wilderness performance
public space

LUSH BLAST:
WALKING PERFORMANCE
(2023-24)

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 and around 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?

CREDITS
Choreography:
Dorota Michalak, Alica Minar

Creation and performance:
Dorota Michalak, Alica Minar, Breanne Saxton, Ola Zielinska

Music: & the romantic horse

Dramaturgy: Maikon K

Text: Katarína Bakosová, Maikon K

Stage design: Natálie Rajnisová

Light research: Raquel Rosildete

Production: Dorota Michalak, Alica Minar & col.

PARTNERS
Studio ALTA in Prague (CZ)

Bazaar Festival in Prague (CZ)

Hellerau - Europäisches Zentrum der Künste in Dresden (DE)

SUPPORT
Czech-German Fund for the Future

State Fund of Culture of the Czech Republic

Bazaar Festival Residency

Hellerau - Europäisches Zentrum der Künste

CAA Berlin

PERFORMANCES
HELLERAU - Kulturgarten Opening, Dresden (DE), 20.05.2023

BAZAAR FESTIVAL - Science Blast Evening, Prague (CZ), 22.03.2024

STUDIO ALTA - Alta Zeny, Prague (CZ), 02.07.2024

STUDIO ALTA, Prague (CZ), 11.10.2024