
Inside. (2019) Tusia Dabrowska with Molly Dilworth and Andrea Kuchlewska. With additional music by Milosz Pekala.
By Tusia Dabrowska and Andrea Kuchlewska
A brief odyssey to the questions we ask ourselves and the answers we rarely hear.
INSIDE was a devised live performance about the answers we seek but rarely hear. Using textual prompts, an ephemeral sculpture of onion bags, and a composition played at three different speeds with different sets of lyrics, as well a devised interactive installation, the piece transformed the space and asked, What is the generosity you feel in this moment?
The performance explores the meaning of human connection. The piece responds to a culture of self-help and achievement language that falls empty. It is about these brief moments when you feel awake beyond a culture obsessed with self-care and authenticity but lacking them. It might be because there is a dragon in front of you. How do you live with a dragon, or a sense of your own mortality? The answer in the performance was multi-layered. First, and simply, breathe. Second, pass your breath (inside a balloon) to those near you, and receive the breath (in balloons) from others. And third, bearing witness to a story that is enveloping the space.


