Glory Game

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.

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.