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Performed live at LSO St Luke's, Saturday 27th May 2017

Electric Guitar: Alex Roth
Dancer: Katarzyna Witek
Dancer: Stella Papi

"touching one wall of me" is a work-in-progress that will form part of a new dance performance by Kasia Witek premiering at the Polish Social and Cultural Association in September 2017. The title chosen for this excerpt comes from Ted Hughes’s poem Wodwo, in which a mythical forest spirit explores its own consciousness and environment, in Hughes’s own words, "just discovering that it is alive in the world”. This state of curiousness is at the heart of Witek’s investigation of the intelligence of the body, awakening in the performers a sense of belonging, togetherness and joy.

Alex Roth is a guitarist, composer, improviser and producer who draws inspiration from dance, film, literature and visual art as well as myriad musical traditions. Alex's work ranges across boundaries, and he regularly collaborates with leading figures from the UK's jazz, improv, contemporary classical, alternative folk and electronic music communities.

www.alexrothmusic.com

Polish-born dance artist Katarzyna Witek is a graduate of Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Royal Holloway and London Contemporary Dance School. She has performed in the works of Rosemary Lee, Lea Anderson, Mafalda Deville, Marquez and Zangs and Henrietta Hale among others, touring both within the UK and internationally. Her choreographic work ranges between film, installation and theatre-based performances, and she has a particular interest in collaborating with composers.

www.katarzynawitek.com