Federico, Alex Baczynski-Jenkins
Saturday 20 Sep 2025 from 4pm to 4:10pm, from 6pm to 6:10pm
Sunday 21 Sep 2025 from 4:30pm to 4:40pm, from 6pm to 6:10pm
Free upon registration
Federico (2015) by Alex Baczyński-Jenkins is a minimal choreography for touch between two performers.
The figures formed between the hands of the performers are at times recognisable as an intimate touch and at others as abstract figures of relationality and entanglement.
This is a choreography of desire on the smallest scale, that mobiles affect and sensuality as a means for a queer archive of touch.
Each iteration of the performance is choreographed in collaboration with the performers and tailored to the duo - with a special version created for the Échelle Humaine festival at Lafayette Anticipations, performed by dancers Malick Cissé and Andréa Givanovitch.
Credits
Choreography: Alex Baczyński-Jenkins
Lafayette Anticipations iteration performed by: Malick Cissé and Andréa Givanovitch.
First iteration in collaboration with and performed by Jayson Patterson and Nick Finegan.
Further iterations performed by Katarzyna Szugajew, Anton Ambroziak, Rafał Pierzyński, Basyma Saad, Nomi Sladko, Boji Moroz and Sasha Malyuk.
A production by Alex Baczyński-Jenkins Studio
Studio director: Andrea Rodrigo
Studio manager: Laura Cecilia Nicolás
Federico was commissioned by Montague Space. With thanks to Tim Steer.
His artistic practice investigates the structures and politics of desire through gestures, collectivity, touch, and sensuality. He uses choreography to reflect on feelings, perceptions, and collective emergence, exploring alternative experiences of memory, time, and change.
Alex Baczyński-Jenkins has presented work amongst others at Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid (2022); Festival Sâlmon x MACBA, Barcelona (2023) Kölnischer Kunstverein (2022); Ludwig Forum Aachen (2022 and 2024 with schritt macher); Kiasma, Helsinki (2022); Lafayette Anticipations, Paris (2022). His solo exhibitions include: Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2019); Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw (2018); and Chisenhale Gallery, London (2017). His work has also been presented at the 58th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia (2019); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2019); Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, Zurich (2018); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2017); Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (2017); Swiss Institute, New York (2016); Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź (2016); and Liste Art Fair, Basel (2014). Baczyński-Jenkins’ debut feature film, Such Feeling, premiered at the Nowe Horyzonty Film Festival and the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (2024).
He was the recipient of the Frieze Arist Award and the Arts Foundation Award in 2018. He was nominated for the Future Generation Art Award in 2021.
Malick Cissé began his dance training while studying languages at the University of Rennes 2. He joined the Conservatoire Régional de Rennes, where he studied for a year and took part in free training sessions, before joining the École Supérieure du Cndc in Angers in 2021.
His approach to movement lies somewhere between dance and physical theatre. He pursues his exploration into movement as a performerin the works of Cherish Menzo, Oona Doherty and Gisèle Vienne as of 2024.
Also in 2024, with three other young artists, he created the ‘SHELTER’ collective, a platform through which he is currently developing a co-written project titled ‘Bound to promises, bound to home, bound to[...]’ as well as pursuing individual research projects.
Andréa Givanovitch graduated from the Conservatoire Régional de Musique et de Danse de Toulouse. In 2015, he joined the Compagnie Juvenil del Ballet Classic de Cataluña, before joining SEAD (Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance)andgraduating in 2020.
He has performed in works by Ohad Naharin, Damien Jalet, Mathilde Monnier, Patricia Apergi, Jan Lauwers, François and Christian Ben Aïm. He was also a dancer with the repertory company Bodhi Project Dance Company during two seasons.
Andréa is also the choreographer of Exodus, a quartet, as well as Untitled (Some Faggy Gestures), a solo that premiered in 2024 at the “Le Grand Bain” Festival at the CDCN-Le Gymnase in Roubaix.
Leather Better is the new solo performance choreographed and performed by Andréa, which will premiere this year at the Lyon Dance Biennial.
In 2024 he co-created with Clara Lou Munié the Melted Milk collective, based in Toulouse, Occitanie.