I Will Remember You
This performance is a physical and poetic meditation on death, release, and memory —
told from the perspective of the one who dies, and the one who remains.
On an almost empty stage, two figures move through a ritual of farewell. A body is
handled, lifted, dropped, carried, dressed, mourned, resisted, and finally released. The performance unfolds as a sequence of physical actions that resemble burial rites, acts of care, and acts of separation. Sound is created live using bells, wooden sticks, breath, and voice, transforming the space into an acoustic landscape of grief, resistance, and cleansing.
The central tension lies in a paradox:
The dead asks the living to let go completely — to forget, to feel nothing — while at the same time promising: “I will remember you.”
The work explores:
• the physical labor of grief
• the violence and tenderness of letting go
• the body as both object and memory
• the impossibility of holding on to life
• the transformation of sorrow into movement
Rather than illustrating death as tragedy, the performance treats it as a natural
dissolution of form. The stage becomes a place where memory is dismantled, rituals are questioned, and attachment is slowly burned away — until only presence, breath, and movement remain.
Director: Jozef Fruček
When: June 30
Venu: Okruhový Dom Armády, Trenčín
