Emergency Dances

Emergency Dances

About project

A series of dramaturgically and curatorially aimed original dance productions, creating space for beginning professionals in the area of choreography. Emergency Dances created space for the birth of performances such as Nebojsy (Tereza Holubová, Kristýna Štarhová and Klára Kočárková), Jáma lvová (Johana Pocková and Sabina Bočková), Sádlo (Ridina Ahmedová), Mass (Eva Stará), Post Human (Martin Talaga and Denis Baštuga) and others. The curator of the series is Miřenka Čechová, in trio with Markéta Vacovská and Kristýna Boháčová. Young choreographers can thus learn not only to create well thought-out dance pieces, but also how to orient themselves within the independent scene, how to support their projects from a production standpoint and how to accept feedback. 

Emerge (from the latin emergere) mean to appear, to stand up (merger – to go under + e/ex – out). The series is loosely translation as Dance standing up in crisis mode. The theme Emergency Dances presents the demand for the use of the body as the primary expressive tool, which address the real question of urgent circumstances or exceptional needs, which appears and is sought in through dialogue with the audience.

Emergency Dances has for seven years motivated authors towards experimentation, while remaining in the framework of active intellectual and production support. The project can thus be understood as a laboratory,

Emergency Dances V. (2024)

Confluence by Angela Nwagbo, Vrásnění by Daniela Kolková, and XXX|||\\\ by the Simulakrum collective.

Emergency Dances IV. - Space Womb (2023)

Nebojsy by Tereza Holubová, Klára Kočárková and Kristýna Štarhová; In all its glory by Nithish Jain and Magdalena Malinová; and Motherland by the Nhung Dang & Collective.

EMERGENCY DANCES III. - SELF-AWARNESS (2021)

Fat by Ridina Ahmedová, Mass by Eva Stará, and Passing by Nikola Križková

EMERGENCY DANCES II – LIMITS OF THE BODY (2019)

Not To Take a Prayer by Bora Debnárová and Jindřiška Křivánková, Homo Sensorium by Martin Talaga and Denis Baštuga, and Druhá kůže by Kristýna Kužvartová and Aida Mujačić

Emergency Dances I – Media Pathologies (2019)

The Lion’s Den by Johana Pocková and Sabina Bočková, and Ententiky by Denisa Musilová.

Partners of the project