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How does the media influence the perception of sports and turn the human body into a commodity? ‘Glory Game’ examines how the ever-watchful camera feeds the audience's fascination with athletes as they endure pain and destruction, transforming them into characters in a perpetual melodrama. The performance unfolds in a physically challenging slow motion, set within a square of sand that serves as a racetrack, battlefield, playground and refuge. Blending absurdity with profound beauty, ‘Glory Game’ captures the titanic effort of bodies defying human limits, questioning the price of such feats in the name of entertainment and spectacle.
I almost got the flowers and I almost knew what the champagne tasted like.
I am the first to be off the podium. I have overtaken all those behind me.
I almost have a reason to be proud.
I got lost in the same place again.
The ovation was almost standing.
Sticky Fingers Club is a show about failure, where the characters are always in the background. They often take fourth place, and in the fight for the Oscar they compete with the unrivaled Meryl Streep. In the face of constant failures, they create a space for celebration in which they are the stars. They celebrate being imperfect on their own terms, support each other and challenge each other. Among the expressive characters there is an opera singer who loves music without reciprocity, a neurotic lady, a faded star and a dancer who has never had the opportunity to dance on a solo stage.
The performance, both in terms of movement and the expressive, frontal "attitude" of the performers, refers to queer culture, ballroom culture and vogue dance itself. Here, a space is opened for social exclusion and non-normativity to reveal a colorful identity. Pop culture references to the queer mainstream, popular fashion shows, and Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen add a huge sense of humor and self-irony to Sticky Fingers Club. The play raises the broader issue of failure and the exclusion and forgetting that result from it, without resorting to generalizations or moralizing. It uses theatrical and choreographic tools, so it is difficult to pigeonhole and classify it. By questioning social norms, it becomes critical choreography.
Concept and choreography:
Dominik Więcek
Creation and performance:
STICKY FINGERS CLUB collective consisting of: Daniela Komędera, Dominika Wiak, Dominik Więcek, Monika Witkowska
as well as Natalia Dinges and Piotr Stanek
Dramaturgy:
Konrad Kurowski
Scenography:
Mateusz Mioduszewski
Costumes:
Weronika Wood
Music:
Przemek Degórski
Light design:
Piotr Pieczyński
Production:
Teatr Komuna Warszawa
Artist management:
Mark Christoph Klee
Special thanks to people whose work was an inspiration for us: Paweł Wysocki, Johnny Blade,
Biesiad Strong. And we are very grateful for the support of Lublin Dance Theater and the Cultural
Center in Lublin.
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The performance appears sophisticated. Stylish black costumes - the color of success and mystery – which emphasize expressiveness of the dancing bodies, and the light not only brings out depth of the figures, but also becomes the subject itself. It includes some and ignores others. Is an object of desire that is being fought for - a race for attention and achievement? Everything is characterized by a delicate humorous twist, which makes the performance, despite its difficult subject, not overwhelming; lightness and seriousness are respectively balanced. Watching Sticky Fingers Club is a huge pleasure.
Hanna Raszewska-Kursa | Teatr Magazine
The performance is a witty, self-ironic parade of losers, not devoid of bitter aftertaste. It touches the subject contrary to success - failure, or rather the sensitive issue of being "right behind". Right behind the winner, right behind the podium, just below the line. That annoying, hitting point of being in a narrow group of nominees, but ultimately forced to give up a sense of style, and finally forgotten, because who remembers about the runner-up, or who reached the finish line fourth?
Natalia Szafrankiewicz | taniecPOLSKA.pl
A sense of humor, originality of movement, excellent harmony and throwing the viewer off the beaten paths of associations - these are the advantages of "Sticky Fingers Club", in which smooth transitions from group scenes to solo performances allowed to highlight the strengths of each dancer. They started with a joke - and ended likewise. They can still amaze. They alternately entertained the viewers and demanded their concentration. They engaged the entire space of the stage, including the balconies. They were self-ironic, because wasn’t it about how much artists love splendor, take failures badly, and envy each other - was it intelligently playful? But were they just artists?
Anna Umięcka | www.gdansk.pl

Sticky Fingers Club is an informal artistic collective created by Daniela Komędera, Dominika Wiak, Dominik Więcek and Monika Witkowska. In their artistic work, they move on the borders of theater, choreography and performance. They like to question their own habits, deconstruct theatricality and listen to their collective and individual voices. They are interested in self-irony, work based on playfulness and permission to exaggerate. In the working process they look for inclusiveness and distance. They are interested in body practices and performance in which, thanks to teamwork and mutual support, they can enrich their skills and transcend limitations.
Performances:
Sticky Fingers Club (2020)
VALESKA VALESKA VALESKA VALESKA (2022) – choreography by Dominika Knapik, performed by SFC.
The Discomfort of Evening (2022) – gallery work
GLORY GAME (2023) – choreography by Dominik Więcek, performed by SFC, Natalia Dinges and Piotr Stanek.
Breakfast on the Grass (2024) – gallery work.
Performances:
03.09.2020—> Gdański Festiwal Tańca PREMIERA
04.09.2020—> Gdański Festiwal Tańca
12.11.2020 —> XXIV Międzynarodowe Spotkania Teatrów Tańca w Lublinie
10.08.2021 —> Krakowskie Centrum Choreograficzne (Nowohuckie Centrum Kultury )
29 .08.2021 —> Teatr Ziemi Rybnickiej
04.09.2021 —> Teatr Kana w Szczecinie / Festiwal OFF Kontrapunkt 2021 KONTRAPUNKT - Przegląd Teatrów Małych Form
05.09.2021 —> Obornicki Ośrodek Kultury
28.10.2021 —> Wrocław / Studio Na Grobli, Instytut Grotowskiego
30.10.2021 —> Nowosolski Dom Kultury
05.11.2021 —> Tetar KTO w Krakowie
21.11.2021 —> Teatr im. Jana Kochanowskiego w Opolu
07.10.2022 —>Teatr im. Heleny Modrzejewskiej w Legnicy
04.11.2022 —> Bielski Dom Kultury w Bielsku Podlaskim
05.11.2022 —> Teatr KTO w Krakowie
13.11.2022 —> Tetar Maska w Rzeszowie
19.10.2023 —> DramaQueer Festival, Bratysława, Słowacja
09.11.2023 —> Katowice Akademia Muzyczna
26.11.2023 —> Komuna Warszawa
05.12.2023 —> Teatr KTO w Krakowie
