Glory Game

Aerowaves Spring Forward Festival 2025

Festival provides a platform for some of Europe’s most vibrant and promising choreographers to show their work to performing arts professionals and local audiences.  Hosted by Artisti Associati, the 14th edition of Aerowaves’ festival will take place from the 23rd to the 26th of April 2025.

3 days of jam packed action

The programme is formed of the current year's Aerowaves Twenty artists, who are invited to stay for the whole weekend, so that conversations with programmers can evolve naturally.

Local audiences have the chance to discover a great variety of brand new dance artists, most of whom are performing in their city for the first time.

The Spring Forward Festival 2025 is part of the official programme of the European Capital of Culture 2025 Nova Gorica – Gorizia.

Here you can find the link to book the free tickets:  https://www.artistiassociatigorizia.it/events/aerowaves-spring-forward-festival-2025/

Dominik Więcek / Sticky Fingers Club Glory Game

Poland

How does the media influence the perception of sports and turn the human body into a commodity?
‘Glory Game’ examines how the ever-watchful camera feeds the audience's fascination with athletes as they endure pain and destruction, transforming them into characters in a perpetual melodrama. The performance unfolds in a physically challenging slow motion, set within a square of sand that serves as a racetrack, battlefield, playground and refuge. Blending absurdity with profound beauty, ‘Glory Game’ captures the titanic effort of bodies defying human limits, questioning the price of such feats in the name of entertainment and spectacle.

Concept and choreography: Dominik Więcek
Creation and performance: STICKY FINGERS CLUB with Daniela Komędera, Dominika Wiak, Dominik Więcek, Monika Witkowska as well as collaborators Natalia Dinges and Piotr Stanek
Dramaturgy: Konrad Kurowski
Scenography: Mateusz Mioduszewski
Costumes: Weronika Wood
Music: Przemek Degórski
Light design: Piotr Pieczyński
Production: Teatr Komuna Warszawa
Artist management: Mark Christoph Klee

Special thanks for inspiring contributions to the creative process: Paweł Wysocki, Johnny Blade, Biesiad Strong.

Residency made possible by: Lublin Dance Theater and the Cultural Center in Lublin

Biography

Dominik Więcek’s works are filled with humour, playfulness and a sense of lightness, deconstructing dance history, theatre rules and tradition. Taking autobiographical topics, he makes them resonate with the audiences’ lived experiences. Więcek believes in confessional performances in which honesty can be situated somewhere between privacy and theatrical formality. He flirts with many theatrical genres, explores demanding physical states through extensive movement research, experiments with his own image and challenges societal norms by being an unapologetically queer artist creating in Poland. Trusting his intuition and driven by curiosity he allows himself: not to know, to make mistakes, to take roads to nowhere, as well as getting excited about the smallest of discoveries. Since 2020 together with Dominika Wiak, Daniela Komędera and Monika Witkowska, he has co-created durational performances and stage works as the Sticky Fingers Club. In 2021 Więcek created “Café Müller“, which was selected for Aerowaves #Twenty23.