The curated evening Emergency Dances IV. is composed of three projects, each unique in their format. Ve vší svatosti (In All it’s Glory) is a longer-lasting performance, to which you can arrive, experience, and leave from. It takes place in the main hall. If that space is filled to capacity, try to come later. Nebojsy (Do not be afraid) takes place in more spaces of Paláce Akropolis, you walk with the other audience members, starting in front of the main hall- capacity is limited. Motherland takes place in the main hall, has theater seating, and is performed once each evening.
The next piece of the curated series Emergency Dances concentrates on the ambiguous space where life is born. The dance springs forth from the definitive point where there is no turning back. Magdalena Malinová and Nitish Jain invite the audience to specially created installations and through the universality of voice and touch offer a search for the boundaries of intimacy. Nhung Dang and collective, through movement, focus on the models of functional motherhood and its representation in the world of plants, animals, and people, while seeking to share a non-dual perspective, where rational examples are transformed to a non-linear, living version of relationships. Tereza Holubová, Klára Kočárková, and Kristýna Štarhová in their immersive search for the limits of home shine a light on their audience and their bodies tell the stories of the past and celebrate their wounds.
Ve vší svatosti / In all its glory
A shared space is created between the audience and performers, where on the basis of the limits of one and the wishes of another, trust is found between two bodies. We don’t know one another; we don’t see one another. Together we try to find commonalities, we ask “what is difference.” What is it like to shake hands with someone whose face we can not see? We step together into a space where hands, shoulders, voices, and feet communicate together through feeling, movement, and presence. Slow down, be curious, and stay as long as you like. Your presence and interest give the opportunity for something to be created that was never here before.
Motherland
The young independent group Nhung Dang and collective explores the variety motherhood in a way that already exists in the world of animals and plants; the second layer focuses on motherhood as a subjective, physical, and human experience, and both these layers together reflect a third layer, which reexamines the conventional depictions of the mother archetype in culture and mythology throughout history and around the world. The creators of this project seek to provoke audiences into emotional engagement and critical thinking. The casting of a male performer into the role of a mother doubts society’s dogma that motherhood, in the sense of caring for a child, can only be done by a woman and asks whether “motherhood” can exist outside the body of a “mother.”
Nebojsy
An Immersive movement testament invites you into the inner workings of the home and to the boundaries between another body and mine. A Multi-dimensional and cultural-anthropological concept of Terezy Holubové, Kláry Kočárkové and Kristýny Štarhové feels for the interior spaces of non-acceptance, loss within oneself, and the final point of decision whether to give life or not to. Through gestures, step, and words, the performers go through a painful place of emptiness or loss. In the following moments, together with audiences- thanks to them, and through them- performers allow themselves the risk of leaving to be on their own path.
Premiere: 13. 11. 2023 - Palác Akropolis
Part of project: Emergency Dances
