DISCO BLOODBATH

Disco Bloodbath (Got to be real) is a piece commissioned by the Warsaw Autumn Festival, and has been premiered by Black Page Orchestra on 26th September 2018. It is a 16 minutes long collage of different melodies, harmonies, rhythms, beats and even songs. Its subtitle comes from the song by Cheryl Lynn.

This work is inspired by two very different phenomenons: the ballroom culture and the gaming society. Those 2 completely different societies have a very important thing in common - identity freedom, especially when it comes to gender. In the ballroom/drag scene gender is something very fluid, flexible. In the gaming world, gender is something that is not important as far as you're a good player. Those two worlds also got in common another thing - being funny through being unpolite, arguing with each other for fun. People in both communities like to insult each other, which seems to be a specific kind of a game between people. So - the ballroom scene and the gaming society seem to be realities, that are a beautiful contrast to the real world - by becoming virtual, you finally start to become real. And You got to be real, darling!