WISŁA by Weronika Pelczyńska is an outdoor performance involving the audience, whose choreography opens up a space for reflection on the physicality of nature. The starting point for the movement is the conviction that humans and the river remain in a mutual, material, and emotional entanglement. Our shared presence on the Vistula becomes possible through the sensation of our own bodies in relation to its current.

Drawing on the river’s rhythm and variability, while also revealing the tensions between humanity’s need to regulate nature and the dynamics of a living ecosystem, the performance raises questions about the possibility of attuning ourselves to the processes of which we ourselves are a part. Poland’s longest river, as it flows into Warsaw, narrows its course and gives the impression of being calmer, more restrained. In reality, however, the so-called “Warsaw Corset”—the section of the river constrained by urban development—remains the living, pulsating heart of the city: it oxygenates it, cools it, opens up space, and gives it rhythm.

WISŁA draws attention to phenomena and interdependencies that often remain invisible. The team organizing the event engages with the river as an entity that demands mindfulness and the creation of new forms of presence based on an awareness of interdependence.

Participants in the performance will be invited to experience themselves as part of a larger organism, to listen to the river, and to perceive the flows present within their own bodies. Through movement, dance, and visual, auditory, and verbal experiences, the artists