Dates

17.10.2026 / 10:00–12:00

18.10.2026 / 10:00–12:00

Information

How close can two bodies dance without touching? What tension, curiosity, or vibration emerges in the space between them? Literal and metaphorical touch enters as both risk and invitation: sensing heat through inner radar, melting into another body, offering ourselves as landscapes that shall be respected, held, and shared. Skin becomes a porous threshold where self meets the other. What happens when the limit is challenged, what kind of embrace does this process entail?

The project builds on somatic improvisation, choreographic research, and (non)touch-based encounters. Participants navigate proximity, elasticity, awkwardness, vulnerability, and the intensity of being affected ~ exploring the capacities and quirks of empathy not as an innate trait but as an embodied practice.

The workshop lasts 120 minutes.

Photo: Teresa Rosa Weiser

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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).

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Led by: Alica Minar

Production & PR: Alica Minar & col.

Partners & Residencies: Studio ALTA, Prague CZ, Dock11, Berlin DE, Nová Cvernovka a TELOCVIČŇA – Rezidenčné centrum pre tanec and PLAST – Platforma pre súčasný tanec, Bratislava SK, HAUT Copenhagen DK

Financial support: European Union, Culture Moves Europe, Goethe-Institut, Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, Czech State Fund for Culture, Prague City Hall, HAUT Copenhagen