Alica Minar & Dorota Michalak
Alica Minar and Dorota Michalak's choreography is based on the earth of the Carpathian Mountains. Can dance reconnect us to the land, to the earth, and create intimacy?
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LUSH BLAST: Tasting the untamed
This dance evening explores the relationship between nature and art, between wilderness and domestication and different cultural representations of nature.
Tree trunks and limbs, crumbling mountains; chains that begin to vibrate. Lyrical songs are interwoven with biting humour and the audience is led through different atmospheres. How much wilderness is still in us and around us?
With their bodies and voices, the performers transform themselves into something that is not human, inviting us to a sensual feast that is also a cruel battlefield. Influenced by their own journey into the wilderness of the Carpathian Mountains, Alica Minar and Dorota Michalak understand power as a life force and not as an instance of (social) control.
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Choreography: Dorota Michalak, Alica Minar
Creation and performance: Dorota Michalak, Alica Minar, Breanne Saxton, Ola Zielińska
Music: Ola Zielińska, Vi Huyen Tranová
Dramaturgy: Maikon K
Set design: Natálie Rajnišová
Light design: Raquel Rosildete, Teres Bartůňková
Production: Dorota Michalak, Alica Minar & col.
Partners: CO.LABS in Brno (CZ), Divadlo Radost in Brno (CZ), Bazaar Festival in Prague (CZ),
Studio ALTA in Prague (CZ), Teatrul Andrei Muresan in Sfantu Gheorghe (RO), Hellerau
Dresden (DE), DOCK ART (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.
Creation and performance: Dorota Michalak, Alica Minar, Breanne Saxton, Ola Zielińska
Music: Ola Zielińska, Vi Huyen Tranová
Dramaturgy: Maikon K
Set design: Natálie Rajnišová
Light design: Raquel Rosildete, Teres Bartůňková
Production: Dorota Michalak, Alica Minar & col.
Partners: CO.LABS in Brno (CZ), Divadlo Radost in Brno (CZ), Bazaar Festival in Prague (CZ),
Studio ALTA in Prague (CZ), Teatrul Andrei Muresan in Sfantu Gheorghe (RO), Hellerau
Dresden (DE), DOCK ART (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.
Dates
April 2025
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