SG

Guest Performance / Dance / Events in Ruhner Berge

Ewa Dzianowska
This Resting, Patience

Saturday, 23 August 2025 - 19:00-22:00 (180’)

SG Arts Centre - Halle 1 *, Mentin - Germany

Tickets: Pay What You Can

* Former Barn Building of Schloss Mentin

We warmly invite you to a special summer evening at the estate of Schloss Mentin in Ruhner Berge for This resting, patience — a performance by Ewa Dziarnowska, a dancer and choreographer from Poland based in Germany. This three-hour choreographic work brings performers and audience together in a quiet, welcoming atmosphere. It’s not a conventional stage show — you’re free to come and go, stay as long as you like, and experience the moment in your own way.

In a time shaped by conflict, uncertainty, and division, This resting, patience offers a space for something else: presence, slowness, and shared attention. It gently echoes the spirit of the song “What the World Needs Now (Is Love)” — made famous by Jackie DeShannon and later reimagined by Dionne Warwick — not as nostalgia, but as a reminder that care and connection are still possible, and still necessary.

The performance explores states we all know: closeness and distance, longing and togetherness, loneliness and connection. It unfolds gradually, like a quiet ritual, inviting reflection — personal and collective.

Since its premiere at Berlin’s Tanztage Festival in 2024, This resting, patience has toured across Europe. As one reviewer wrote, it is “a powerful and moving dance work that makes you feel like you’re seeing dance for the very first time.”

Join us on 23 August 2025 at SG Arts Centre – Halle 1 in Mentin (Schloss Mentin, Ruhner Berge). Bring friends, bring family, stay as long as you like — and share in a rare kind of gathering, right here in Ruhner Berge.

A pop-up cafeteria at SG Halle 1 will offer drinks and snacks before, during, and after the performance. We look forward to welcoming you.

Entrance is by donation — pay what you wish and what you can.

All photos by Spyros Rennt

By: Ewa Dziarnowska
With: Leah Marojević
Sound: Krzysztof Bagiński
Light: Jacqueline Sobiszewski
Costume / styling: Nico Navarro Rueda, Franziska Acksel
Dramaturgical support: Jette Büchsenschütz
Artistic dialogue: Suvi Kemppainen
Photos: Spyros Rennt
Video documentation: Margarita Maximova
With thanks to: Maciej Sado

A production by Ewa Dziarnowska in co-production with Sophiensæle. The 33rd Tanztage Berlin is a production of Sophiensæle. Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion and the Capital Cultural Fund (HKF). With the kind support of Tanzfabrik Berlin e. V., Theaterhaus Berlin Mitte.

This event is organised by Something Great – Zentrum für zeitgenössische darstellende Künste as part of the VOR.ORT programme of Tanz weit draußen – a new format expanding into rural regions, bringing the art form of dance to life where it is otherwise rarely visible. In 2025, six events across Germany bring together artists, local communities, experts, and unique places to explore regional issues and imagine new futures. VOR.ORT connects local initiatives with supra-regional exchange – as an impulse for community, participation, and new cultural perspectives on the ground.

Participating in the programme are: TANZWERK Werder & Ponderosa Stolzenhagen (Brandenburg), Schloss Bröllin & Something Great – Zentrum für zeitgenössische darstellende Künste (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern), Tanz- und Theaterwerkstatt Ludwigsburg & Szene 2wei Lahr (Baden-Württemberg).

Tanz weit draußen is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM) through the programme Verbindungen fördern of the Federal Association of Independent Performing Arts (BFDK).