Przymierska Morgan

Przymierska Morgan is a London-based performance duo: Margot Przymierska and Nicholas Morgan. We have backgrounds in performance, theatre, translation, filmmaking and curation. We have been working together making performances and devised theatre since September 2014, sometimes just as a duo, sometimes with live musicians and, on occasion, bringing in up to ten other performers and other creatives to realise larger-scale projects.

Our practice adopts a non-gender-binary perspective, and sets out to explore political issues in unexpected ways and to shed new light on urgent questions, while avoiding answers. Most of our work is developed from a poetic or visual idea through a long research process, followed by physical work, arriving at performances that incorporate both rule-sets and spontaneity. We often take a detached or hostile attitude to our source material, using it to build an auto-critical style of performance.


2015 DIETRICH (WORK IN PROGRESS)
Performed at Battersea Arts Centre. Collaboration with sound artist Andrew Jones.
This part performance lecture - part live art piece explores communication and mis-communication across languages, cultures and genders through 3 stylistically different scenes.

An interpreter is struggling to understand what is the truth and what is the lie during a police interrogation of a notorious confabulator.

Narrators switch between speech and physical reenactment to tell the story of The Nibelungenlied - an epic poem written around 1200 in Middle High German, which was used as Nazi propaganda.

3 artists search for a common ground as they devise a performance that encompasses their different artistic forms of expression (sound, live art, theatre, film) and makes space for the audience as the 4th co-author.

2015 SMASHED HIT
Presented at Ambition Festival, Croydon. Following the footsteps of the musical giants such as David Bowie, Kraftwerk, Elton John, the Beatles, Pink Floyd and Stevie Wonder, a newly formed concept pop-band Dietrich is launching its careers at Fairfield Halls.

2016-17 PARALLEL LINES
Presented at Cardiff M.A.D.E., Hundred Years Gallery (London), New Arts Project (London). Two performers lay the table with a post-funeral spread. Audience members are invited to take a seat at the table. Once the table is laid the performers tell separate but intertwining stories. With no scripted text, each performer improvises from memory, creating a piece which isn’t representational but wholly exists in the moment with the audience. One performer re-tells an episode of Game of Thrones, the other recounts an autobiographical event, the few charged hours of a family funeral. The two narrative lines colour and inflect each other, collapsing characters, time, space, fiction and reality to shocking, revealing and amusing effect. Towards the end a box of legacies is brought out and its contents passed around among the people at the table. Ave Maria plays and the piece ends.

2017 MAPPING THE DISTANCE BETWEEN BODIES
Presented at Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre, London part of Twofold: the Particularities of Working in Pairs Symposium by Haranczak/Navarre Performance Projects, curated by Karen Christopher.
Our performance lecture explores issues and raises questions around the ways that two-person collaborations are structured and constructed, particularly in the case of mixed-gender pairs. We will talk about physical/bodily relationships, distribution of power, gender and other cultural rule-systems as they bear on working pairs through the particularities of three duos: William and Caroline Herschel (brother & sister discoverers of Uranus), Jayne Torville & Christopher Dean, and ourselves.

2016-17 ACTION PULPEUSE
A radioactive zone where performance, music & live art kiss & make up. Hosted by the Betsey Trotwood and New Art Projects.

Photo by Tanya McGeever