Malign Junction (Goodbye, Berlin) is a group piece dedicated to the theme of finitude. It reflects on capture, the breaking of a promise, loss, and movement in relation to power, as we find ourselves at a disorienting historical juncture. The performance gestures towards Christopher Isherwood’s 1939 novel Goodbye to Berlin, set in the final days of Berlin’s nightlife and cabaret culture during the rise of fascism.

The scene is at once a stage, a strange apparatus of entrapment, an internal landscape of fragmentation, a club, a waiting room. It contains silent actors, a broken heart, a will for resistance, mourning, ecstatic fracturing, despair, and captured showgirls. 

The intricacies of desire, alienation and relationality play a significant role in Alex Baczyński-Jenkins’ artistic practice. Through choreographic methods, he explores the subtle nuances of interdependence and suspended time. His distinctive embodied vocabulary and minimal, tactile visuality swerve from the most fleeting to infrastructural gestures.