Marchewka.
Producers: Gdańsk Dance Festival / ŻAK Club, Lublin Dance Theater
Premiere: 03/09/2020 / 12th Gdańsk Dance Festival
Language: Non verbal performance (few quotes in English)
The performance received the Zygmunt Duczyński Award during the 55th Review of Small Theaters KONTRAPUNKT 2021 in Szczecin. The performance received the second prize at The Independent Theatre Competition “The best OFF”.
The performance is created as part of the funded programme “Spaces of Art”. The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland, implemented by the Institute of Music and Dance and Theater Institute Zbigniew Raszewski. The operator of the project in Lublin is the Center of Culture in Lublin.
Co-organised by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute as part of the international cultural programme of the Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union 2025. Co-organised by Dance House Lemesos within the framework of InBetweening - The art of exchange project.
Duration: 60'
Tickets: € 10/8
