Dates
| 30.05.2025 / 18:30 |
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Can dance mend our ties to the land and intimately imbricate us? Lush Blast is a walking performance in an urban park, exploring the relations between natural and artificial, wild and domesticated and cultural representations about nature. Four performers guide the audience through varying spaces and situations, asking what remains of the wilderness in Europe and in us. Using their physicalities and voices, they constantly morph their presences in a quest to become something other than human, inviting us into a sensual feast and cruel battlefield. After spending time in the Carpathian Wilderness, the choreographers want to re-articulate power as a vital force rather than a tool of control. What would happen if humanity gave up controlling and exploiting nature? What should be sacrificed for this to happen?
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Choreography: Dorota Michalak, Alica Minar
Creation and performance: Dorota Michalak, Alica Minar, Breanne Saxton, Ola Zielińska
Music: Ola Zielińska
Dramaturgy: Maikon K
Text: Katarína Bakošová
Stage design: Natálie Rajnišová
Light design: Raquel Rosildete
Production: Dorota Michalak, Alica Minar & col.
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Partners: Bazaar Festival in Prague (CZ), Studio ALTA in Prague (CZ), Teatrul Andrei Muresan in Sfantu Gheorghe (RO), Hellerau in Dresden (DE).
Thanks to: Erik Baláž, Alina Hriscanu, Ondrej Kameniar, Anna Poppa and the team of Foundation Conservation Carpathia, for guiding us through Tatra and Fagaras Mountains and sharing stories about wilderness, Carolyn Hall and Matthias Nuß for exchanging perspectives on the relationship of science and art.
Supported by: Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, National Recovery Plan and European Union, Culture Moves Europe and Goethe Institut, State Fund of Culture of the Czech Republic, Prague City Hall, Czech-German Future Fund, IDU Prague and PerformCzech, Contemporary Arts Alliance Berlin.
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Language: English and Czech
Performance duration: 60 min
TRAILER
photo: Vojta Brtnický
After the Lush Blast performance, we will celebrate the closing of our European project On Mobilisation by releasing two publications: Toolkit & Mobilising Words.
The On Mobilisation project emerged from a bottom-up collaboration between wpZimmer (Belgium), Baltic Art Center (Sweden), Studio ALTA (Czech Republic), and Lavanderia a Vapore (Italy), organisations actively engaged in international solidarity and emancipatory movements within the cultural field. To effectively address and mobilise micro-communities, the project embraced the local specificities of each partner, engaging individuals committed to social justice and equality.
More information to be found HERE.
