Dates
| 30.05.2026 / 16:30 - 20:00 |
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Afternoon minifestival of participatory performances and intimate gatherings. The program invites participants to explore through taste, touch, movement, sound, and scent. Intimate and collective moments offer an opportunity to slow down, be present, and experience the surroundings, the body, and the world from new perspectives.
The program begins at 17:00 and leads you through the performances step by step. It is not possible to join later during the event. The only performance you can buy a separate ticket for is Lush Blast: Walking Performance.
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17:00 – 17:20
Nitish Jain: Homeward
The cloud asks her lover:
How can I be your solid ground, your shelter
When I wander homeless, just floating away?
Homeward is a multisensory collage of migrations—leaving, returning, circling, or being cast into exile. Through stories, objects, scents, sounds, and taste, this interactive performance-lecture searches for plural ways towards home through a more-than-human lens. Flamingoes borrow their colour from what they consume; cuckoos don’t raise their own children, and the Jacobin Cuckoo has likely never flown over the Church of the Jacobins in Toulouse. The Golden Record carries human greetings from the Earth, and the salt in your last meal migrated across geological time.
Can a longing to let go co-exist with a yearning to root?
Created and performed by: Nitish Jain
Dramaturgy: Ine Ubben, Katja Vaghi and Sima Djabar Zadegan
Music: Raaghav Dhingra and Saurabh Levin
Scenography and production assistance: Tiber Yilmaz and Lidia Teleki
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17:30 – 17:50
Genna Leung: Paper Offerings – Gifts for the Departed
Paper Offerings – Gifts for the Departed invites you into a quiet backyard filled with the scent of smoke, candlelight, and stories. Rooted in the Hong Kong ritual of burning paper gifts for loved ones who have passed, this 20-minute sensory performance transforms remembrance into a shared act of creation. Through touch, sound, and breath, the artist guides you into a story — of a paper house once sent to an uncle in the other world – and then gently asks:
What gift would you send, if you could?
Here, each participant folds and shapes a paper gift – a house, a heart, a whisper – before releasing it to fire or water. In this fleeting moment of making and letting go, smoke becomes message, reflection becomes ritual, and every offering becomes a bridge between the seen and unseen.
Created and performed by: Genna Leung
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18:00 – 18:20
Heidi Hornáčková / Lessons from Drought and Tide: Resilient Bodies
Lessons from Drought and Tide: Resilient Bodies is an intimate performance-installation built from a personal archive of materials and plants collected across remote landscapes: coastal ecosystems, arid deserts, and semi-extreme environments. The audience is guided into a shared sensory field with seaweed, stones, desert herbs, and dried plant structures, encountering organisms that endure extreme conditions, where the human body meets non-human strategies of survival. The sharp scent of creosote, salt settling on the skin, and the damp touch of seaweed begin to shape the experience. Resilience here is not framed as strength or endurance alone, but it unfolds as a capacity to remain in relation, across species, materials, and environments and is approached as a practice of listening, adapting, and co-existing.
Amid shifting climates and fragile inner states, between drought and tide, the performance asks: what can we learn from what survives? And how might these lessons be carried within the body? Shifting attention away from the human as central actor towards a porous body, one that learns through contact, exposure, and vulnerability. Echoing phenomena of perception and survival, the body rehearses alternative ways of being, grounded in adaptation and co-existence.
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18:30 – 18:50
Hiva Amini: No Time for Grief
No Time for Grief is a performative gathering that unfolds around a shared table. Through storytelling and the presence of food, the performer invites the audience into an intimate space where personal memories, cultural experiences, and everyday rituals intersect.
The table functions both as a meeting place and as a scenographic element. The food presented during the performance is prepared beforehand by the performer, with additional items arranged as part of the table’s composition. These elements create a visual and sensory landscape that accompanies the storytelling.
During the performance, some of the food is consumed as part of the action. At the end of the piece, the remaining food is shared with the audience, extending the performance into a collective moment of gathering and participation.
Devised by Hiva Amini, Brína Jenček and Jeries AbuJaber.
photo: Adéla Vosičková
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19:15 – 20:00
Lush Blast: Walking Performance
Can dance mend our ties to the land and intimately connect us? LUSH BLAST is a walking performance in an urban park. It explores the relationality between natural, artificial, wild, and domesticated. 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 the audience into a sensual feast and cruel battlefield. After spending time in the Carpathian Wilderness, the choreographers reclaim power as a vital force rather than a tool of control.
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
Set and costume design: Natálie Rajnišová
Production: Dorota Michalak, Alica Minar & col.
Partners: Studio ALTA, Prague (CZ); Bazaar Festival, Prague (CZ); Teatrul Andrei Mureșan, Sfântu Gheorghe (RO); Hellerau, Dresden (DE)
Supporters: Czech State Fund for Culture; Culture Moves Europe; Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic; National Recovery Plan; European Union; Goethe-Institut; City of Prague; Czech-German Future Fund; IDU Prague; PerformCzech; Contemporary Arts Alliance Berlin
Acknowledgements: Erik Baláž, Alina Hrîșcanu, Ondrej Kameniar, Anna Poppa and the team of the Carpathia Foundation, who guided us through the Tatras and Făgăraș Mountains and shared their stories of the wilderness; Carolyn Hall and Matthias Nuß for exchanges on the relationship between science and art.
photo: Michal Hančovský
TICKETS ONLY FOR LUSH BLAST PERFORMANCE
photo: Darja Lukjanenko