Dates
| 08.09.2026 / 19:30 |
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Work-in-progress of the new performance by Alica Minar & col.
“I don’t want strangers to touch me on the subway. And yet I hope that if I were to fall one day, someone would come to me.”
Between the words of these sentences POINT OF TOUCH came to be. Not from a desire to celebrate closeness, nor from the belief that we can understand one another, but from a sense of doubt and the question of what it is within us that determines the moment another person begins to affect us. The performance weaves together documentary fragments, personal memories, imagination, and dance. It creates a space in which we can observe how human connections actually emerge.
During rehearsals, we shared stories with one another. Some were our own, some were retold, and some may not even have been true. Yet we discovered that, at times, this distinction no longer matters. What connects us does not erase all the differences between us. Perhaps what matters most is not touching another person, but remaining beside them for a while, without wanting to change them, save them, or fully understand them.
This performance is not intentionally political, yet it inevitably carries a political dimension. It searches for a way of coexisting without relying on the illusion of complete understanding. Alongside two dominant narratives of our time–“we are all essentially the same”, or “we are so different we can never understand one another” – it offers a third possibility: we do not have to agree in order to remain side by side.
50 minutes / English
FREE ENTRY
Photos by Tereza Vacková
Alica Minar is a Slovak choreographer, performer, and curator. Through bizarre situations, she intuitively searches for humour and poetry, while dissecting the neglected sides of burning societal issues together with the audience. She is part of the curatorial teams of Dancetopia Symposium and Studio ALTA in Prague. Alica is a graduate of choreography studies at HAMU in Prague (BA) and Inter-University Centre for Dance HZT in Berlin (MA).
Choreography: Alica Minar
Dance: Yelena Arakelow, Aneta Bočková, György Jellinek, Jakob von Kietzell, Valerie Renay, Matthew Rogers, Lenka Vořechovská
Dramaturgy: Katarína Bakošová, Lucia Kašiarová
Music: Vi Huyen Tranová
Costumes and scenography: Magdaléna Vrábová
Light design: Félix Noslier
Choreographic assistance: Olesia Usata
Production & PR: Alica Minar & col.
Partners & Residences: Studio ALTA, Prague CZ, Dock11, Berlin DE, Tatwerk, Berlin DE, HAUT Copenhagen DK, Truhlárna, Prague CZ, Nová Cvernovka, TELOCVIČŇA – Rezidenčné centrum pre tanec and PLAST – Platforma pre súčasný tanec, Bratislava SK
Financial support: Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, Czech State Fund for Culture, Prague City Hall, HAUT Copenhagen, Czech-German Future Fund, European Union, Culture Moves Europe, Goethe-Institut