The End
choreography: Magda Jędra, Kasia Kania, music: Nagrobki
The End 29.10.2025, 19:00
The End 30.10.2025, 19:00
The End 31.10.2025, 19:00
Old Disney animations ended with a panel reading “The End” and a sweet orchestral cadence. Even if the plot featured conflicts, crises, or death, virtually all productions had happy endings. This is still the case, although the end panels have disappeared. They are probably no longer necessary, because we are constantly coming to terms with various endings – cinematic, personal, historical, and political.
The end of bodily proficiency. The death of a loved one. Loss. The collapse of a political system, the ruins of the old world, the end of anthropocentrism, the disappearance of hope. Private collapse. The last generation. The axis of Magda Jędra and Kasia Kania’s choreographic performance is the end and its relationship with regimes that control ideas of happiness and produce capitalist fantasies about happy ends. On stage, the performers are accompanied by the Tri-City band Nagrobki, known for their raw punk energy and grotesque explorations of funeral themes.
Disney’s human and more-than-human bodies were believable because their anatomy had been deformed, their joints broken, and their bones shattered. In order for an animated body to appear real, it had to be made unreal. It had to escape the problem. What if it was precisely the body—in all its materiality—that persisted with the problem and became a space for reaching alternative fantasies and desires? For reparative strategies, intimacies that escape norms, and eco-queer narratives?
Premiere
29 October 2025
Team
Concept, choreography, performance: Magda Jędra, Kasia Kania
Music, song lyrics, performance: Nagrobki (Maciej Salomon, Adam Witkowski)
Text and dramaturgy: Anka Herbut
Costumes and set design: Marta Szypulska
Lights direction: Jędrzej Jęcikowski
Photos: Mariusz Krawczyk (@sillyseasonimages)
Consultations/feedback: Szymon Adamczak
Outside eye in the process: Anna Majewska
Creative development: Alicja Berejowska
Partnering institution: Gdański Archipelag Kultury Stacja Orunia
Bio
Magda Jędra (she/her) – choreographer, dancer, performer. In her choreographic works, she combines movement with performance and a site-specific approach. For several years, she has been deepening her knowledge of nature, searching for channels of communication between the human and plant bodies. In 2019, she began working on the concept and practice of the botanical body, which she developed in her latest works: “Evil Herbs” and “Forest and Humans” and presented as part of Global Practice Sharing at Judson Memorial Church in New York. She lives in Gdańsk.
Kasia Kania (she/her) – choreographer and performer. She also works as a dramaturg for choreographic processes and an academic teacher. Her interests focus on the theory and practice of so-called “expanded” thinking about choreography, i.e., strategies for observing and building movement/relationships that deepen our understanding of the world. She practices and researches feminist discourses, collective ways of thinking and acting, feedback strategies, and inclusive methods of communication. She graduated from the Dance Theater Department in Bytom and the Institute of Applied Theater Studies at the Department of Choreography and Performance in Giessen, Germany. She works in international and interdisciplinary structures.
NAGROBKI – A Tri-City band consisting of Maciej Salomon and Adam Witkowski. The band’s music is an original mix of guitar noise, folk, cold wave, big beat, and early black metal. As one might expect from a band with this name (Tombstones), the lyrics of all their songs deal with transience, death, and passing away.
The band has released four studio albums and several recordings of music created for theater performances. They have played about three hundred concerts in Poland and abroad, including at the largest Polish music festivals, such as Opener Festival, Tauron Nowamuzyka, Off Festival, and Unsound. They also supported Jack White’s concert in Poznań.
Partner of the event
The event partner is the Author’s Association ZAiKS.
Co-financing
The event is co-financed by the City of Warsaw as part of the Komuna Warszawa – Social Cultural Institution project.
