Dates
| 17.01.2025 / 11:30 - 21:00 |
| 18.01.2025 / 18:30 - 22:00 |
Information
Put on your skates and lace them up tight! Studio ALTA is moving onto the ice, transforming the rink into a stage where we invite you to dance, connect, and party. Two days of performances, skating, sharing, and reflecting on what a massive sheet of ice in the middle of the city evokes in us.
❅❅❅
🧊 ALTA on Ice is about joy and spending time together.
🧊 ALTA on Ice is about experimenting on the slippery surface of art.
🧊 ALTA on Ice is about ecological awareness.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2025
11:30 AM – 2:30 PM
Meeting point: in front of Studio ALTA
Ice skating workshop with Katja Grohmann: Introduction to the IceLab Leipzig methods
We will expand your creative toolbox on ice skates with movement exercises from contemporary dance with a focus on contact improvisation and floorwork. You will learn how to find and use new movements and figures to keep going by yourself. You will gain an insight into the infinite potential of movement on ice skates. After a warm-up, we work on various movement tasks and your very individual prerequisites and possibilities. The focus is on authenticity and spontaneous movement development. Prerequisites: Curiosity, openness to the unfamiliar, basic skating skills (gliding, breaking).
The first part of the workshop is Off Ice, the second will translate the ideas we found on the floor onto the ice.
If you have your own ice skates, we recommend bringing them. Skates can also be rented on site for 80 CZK.
photo: Simona Rybová
❅❅❅
🧊
6:00 PM – 7:15 PM / Velký Mlýn Library
Film Screening: FREM
The film responds to the current wave of posthumanist thinking brought about by advancements in technology, artificial intelligence, and the climate crisis. Humanity is beginning to realize its insignificance and transience, placing human identity in crisis. FREM seeks to reflect this feeling, creating a dehumanized and alien perspective on landscapes and nature beyond the boundaries of human perception. Fragmented thoughts and snippets of dialogue, diverse music interspersed with noise and glitches, and a seemingly disoriented, unanchored camera craft a disquieting philosophical reflection on the limits of anthropocentric thought.
Director: Viera Čákanyová
Cinematography: Tomáš Klein, Viera Čákanyová
Production: Nina Numankadić
Editing: Marek Šulík, Viera Čákanyová
Sound: Miroslav Tóth, Stanislav Abrahám
Slovak director Viera Čákanyová studied screenwriting at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (VŠMU) and documentary filmmaking at Prague’s FAMU, where she was awarded at FAMUfest for her student films Piraňa (2007) and Alda (2009). In addition to her own documentary work, she focuses on dramaturgy and frequently collaborates on film projects with television and non-profit organizations.
❅❅❅
FREE ENTRY
🧊
7:30 PM – 9:00 PM / Studio ALTA Icehouse
Exhibition Opening: Iva Ščerbáková / Where Are the Snow of Bygone Years: Winterology Collections
Winterology is a field of study dedicated to exploring winter. It arose from the desire and need to examine things that are disappearing, where one loses certainty—things that are transient, impermanent, intangible, and fragile. Winterology is not only a term for artistic works but also a way of meeting and acting.
Preservation of memories. Imprints of memories in objects. Visible and invisible traces of the past clinging to things and places. The memory of objects and places. Things that express a halted time, preserved just before they vanish.
“The fragility and delicacy remind me of a snowflake, but I cannot imagine a snowflake without a drift of other snowflakes, and suddenly, the fragility and delicacy disappear. Winter is something I inevitably seek refuge from, only to realize how fragile I myself am.”
❅❅❅
FREE ENTRY
🧊
20:00 – 21:00
DOUBLE WORK IN PROGRESS – Katja Grohmann a Becka McFadden
❄️
Katja Grohmann / dis:rupt_ions
waves, rock. growth, breaking parts. organic processes encounter obstacles, interruptions, distractions. woven in an experimental-contemporary aesthetics on ice skates, the performer approaches the dessonances of our time.
photo: Simona Rybová
Becka McFadden / Some Iconic Programs: Struktura a narativ (work-in-progress)
Maybe I feel ok.
Maybe I feel a sense of internal urgency in my chest, like I’m running late and can’t catch up.
Maybe I’m second-guessing myself because I am alone out here and you’re watching me.
Maybe I’m wondering why I still think about skating so much — or at all — when there is so much else to think about.
Over 20 years since she last performed on ice, Becka McFadden revisits the narratives, structures and spaces of competitive figure skating.
“I am trying to understand how it shaped me aesthetically as an artist. I am trying to understand how it shaped and continues to shape the way I understand myself, particularly in response to pressure, achievement, success and failure.”
What can be let go of and what can be transformed in the flow from foot to blade, from floor to ice and back again?
Concept / choreography / performance: Becka McFadden
Graphic design: Mariia Reshetova
Developed in dialogue with: Katja Grohmann, Sylvie Robaldo, Daniel Somerville, Anna Tichá
Production: Kateřina Kubíková, Beautiful Confusion, z.s.
photo: Neven Petrović
❅❅❅
FREE ENTRY
🧊
SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 2025
6:30 PM – 9:30 PM / Studio ALTA Icehouse
Exhibition: Iva Ščerbáková / Where Are the Snow of Bygone Years: Winterology Collections
Winterology is a field of study dedicated to exploring winter. It arose from the desire and need to examine things that are disappearing, where one loses certainty—things that are transient, impermanent, intangible, and fragile. Winterology is not only a term for artistic works but also a way of meeting and acting.
Preservation of memories. Imprints of memories in objects. Visible and invisible traces of the past clinging to things and places. The memory of objects and places. Things that express a halted time, preserved just before they vanish.
“The fragility and delicacy remind me of a snowflake, but I cannot imagine a snowflake without a drift of other snowflakes, and suddenly, the fragility and delicacy disappear. Winter is something I inevitably seek refuge from, only to realize how fragile I myself am.”
❅❅❅
FREE ENTRY
🧊
7:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Opera on Ice by Kistenn
DIY opera pop star Kistenn (@kistenn8)
is the solo project of singer and music producer Kristián Marcel Jedelský. His music combines melodic and striking vocal lines with lyrics inspired by both real-life experiences and the imagined landscapes of distant worlds. He experiments with sampling, incorporating old recordings of operatic arias into fresh, modern songs, merging them into his original genre of electronic opera. His performances traverse monodramatic forms, theatrical props, and grand costumes, delivering a captivating and unique artistic experience.
❅❅❅
FREE ENTRY
🧊
19:30 – 21:00
Party on ice with DJ Seafur
Skates, Glitter, Party! Don’t be afraid to let your imagination melt the ice—come in your most dazzling party costume and turn the ice rink into a disco paradise. But don’t worry, you’re just as welcome to dance on the ice in your everyday outfit too!
Seafur is an illustrator, tattoo artist, and DJ. Her music selections are eclectic, playful, sometimes goofy, but always with a strong emphasis on vocals, percussion, and booty-shaking beats.
INFORMATION FOR VISITORS
Entry to all events is FREE, except for Friday’s Skating Workshop with Katja Grohmann.
DRESS WARMLY ❄️ · ❄ · ⛸
