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

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photo: Vojta Brtnický