Call Me Jay

Call me Jay is a pas-de-trois between two dancers and a moving LED light. It is a duet that becomes a trio, a choreography where roles shift, and the lines between human and non-human blur. Who leads, who follows, and who truly has control? Amidst cables and old-school lamps, the performers navigate a space of interconnection and negotiation. One dancer moves with their own physicality, the other remotely operates the light—yet the light itself seems to have a will of its own. It responds, resists, obeys, and surprises, transforming from object to partner, from machine to collaborator. This piece plays with different modes of control—direct, indirect, visible, and hidden. The dancers and the moving light engage in a delicate game of imitation, amplification, manipulation, and improvisation. They explore the materiality of their surroundings, allowing friction, fragility, and spontaneity to shape the choreography. Beyond the technical elements, Call me Jay is an invitation to imagine new ways of coexisting with technology. As traditional stage lighting disappears from theatres, what other relationships between humans and machines could emerge? What happens when we stop seeing technology as a tool and start seeing it as a creative partner? Through poetic images woven from the simplest materials, Call me Jay invites the audience to reflect on collaboration beyond the human. What new constellations of movement, presence, and influence can we create—together?

Agata Maszkiewicz is a choreographer and performer. She lives in France. She graduated from the contemporary dance department at the Institute of Dance Arts in Linz, and was a participant in the “ex.er.ce” program at the Centre Chorégraphique National in Montpellier. She has worked with the Superamas collective, Ivana Muller, Alix Eynaudi, Anne Juren, Paola Caspao, Weronika Szczawinska and Agnieszka Jakimiak, among others. She has performed at Komuna Warszawa Theater twice - in 2019 with her performance “Such a Landscape” (as part of the ‘Landscape’ residency program curated by Weronika Szczawinska) and in 2019 with her performance “Still Life.” In her choreographic work she uses bodies, objects, things, texts, images. He enjoys creating hybrid stage forms, combining different, often very distant themes and proposing strange mixtures. He uses humor as a tool. She is always looking for a specific context to create movement. She loves to dance and cares about making dance attractive to the audience as well.