About the Performance
LAYERS is a performance rooted in radical imagination, envisioning worlds that resist capitalist and patriarchal structures. Created and performed by Katarzyna Żeglicka and Alicja Czyczel, the work investigates the transformative power of imagining alternatives. Drawing from their personal histories, queer feminist perspectives, embodied practices, and visions of utopia, they assemble a stage narrative woven from dreams of anarchist futures.
Artistic Influences
The piece takes inspiration from Cristina Morales’ novel Lectura fácil.
LAYERS becomes an energetic collage of experiences shaped by non-normative bodies: part feminist-queer montage, part gentle call for a borderless world, part playful utopia, and part defiant meditation on ageing.
Format: A Relaxed Performance
The show is designed as a relaxed performance, inviting audiences to step outside conventional expectations of spectatorship. Participants are welcome to move through both the audience and stage spaces, choosing how to experience the work—sitting, lying down, standing, or shifting as needed—without the pressure to remain silent or still.
Accessibility
Visuals, sound, and lighting will be arranged with care to avoid sensory discomfort.
Audio description can be available through headphones and partially woven into the spoken text.
All spoken words on stage can be translated into sign language, with the interpreter fully integrated into the performance as a co-performer.
Tournée
2025
November 29, 30 | Krakow Dance Theatre (Poland)
December 12, 13 | Kampnagel (Germany)
Credits
With: Katarzyna Żeglicka, Alicja Czyczel
Concept, choreography, performance Katarzyna Żeglicka, Alicja Czyczel Dramaturgy Daria Kubisiak Music: Joanna Piwowar-Antosiewicz Multimedia Volha Salakheyeva Costumes and set-design Marika Wojciechowska Lights Eryk Makohon German Sign Language Paulina Güllü Audiodescription Venera Wais, Ninja Junge Production and coordination Izabela Zawadzka, Paweł Łyskawa
Co-financed by The Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation.
Produced by: Krakow Dance Theatre
Co-Produced by: Europe Beyond Access (Kampnagel Hamburg, ZAMEK Culture Centre, CODA Oslo International Dance Festival, Culturgest Fundação Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Holland Dance Festival, Mercat de les Flors – Casa de la Dansa, Onassis Stegi, Oriente Occidente Rovereto IT, Project Arts Centre, and Skånes Dansteater), co- funded by the European Union.
Co-financed by: the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund as part of the “Dance” program, implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance.