We Have Each Other, Only Each Other

We Have Each Other, Only Each Other is a story of two women brought together by their passion for dance and their need to tell their own story. On stage, their different bodies, experiences, and ways of moving through the world spoke a shared language. Through dance, they expressed closeness, solitude, acceptance, and the essentials of life.

On March 12, 2014, Aula Artis in Poznań hosted the performance We Have Each Other, Only Each Other by the Fleks Dance Theater. Choreographed by Ewa Sobiak (Polish Dance Theatre) in collaboration with Justyna Duda, the piece was set to the music of Ennio Morricone. Both artists, Sobiak and Duda, performed together, merging two perspectives: that of a dancer and that of a wheelchair user.

Premiered in 2008, the work returned in a refreshed form as a deeply personal tale of community, corporeality, and open-ended questions. The artists reflected on what matters most to them: beauty, acceptance, solitude, and being “different.” Their narrative through movement carried audiences across emotions both deeply individual and universally shared. The performance voiced unspoken questions such as “What is beauty?” “Is who we are only up to us?” “Each of us knows we live to die.”

Following the performance, the creators engaged in a conversation with the audience, sharing insights into their collaboration and the meaning behind the work. The evening reaffirmed that contemporary dance, even in its inclusive form, is both a deeply personal and universal language, capable of telling the most essential stories.