Babel. The resonance of language

Before you say anything. Before you articulate your thoughts with words. Before you formulate it into speech, a phrase, a chain of words. Before the “before” emerges as a “before”. Before all that, your body initiates a quaint mode of preparedness. It causes slight vibrations in particular parts of your physical being. It activates an inner structure, sensible in a similar manner as your neural, circulatory or endocrine system. Something as an anatomical configuration of a language. The lecture performance Babel. The resonance of language comes from a hypothesis that each language has different resonant points in the body. That these points get activated while speaking, thinking, listening or reading in a given language. And that this activity influences the perception of one’s physical self, one’s ways of communicating and of perceiving reality. Departing from the exploration on the relationship between text and movement, multilingualism and the experience of being a foreigner learning new languages, in Babel. The resonance of language, I am looking to exercise and experiment with the theory of the resonant points of language. How do you know that you know a language? Como teu próprio corpo pode ser teu tradutor pessoal? Jak wielojęzyczność może być kluczem do zrozumienia `współczesności?

Bartosz Ostrowski Since 2024 identifies as BAXI - a choreographer, dancer and performer. His work is characterized by the coexistence of text and dance in direct dialogue with the audience. Ostrowski is invested in trans-disciplinary dialogue, developing queer & collective work methodologies and oriented towards research in practice. He works mainly in Portugal and the Visegrad countries, with a strong focus on the love affair between art and science. Graduate of AST Cracow, Warsaw Dance Department, Forum Dança, and numerous workshops worldwide. In 2024 danceWEB scholar on Impulstanz, Vienna. Resident artist of Nature of Us project, Visegrad Fund, PLaST and SE.S.TA. Author of essays for „Ruchome teksty” and „Dance floor”. Co- author of the publication „Blurryliungualism. Dancing between languages. Toolkit”. Member of community working with Real Time of Composition method of Portuguese artist João Fiadeiro. Collaborates among others with Diana Niepce, Agrupacion Señor Serrano, kainkollektiv and Komuna Warszawa. Co- author of trans-disciplinary projects: Blurrylingualism, developed between linguistics and choreography, and Don’t pressure we already lack oxygen, speculative research on post-sovietness. Two-meters body aiming to reveal the background of understanding.