Glory Game

The first modern Olympic Games coincide with the invention of the cinematograph, which completely transformed the way sports are participated in and received. The order of the media gains dominion over the order of sports competitions. The rules and regulations of the Olympic fields are being changed under the camera and the tele-participation of the spectator. Treatments related to the presentation of movement: slowed down and sped up ago, replays, close-ups, or abrupt changes of viewpoints act on the viewer like an immersive series and have elements of melodrama. At the center of it all is the body, from which the rules of the game constantly demand more and more. Modern sports impose extreme loads on athletes that exceed the biological capacity of the body. Citus - altius - fortius (faster - higher - stronger). "You say you want to win in Olympia. However, think through what this entails. You must be obedient, follow your diet, deny yourself cookies, exercise at set times, whether it's hot or cold. You are not allowed to drink cold water or wine when you want. You should put yourself in the hands of a trainer as if you were entrusting yourself to a doctor. And later, during the competition, and it's your opponent who will try to blind you, and it's you who will dislocate your arm, and it's you who will twist your ankle, and it's you who will ingest sand and be flogged. And after all this, it may happen that you lose." (Epictetus. Discourses III.15.2-4)

Dominik Więcek is a dancer, choreographer-performer, movement director, but also a fashion photographer and stylist. His works are characterized by lightness of form, balancing on the intersection of arts and theatrical genres and playing with his own image. He graduated from the Faculty of Dance Theater in Bytom (a branch of the Cracow Academy of Theater Arts), and was a scholarship holder at the Folkwang Universität der Kunste in Essen. He has performed at the Polish Dance Theater in Poznań, the Krakow Dance Theater (including Nesting, based on a concept by Israeli choreographer Idan Cohen, 2015) and the Grand Theater-Opera Narodowa (in Halka, directed by Mariusz Treliński, and María de Buenos Aires, directed by Wojciech Faruga).
He was born in Germany. As part of the Tanzrecherche NRW 2021 residency fellowship, he worked on an autobiographical project called The-Spiral. The question “What kind of artist would I be if I grew up in Germany?” then led him to the solo performance Café Müller. In it, he referred to Pina Bausch's legendary performance, and described his version as “fan fiction.” To work on Glory Game, he invited the Sticky Fingers Club collective, which he co-founded with WTT alumni and graduates in Bytom.