Dates

29.09.2025 / 18:00

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Can dance mend our ties to the land and intimately connect us? “Lush Blast” is a walking performance in an urban park, exploring the relations between natural and artificial, wild and domesticated. Tree trunks and limbs, crumbling mountains, roaring rivers, vibrating chains. Four performers guide the audience through varying atmospheres, from evocative songs to acidic humor, asking what remains of the wilderness in and around us. Using their physicalities and voices, they morph their presences in a quest to become something other than human, inviting us into a sensual feast and a 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. 

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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 and costumes: Natálie Rajnišová

Production: Dorota Michalak, Alica Minar & col.

Partners: Studio Alta in Prague (CZ), Bazaar Festival in Prague (CZ), Teatrul Andrei Muresan in Sfantu Gheorghe (RO), Hellerau in Dresden (DE)

Supporter: State Fund of Culture of the Czech Republic, Culture moves Europe, Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, National Recovery Plan, European Union, Goethe Institut, Prague City Hall, Czech-German Future Fund, IDU Prague, PerformCzech and Contemporary Arts Alliance Berlin

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.

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Language: English and Czech

Performance duration: 60 min

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photo: Michal Hančovský